(I will die for this man if he can hit above the Mendoza Line)

Feels incredibly low risk for the Sox and potentially high reward for Murukami himself given he gets to re-enter the market.

Total prove it deal. I love it for Chicago.

He’ll likely play 1st & Vargas at 3rd. Lenyn Sosa is the odd man out & will most likely be traded imo.

GG

Go put ketchup on your hot dog though🤣

I was watching this like "c'mon that's so soft...oh...well it's still not so bad...oh....uhhhh...."

Around September, during batting practice at an indoor training facility, a team member was tossing picked-up balls into a basket. The manager told the player, “Don’t throw them in,” and then threw three balls from a distance of about two meters, which struck the player on the buttocks.

After the game, the manager ordered the student to walk 8.4 miles from the stadium back to the dormitory. Given that it was a summer evening and the physical and mental strain would be significant, a coach questioned the instruction, put the student on the bus, and had him clean the campus.

On the morning of August 13, as team members were traveling by bus to a prefectural tournament, one student was delayed because it took extra time to prepare game-related materials and missed the bus. A faculty adviser who remained at the school drove the student to the stadium.

After losing the final of the Okinawa regional qualifier for the Summer Koshien on July 13, the manager said to all players who were crying in frustration, “Die. Don’t cry.” The manager reportedly had routinely instructed the team to avoid breaking down in tears even after a loss.

(A lot of our best teams were trapped in runner-up hell during the Mickey Mantle era.)