With this yr’s MLB free agent market enlivened by worldwide gamers, Ben Lindbergh talks to 3 visitors about three baseball-rich international locations. First, Jeeho Yoo of the Yonhap Information Company joins to debate the response in South Korea to Jung Hoo Lee 이정후’s signing, Shin-Soo Choo 추신수’s forthcoming retirement, the legendary profession of Choi Dong-won, and the continued reckoning with bullying within the KBO and Korean tradition at giant. Then (44:21) Ben talks to NPB historian Rob Fitts about trailblazing Japanese pitchers Eiji Sawamura and Masanori Murakami, and the way baseball can be completely different if Japanese gamers had entered MLB earlier. Lastly (1:12:02), Ben brings on Sami Khan, co-director of The Final Out, a documentary about three Cuban gamers who hoped to make the majors, to debate their harrowing defections and the way a expertise exodus affected Cuban baseball.
Audio intro: Andy Ellison, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Audio outro: Ian Phillips, “Successfully Wild Theme”
Hyperlink to Yoo on Lee
Hyperlink to Yoo on Lee 2
Hyperlink to Yoo on Lee 3
Hyperlink to Yoo on Lee 4
Hyperlink to Yoo on Choo
Hyperlink to Yoo on Fedde
Hyperlink to different Fedde article
Hyperlink to Choi Dong-won wiki
Hyperlink to Choi Dong-won Award wiki
Hyperlink to Yoo on An’s bullying
Hyperlink to Yoo on An 2
Hyperlink to An scouting report
Hyperlink to data on Babcock firing
Hyperlink to data on Peters firing
Hyperlink to volleyball twins article
Hyperlink to Okay-pop bullies
Hyperlink to Mel Corridor article
Hyperlink to Mel Corridor wiki
Hyperlink to Rakuten bullying
Hyperlink to Range League EW wiki
Hyperlink to stream Range League
Hyperlink to translators EW episode
Hyperlink to baseball deadening article
Hyperlink to KBO guidelines modifications
Hyperlink to Yomiuri baseball cheers
Hyperlink to Rob’s web site
Hyperlink to Rob’s SABR web page
Hyperlink to Sawamura wiki
Hyperlink to Sawamura Award wiki
Hyperlink to posting system explainer
Hyperlink to EW Episode 1311
Hyperlink to EW Episode 1621
Hyperlink to EW Episode 1816
Hyperlink to Sugar wiki
Hyperlink to Ballplayer: Pelotero wiki
Hyperlink to Cuba-NPB/KBO article
Hyperlink to submit on Rodríguez defection
Hyperlink to article on Rodríguez FA
Hyperlink to article on Arocha
Hyperlink to The Final Out trailer
Hyperlink to The Final Out web site
Hyperlink to Q&A with the doc stars
Hyperlink to ESPN on Dominguez
Hyperlink to article on Cuban baseball decline
Hyperlink to ESPN on Cuba and the WBC
Hyperlink to moist ft, dry ft wiki
Hyperlink to 2018 MLB deal
Hyperlink to scuttled MLB deal
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