Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Nakajima A SS Option For Sox?

One of the supposed benefits of hiring Bobby Valentine was a greater access to prime Japanese players—since he's considered an icon over there. With that in mind, we saw that 29-year old shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima was just posted by his Japanese team—the Seibu Lions. Given the need for a young, steady, all-around shortstop on the Red Sox, maybe Bobby can pull some strings. Nakajima has a .313 lifetime average and a career .385 OBP. He's also clouted 75 HRs in just four years. He's known to be a target of the Evil Empire, but, then so was Dice-K.
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