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Pretty much everyone agrees that
the 'next big thing' to come out of Japan will be 22-year old Shohei Ohtani. The 6'-4" Ohtani is right-handed pitcher
and a left-handed DH. He has excelled at both in the
Nippon Professional Baseball League with the Nippon Ham Fighters. Presumably, the kid would be a DH with
The Carmine Hose—although that's unclear. It's
also unclear whether the Red Sox are still suffering from
Dice-K-Itis—shying away from laying out big bucks for a Japanese "pitcher". The kid is young, powerful and extremely talented—we say, lay out some cash for him in the upcoming bidding war. He might be the hitter/hurler that
another young Red Sox player turned out to be—a
long time ago.
