Taiwan Player Signs with Yomiuri Giants
Myworld just got back from sunny San Diego so we will have to be brief. A report on the Dominican League and the Puerto Rican League will come on Monday and hopefully before the end of the week myworld will detail the progress of the Giants top prospects. We will also begin “tracking the number ones” for each team, so that will be this week.
http://www.npbtracker.com/ reports on the signing of Chih-Lung Huang by the Yomiuri Giants. A number of major league teams were interested in signing him, but Huang’s dream was to always play in Japan. Interesting that a player would prefer Japan over the major leagues. Perhaps the Japanese two straight championships in the WBC are influencing some players that the NPB could be an alternative to the major leagues. They still don’t pay as well as the major leagues, but until the major league players can prove they can beat the Japanese in the one tournament that professionals play in the NPB can still tout themselves as the superior league. If you go to the Japantimes website they still have the article of the Japanese winning the WBC for the second straight time.
You can also go to http://yakyubaka.com/2009/11/20/yomiuri-giants-sign-chih-lung-huang-to-an-ikusei-contract/ to read about his pitches and his world cup performances.