SNY’s Ted Berg has an informative blog post about Japanese pitchers who may come over to MLB for the 2008 season (found via MetsBlog). Berg discusses the situations of Koji Uehara, Hiroki Kuroda, Kenshin Kawakami, Hitoki Iwase, Masahide Kobayashi, and Kazumi Saito.
So far only Uehara and Kuroda have been discussed here at MLBTR. I’m planning to dig up some info on Iwase, but the other three guys are new to me.
Japanese position players to have on the radar include outfielder Kosuke Fukudome and shortstop Tomohiro Nioka.
