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A final dispatch from Tokyo: MLB is trying to expand in Japan. But what about in the other direction... Can Japan’s NPB grow in America? With thoughts from JapanBall Jim Allen Jason Coskrey Yakyu Cosmopolitan and Robert Whiting nytimes.com/athletic/62202…

Craig Breslow’s Red Sox front-office audit resulted in painful cuts. Will the changes bring wins? “There are times where maybe it makes sense to bulldoze through things and then kind of pick up the pieces afterward." Inside a major restructuring: nytimes.com/athletic/62226…

I’m not saying the English version isn’t cool. It’s just that Taiwan’s printing of Winning Fixes Everything is just so cool? Super cool.

As Rays make Steinbrenner Field their new home, Yankees cast a Ruthian shadow dlvr.it/TJnY3G

A video shared by someone on the ground in Tampa, where Stu Sternberg seems to be getting the John Fisher treatment

The A's begin their time in West Sacramento tonight. On what four days in town did and did not show: nytimes.com/athletic/62433…

The first day I visited the new home of the A’s, a sweet stray cat ran up to me. As a Las Vegas band once asked, “Ain’t we all just runaways?”

MLB’s announcement of the most popular jerseys:

What A's owner John Fisher had to say before Opening Day in Sacramento: “Am I nervous about all of this? No, actually, I really am — I’m confident, without being overconfident, and I’m excited about where we’re going.” nytimes.com/athletic/62458…

Well, the ball doesn't not travel in Sacramento

Some Sacramento

You run into the occasional pair of brothers in baseball. Sisters, though… not as often! The A’s-Cubs series was a family showdown: nytimes.com/athletic/62513…

Octavio Dotel was my first favorite player. 11-year-old me was convinced he was the next Pedro. Sometimes when I'm bored, I browse eBay and I was randomly looking at his baseball cards just last night. Such a sad day😢 From Tyler Kepner: nytimes.com/athletic/62653…

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Whatever you're doing, this is better

The oral history of Nomo-mania, 30 years after Hideo Nomo's MLB debut, May 2, 1995. Were it not for a failed physical, it might have all happened in Seattle instead of Los Angeles. nytimes.com/athletic/63270…

A memorable and historic signing of Hideo, who paved the way for so many great players from Japan.

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Great views and bad baseball: After a brutal start, the Colorado Rockies finally face a reckoning nytimes.com/athletic/63487…

I took infield drills with Ron Washington. It was...incredibly hard. A story on my experience with Wash, as he navigates managing the #Angels through another bad season. Read: nytimes.com/athletic/63489…