Red Sox' Japanese Sensation Is Diced by Unknown Oriole
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Orioles outfielder Jon Knott is so unsung he can't be found in the team's media guide, but he dominates Red Sox sensation Daisuke Matsuzaka on Sunday with a home run and a single.
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He likely will never know, nor will Red Sox fans, just how close he came to being traded to Boston.
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com. As Boston Red Sox first basemen Doug Mientkiewicz squeezed the ball in his glove for the final out of the 2004 World Series, you could almost hear a collective
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The rivalry between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees took on an Asian flavor on Monday when three Japanese players met before their exhibition game.
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BALTIMORE - As bad as a Red Sox fan might feel about Daisuke Matsuzaka right now, that's as good as one should feel about Josh Beckett.
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Even the man who built the Red Sox into a World Series champ was amazed by the greeting Daisuke Matsuzaka got at Fenway Park. "Wow," gasped Boston general manager Theo Epstein as he faced a relentless battery of camera flashes, illuminating Fenway's premium club packed with 300 reporters and photographers.
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So it begins, the makeover of the world champion Red Sox. Gabe Kapler yesterday became the first man out when he signed for about $2 million to play next season for the Yomiuri Giants, the Japanese juggernaut that produced home run king Sadaharu Oh and Yankees left fielder Hideki Matsui .
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BOSTON (Sports Network) - The Boston Red Sox signed  Japanese reliever Denny Tomori to a minor-league contract  Tuesday with an invitation to spring training.
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The Boston Red Sox were flying Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to Boston from California on a private plane on Wednesday following contract negotiations, an official at his agent's California offices said.
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The strange, mystical adventures of Daisuke Matsuzaka continue. Japan's megastar, who was anointed as a favorite son in this foreign town because of his array of mesmerizing pitches, his tantalizing potential, and his role as one of the X factors in negating the surging New York Yankees, remains impossible to predict.
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Japanese pitcher Denny Tomori has agreed to a minor league contract with the World Series champion Boston Red Sox.
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NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees got a chance to sign a Japanese pitcher on their second try this offseason, winning the rights Tuesday to Kei Igawa after losing out to the Boston Red Sox two weeks ago for Daisuke Matsuzaka.
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As Daisuke Matsuzaka prepared to fly from Tokyo for an arrival in Los Angeles tomorrow for the final phase of negotiations with the Red Sox, he may not have been aware that interest in his fate extends to the far reaches of the universe.
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Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is set to make  history as the most expensive Japanese player to enter Major  League Baseball after the Boston Red Sox sealed a  record-breaking deal worth a total $103.1 million.
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Japan tunes in to witness creature's birth.
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The country of Japan revels in Ichiro Suzuki's record-breaking season.
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ven the most-heralded Yankee rookies are hazed. Last September, Hideki Matsui slipped into a leopard-skin suit with a matching wide-brimmed hat.