Four Red Sox Members to Visit Hawks Camp

Discussion in the NPB News forum

Boston will send 4 members of the Red Sox organization to the Hawks' spring training camp: former minor league manager Jon Deeble, AA Portland (ME) manager Todd Claus, and minor leaguers Justin Sherrod and David Murphy will visit the Hawks' camp in Miyazki for 11 days (starting February 15). The four will interact with Hawks' manager Sadaharu Oh, first baseman Nobuhiko Matsunaka (2004 Pacific League Triple Crown winner and PL MVP), and Hawks' catcher Kenji Johjima.

Red Sox special assistant to GM Theo Esptein said, "This is a great opportunity for our young guys to experience a different culture and learn about Japanese baseball. They will encounter different teaching techinques and philosophies, and I believe the Japanese hitting techinques Murphy and Sherrod will encounter will be productive for them."

[Source - The Japan Times]

Reply to this topic

Previous Topic

Back to Topic List

Top of the page

Next Topic

About

This is a site about Pro Yakyu (Japanese Baseball), not about who the next player to go over to MLB is. It's a community of Pro Yakyu fans who have come together to share their knowledge and opinions with the world. It's a place to follow teams and individuals playing baseball in Japan (and Asia), and to learn about Japanese (and Asian) culture through baseball.

It is my sincere hope that once you learn a bit about what we're about here that you will join the community of contributors.

Michael Westbay
(aka westbaystars)
Founder

Copyright (c) 1995-2024 JapaneseBaseball.com.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Some rights reserved.