Hype can get lost in translation

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This article discusses scouting and the hype surrounding many of the players going to the Majors from Japan and Asia. Players like Ichiro lived up to the hype. Players like Kazuo Matsui didn't. Then there's Hideki Matsui who is somewhere in between.

If scouting baseball players were an exact science, Ruben Rivera would have fulfilled his promise as the second coming of Mickey Mantle -- instead of being known as the guy who stole Derek Jeter's glove and drifted into oblivion without cashing in on eBay.

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[Full Article: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/asia/columns/story?columnist=crasnick_jerry&id=2766698]

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