Who is the next? Top Japanese baseball players enter the major leagues every year. Matsuzaka played the first season in MLB this year. Some players who become a free agent want to join the MLB team next year. The best player of them is Fukudome, 30, an outfielder of Chunichi Dragons which won in the Japan Series.
Kosuke Fukudome is a combination of Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui. He will hit more homeruns than Ichiro and send more hit than Matsui. As for an outfielder, his ability is as good as Ichiro.
Fukudome was focused when he was a high-school students. He was picked by seven teams of twelve in the draft, although he rejected the pick and entered Chunichi 3 years later.
He played Olympic games and WBC.
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