Foreign Player Additions: Randolph, Soriano
Couple of player acquisitions to pass on here…
- Yokohama has picked up perennial non-roster invitee Stephen Randolph. Yokohama has been looking to add pitching all year, and tried to get Ryan Sadowski back in June. Randolph, who was born in Okinawa, has a 5.52 era in 155 career MLB innings. He hasn’t been effective at AAA this year.
- Hiroshima has signed pitcher Dioni Soriano to an ikusei contract. Gwynar found out that Soriano had been playing in the Island League this year. I wasn’t able to dig up much beyond that, but I did find his page on a Facebook clone. We’ll see if Dioni turns out to be as good as the last Soriano the Carp had.
With the player acquisition deadline nearing (July 31 JST), we should see one or two other acquisitions.
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29/07/2009 at 1:10 pm Permalink
so, Japanese players have to be drafted out of indie leagues, but foreign players in the same leagues can just be plucked out eh, interesting.
29/07/2009 at 6:55 pm Permalink
Yeah, I hadn’t even thought of that. Kind of the same situation as I was railing about last week.
29/07/2009 at 8:40 pm Permalink
Hochevar was drated out of an Indie league. Foreign players in Indie leagues in the US are FAs. So, nothing special about this.
But the MLB draft has a “residence” requirement. What if those foreign indie players live in the US? Are they subjected to the draft?
31/07/2009 at 6:37 am Permalink
What if those foreign indie players live in the US? Are they subjected to the draft?
Hochevar was drafted out of a indie league, but if I’m not mistaken the independent league club sells the contract of the player to the specific MLB team as in this case a foreign player in one of the numerous independent leagues. I think the question has to do with where their permenant residence is. Though, I dont understand the draft enough to know so.
31/07/2009 at 6:40 am Permalink
so, Japanese players have to be drafted out of indie leagues
Yeah, otherwise could you see the anger and more stupid rules that NPB impose if they could sell their player’s contract to a NPB team or a MLB team like in the U.S.?