Japanese Ball and Low-Hanging Fruit for Twins?

[Dave Borton]

The WS game 7 had an audience of 51MM, with 12 million alone in Japan. Baseball has played the cards <sic> correctly with extracting the best players from Japan.

I see greater penetration into Japan in the future. Might the Twins capitalize on any of this? Have to do workarounds on the posting fees, I realize (age/service).

Anyone follow Japanese ball? Have insights? How about Tokyo Marlins and Yokohama Rays.

Korean/Mexican ball. No separate figures I could find but this years series has to have a positive, longer term effect on the game's popularity. Growth will come, long after I am pushing up daisies.

[Linus]

To me a bigger question is what are the Twins doing in the Latin market?  They have been abysmal in this critical area of talent acquisition. 

[Dave Borton]

17 hours ago, Linus said:

To me a bigger question is what are the Twins doing in the Latin market?  They have been abysmal in this critical area of talent acquisition. 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5197059/2024/01/12/twins-latin-american-scouting-roman-barinas/?source=athletic_user_shared_article_copylink&smid=url-share-ta

Long article on Roman Barinas, hired this year to head up the Twins Latin America recruiting. Barinas came into ball through the back door with the Dodgers and has done every staff position in ball except playing ball.

Time will tell.

 

[Doctor Wu]

Japan and the Latin American countries are certainly fertile ground for finding prospects. I hope that the Twins actually and actively explore those territories.