Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki (center) works out with teammates on the first day of Nippon Professional Baseball's spring training in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Wednesday. | KYODO
Marines pitcher Roki Sasaki (center) works out with teammates on the first day of Nippon Professional Baseball’s spring training in Ishigaki, Okinawa Prefecture, on Wednesday. | KYODO

Nippon Professional Baseball’s first day of official training began Wednesday across southern Japan amid relaxed coronavirus countermeasures and an air of anticipation ahead of March’s World Baseball Classic.

Samurai Japan, which will begin its WBC training camp in Miyazaki on Feb. 17, is expected to field a dream team led by MLB stars Yu Darvish and Shohei Ohtani and including Japan’s youngest perfect-game pitcher, Roki Sasaki, and its youngest Triple Crown-winning slugger, Munetaka Murakami.

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Source : Baseball – The Japan Times

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