Sunday, December 21, 2008

JAPANESE TEAM SIGNS TWO CHINESE MAINLANDERS

Two players from the China Baseball Association’s Tianjin Lions have signed preliminary minor league contracts with Japan’s Yokohama BayStars for 2009. Twenty-year-old infielder Wang Jing-Chao and 25-year-old pitcher Chen Wei inked interim agreements to play in the BayStars system next year on November 30 at the Tianjin Sports Hotel prior to a December 12 press conference in Yokohama.

The Tianjin Lions are the reigning three-time champions of the CBA, but went winless in three games at last month’s Asia Series in Tokyo. A number of Lions players represented China in last summer’s Olympics in Beijing.

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