Orioles turn to a pair of foreign left-handers

For 14 consecutive seasons, the Baltimore Orioles have triednearly everything to improve. Now, they’re going the foreignroute.Dan Duquette, the Orioles new top baseball man, believes thatone way for the team to get better is to look outside the UnitedStates – for players. Two of Duquette’s first two signings wereleft-handed starters Wei-Yin Chen from Taiwan and Japan’s TsuyoshiWada.Both Chen and Wada are veterans of Japanese baseball, but nowthey have to adjust to U.S. baseball – and do it in the rugged ALEast.Chen and Wada have lockers near each other – with interpretersnearby.For the 31-year-old Wada, who signed a two-year $8.15 millioncontract, he had long had the desire to test his skills at thehighest level“I just saw that Major League Baseball was a completelydifferent world,” Wada said through his interpreter. “Even though Isaw that and went into Japanese baseball, I thought I’d like toplay on an international stage.”Wada isn’t the Orioles’ first Japanese player. Three years ago,the club signed Koji Uehara, who had a rocky start. In Uehara’sfirst season-and-a-half, the team tried him as a starter, but hewas often hurt. After moving him to the bullpen, Uehara was muchbetter – but was traded to Texas last July.Catcher Matt Wieters enjoyed working with… Read full this story

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