It’s two days until the start of spring training in the winter, unless you play for Orix, and start on Feb. 2, or Seibu and start on Feb. 6. As such, players are showing up at their teams’ spring training sites, and there is some news.
On Tuesday, we learned that Franmil Reyes has plans for his Tuesdays, while new Nippon Ham Fighters teammate Kotaro Kiyomiya won’t be doing baseball for a while, while the Yakult Swallows have an unfortunate problem with auto translate on Google.
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Where’s the beef?
That’s what Franmil Reyes wants to know, more specifically, where’s a guy supposed to go to find Korean barbeque on a Tuesday night after a game?
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