One of the wonderful things about baseball is how many people from all over the world play the game. MLB rosters have players from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Columbia, Australia, Korea and others.
Today’s trivia question is: Can you name the 11 players on the Mets’ all-time roster who were born in Japan? Leave your guesses in the comments section and I’ll give the answers next week.
#1: masato yoshi #2: Tsuyoshi Shinjo #3: hideo nomo #4: kaz matsui
#5: ryota igarashi #6: hisanori Takahashi #7:Ken Takahashi #8 Taiki Kawasaki
thats all i could remember
Forgive the spelling if I mess up (I’m not bother getting checking that now), and I wont get them all but here goes:
Masato Yoshii
Shuyosi Shinjo
Hideo Nomo
Dae Kim Soo?? (you the one who git a triple of Randy Johnson)
Kaz Matsui
Ryota Igarashi
Hisanori Takahasi
ANSWERS
The first 7 listed by juan gonazlez are correct. He gets partial credit for #8, whose name was Takashi Kashiwada
The other three are — Satoru Komiyama (the Japanese Greg Maddux!), Kaz Ishii and Shingo Takatsu.
Dae-Sung Koo was from South Korea.