Eri Yoshida: Still Kicking Ass
A year ago this month, we wrote about a 17-year-old, 114-pound, Japanese knuckleballer named Eri Yoshida.
The Kobe 9 Cruiser made history last March by becoming the first female to ever play professional baseball in Japan. Pretty impressive. These days, Yoshida is still kicking ass and taking names: like fellow knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, whose delivery she studied on video as a young girl.
Yoshida, donning a grey Wakefield t-shirt, met her idol at the Red Sox player development complex on Tuesday.
“I’m impressed,” Wakefield said. “She spun a couple, but for the most part it was very good. She was able to take the spin out of a lot of them and they had quite a lot of movement on them.”
Awesome.
[ESPN] | [The Joy of Sox] | [NESN]
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