Tanner Scheppers Considers playing in Japan
#######MLB.Com reporter Daniel Paullinh spoke with Greg Genske, the agent for Tanner Scheppers who was the Rangers supplemental first round pick in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft.
According to what Genske told Paulling...
* Scheppers is working out six days a week at the API Institute in Carson, California and is in good shape. There were reports, which Genske said were false, about Scheppers needing shoulder needing surgery about two weeks ago.
* Genske is setting up an audition for Scheppers for about a half dozen Japanese teams within a couple of weeks. There were Japanese scouts who saw Scheppers pitch with the St. Paul Saints. He hasn't decided whether to invite the Rangers to the session. (Genske should know more on Monday.)
* Dr. Lewis Yocum and Keith Meister, according to Genske, have given Scheppers a good bill of health.
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money?
i dunno. consider it a minor league system right? how long can he play in japan before the rangers don’t have his rights anymore? figure he could go ahead and get paid in japan for 2 or 3 seasons then come back? i don’t know how this works.
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by gossamer on Aug 7, 2009 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
This is probably just a move to provide leverage in signing talks, I would imagine.
And if for some strange reason he really would rather play in Japan instead of signing with one of the best developmental/minor league systems in baseball… good riddance. He ain’t getting any younger.
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