Overview

• The team said on Oct. 9 via its official site that Greenwell had died at age 62.
• Greenwell was an outfielder who built his profile with Boston before a later stint in Japan with the Hanshin Tigers.
• Regional outlets in Japan, including Hokkaido Shimbun Digital and Nishinippon, relayed the news from a Los Angeles Kyodo dispatch.
• Reports revisited his notable departure from Hanshin, which he previously attributed to a “message from God.”
• Neither the club’s statement nor the Japanese dispatches provided a cause of death.