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Roki Sasaki Yoshinobu Yamamoto Shohei Ohtani Rōki Sasaki Transition to MLB Nippon Professional Baseball Cultural Adaptation Munetaka Murakami Tomoyuki Sugano Ichiro Suzuki NPB to MLB Transition MLB Transition Seiya Suzuki Shota Imanaga Cultural Impact Yu Darvish Impact on MLB Kenta Maeda Ohtani's Impact MLB Aspirations Murakami's Impact Kazuma Okamoto High School Players Major League Baseball South Korean Players Cultural Integration Career History NPB MLB Experience Ichiro Suzuki's Impact Ohtani vs Sugano Aoyagi Kōyō Sasaki Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Player Transfers Yu Darvish's Impact Shontaro Morii MLB History Ohtani's Legacy Recruitment Challenges Masahiro Tanaka Tatsuya Imai MLB Recruitment Hideo Nomo Murakami MLB Impact Comparison to Other Pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki Hiroto Saiki Opening Day Starters MLB Debut Rising Stars Yusei Kikuchi

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Yamamoto’s October dominance renews scrutiny of New York’s $300 million ceiling.

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