Teenage Japanese pitching phenom Yusei Kikuchi has scheduled a press conference for tomorrow to announce his attentions. Kikuchi just completed a tour of American teams that are interested in his services, which included the Mets and is now making his decision just four days prior to the Japanese draft.According to the Japanese papers he is learning towards remaining in Japan but those papers tend to see what they want to. I do believe he will remain in his homeland, it's traditional for players to start their careers in Japan and then make the move to the US, for a kid allowing his parents to make decisions for him, I can't see him breaking tradition.
The most recent reports out of Japan suggest that Kikuchi is going to start his professional career in Japan, but we’ve seen a pattern of Japanese media outlets hearing what they want to hear with regards to the highly-regarded lefty. But Nikkan Sports is usually pretty reliable, and they too have just published a report saying that Kikuchi is staying in Japan. So we’ll see what happens. source NPB Tracker
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