T he Las Vegas Athletics may have found their potential franchise player in Japan after signing 18-year-old Shotaro Morii on Wednesday for a $1.5 million bonus deal. After a saddening end to the ...

18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed Wednesday to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus ...

When the international signing period opened up in January, the Athletics made a bit of a splash, signing two-way star Shotaro Morii out of Japan. The 18-year-old decided to skip the NPB Draft to ...

as another two-way star is making his case in the minors for the Oakland Athletics. The A’s signed 18-year-old Japanese two-way phenom Shotaro Morii this offseason, inking him to a $1.51 million ...

With the Minor League season opening this week, here's where the A’s Top 30 Prospects are projected to start: COMPLETE ATHLETICS PROSPECT COVERAGE ... career started in the Dominican Summer League.

Two young stars — 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii ... a freshman at Stanford, while Morii has a minor league contract with the Athletics. Yamamoto signed a $325 ...

18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed Wednesday to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus ...