Well it's not the MLB but... "A 16-year-old schoolgirl is making a unique pitch to become the first woman to play professional baseball in Japan. High school student Eri Yoshida was drafted by the Kobe 9 Cruise, a professional team in a new independent Japanese league that will start its first season in April. Yoshida throws a side-arm knuckleball and says she wants to follow in the footsteps of Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who has built a successful major league career throwing a knuckleball. Yoshida took part in a tryout held earlier this month and passed with flying colors. The right-hander held male batters hitless for one inning in the tryout and her successful outing helped her become one of the 33 players picked in the draft (Sportsline)."
I really want to see this pitch. You would think it is going to be awesome, since all Asians have crazy deliveries, on top of the fact that she is throwing a sidearm knuckleball. I will be all over the place trying to find the video of this chick, and I'll put it up when I find it. I wonder if the Sox will try to sign her too (since they are already all over Taz)? She could take the Wake's spot, when he retires. I'm just kidding...or am I?
-BMack
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