For some of Major League Baseballs best players, the games wont end in October this year. All-Stars Robinson Cano, Adam Jones, Albert Pujols and Yasiel Puig will highlight a group of Major Leaguers, led by Rangers manager Ron Washington, who will travel to Japan in November to take part in a five-game All-Star Series against Japans national team, Samurai Japan. The rest of the Major League All-Star roster will be announced at a later date. The All-Star Series 2014 marks the 11th such All-Star Series, though its the first since 2006. It will be the 36th time overall, dating back to 1908, that a team of big leaguers has traveled to Japan for exhibition games. The five-game format that will be used this fall was first introduced during that last All-Star Series in 2006, which was swept by a Major League team that included All-Stars such as Bronson Arroyo, Ryan Howard, John Lackey, Joe Mauer, Joe Nathan, Jose Reyes, David Wright and Chase Utley. The All-Star Series will feature three games in Tokyo (Nov. 14-16), bookended by one game each in Osaka (Nov. 12) and Sapporo (Nov. 18). In addition to the five-game All-Star Series, the Major League team will also participate in a pair of exhibition games -- one on Nov. 11 against the Hanshin Tigers and Yomiuri Giants in Koshien and the other on Nov. 20 versus Team Japan in Okinawa. Paul Casella is a reporter for MLB. Follow him on Twitter @paul_casella. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 21:49:59 +0000
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