Yankees break the seal on the Chinese Baseball Market.

[Cooper]

Yankees sign two 19 year olds out of China

 

It's interesting to me that the Yankees were the first team to go into China to find talent. With the enormous population, I'd imagine there's quite a bit of potential in China, and probably the logical place for the next big import explosion of talent. I'm sure there's lots of folks interested in how these two kids turn out.

 

Here's another link from their webpage that has more information/reaction.

 

 

Edit to add second link.

[JoeHova]

That appears to be misleading. I saw another website that pointed out that the Mariners signed a guy from China a few years back. He didn't work out, but he played 2 years in the AZ league.

[DHonks]

Are the Yankees acting as ambassadors, seeing as they have relations with both countries named China