This story was excerpted from Martín Gallegos’ A’s Beat newsletter, with this edition handled by MLB Pipeline's Jesse Borek.

Japanese phenom and Oakland A's signee Shotaro Morii could be the first MLB two-way player since Shohei Ohtani.

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

There may never be another Shohei Ohtani, but don’t tell that to the Oakland A’s, as they just signed an 18-year-old Japanese star who plays both ways in Shotaro Morii. When Ohtani broke into ...

International signing day is officially here, and Ben Badler is tracking every signing from the start of the 2025 signing period.

Recent multi-million dollar deals have brought the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen to Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates, but far from helping, it seems that these move ...

Plus, Anthony Santander to the Blue Jays, a big international signing for the A's as Shotaro Morii bypassed the NPB draft out of high school in Japan to join an MLB organization, and a few mailbag ...