Hanshin Tigers to meet with Hiroyuki Kobayashi tomorrow
by Gen on Jan.19, 2011 @ 9:00 pm, under NPB
Team president Nobuo Minami told reporters today that the club will be meeting with Hiroyuki Kobayashi at a hotel in Osaka some time tomorrow. Minami and Akinobu Mayumi are expected to attend the meeting. A multi-year deal is supposedly already on the table.
Minami: "We'll meet with him directly and have our final say. Being able to sit down [with Kobayashi] is good news for the Tigers."
Mayumi: "I'd like for him to wear a Tigers uniform."
January 20th, 2011 on 12:13 pm
This would be AWESOME. A victory rotation of Kubota -> Kobayashi -> Kyuji would be insane. I just hope that they don’t take a page from the old JFK days and start calling them “KKK”…
January 20th, 2011 on 2:08 pm
It wouldn’t surprise me if they did, but it seems like it’ll be KKF.