Seiya Suzuki: The $85 Million Guinea Pig of Globalized Baseball
Seiya Suzuki’s Grand Global Experiment: How One Ballplayer Became a Test Tube for Late-Stage Capitalism It takes a special kind of optimism—or masochism—to sign a five-year deal with the Chicago Cubs in the middle of a pandemic, but Seiya Suzuki did exactly that in March 2022. While the rest of us stockpiled canned beans and…