$325M for a Curveball: How Yoshinobu Yamamoto Just Out-earned Micronesia and Became Baseball’s Global Poster Child
The planet’s rotation didn’t pause, stock exchanges didn’t suspend trading, and no emergency UN sessions were convened, yet somewhere between the Sea of Japan and the Pacific a 25-year-old human with a 6-foot frame and a 94-mph fastball quietly shifted the tectonic plates of global sport. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the latest export from Osaka’s baseball factory,…