Baseball: Chicago White Sox announce addition of slugger Murakami

Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami has agreed to join the Chicago White Sox on a two-year contract worth $34 million, the team announced Sunday.The 25-year-old Murakami is a two-time Central League MVP with the Yakult Swallows and became Japan's youngest Triple Crown winner at 22 in 2022 when he slugged 56 home runs, the second-most in a single Nippon Professional Baseball season.The Kumamoto Prefecture native spent his entire NPB career with the Swallows after joining the Tokyo club in 2018 as their top draft pick.In Chicago, he will wear the No. 5 jersey, according to MLB.com, after weari…READ FULL ARTICLE