Baseball: Former Fighters pitcher Martin credits critical Japan lessons

Back at Tokyo Dome for the first time in over a year Texas Rangers pitcher Chris Martin on Saturday credited Japanese baseball with smoothing his path to the major leagues.Martin is in Japan with a team of major league stars to play a six-game series against Japan's national team, Samurai Japan, after his first season with the Rangers.Martin came to Japan in 2016 to pitch for the Nippon Ham Fighters of Japan's Pacific League at the age of 29, after pitching in 40 big league games over two seasons with the Colorado Rockies and New York Yankees."I learned what I needed to do to be ready," he …READ FULL ARTICLE