Baseball: Japan Sports Agency head weighs in on pitching injury debate

Two weeks after potential major league prospect Roki Sasaki made waves in Japan by not pitching in order to protect his valuable right arm, the head of the Japan Sports Agency has called for reform in Japanese high school baseball.Sasaki, whose fastball has been recorded at 163 kilometers (101.3 miles) per hour and who has been scouted by 20 of the major leagues' 30 teams, was held out of his prefectural championship game, which his school lost.That break with the customs of the tradition-bound world of high school baseball sparked discussion across the nation about whether pitchers should …READ FULL ARTICLE