Eleven years before Shohei Ohtani captured the attention of American baseball fans by agreeing to a minor league deal, Takashi Saito walked the same path, but with none of the fanfare.Cast off by the Yokohama (now DeNA) BayStars, the right-hander won a spring training invite in his bid to sample major league competition before retiring. Although he failed to win a job on the Los Angeles Dodgers' Opening Day roster at the age of 36, Saito finished 2006 as the club's closer and made the National League All-Star team the following season.Now a Pacific Rim adviser for the San Diego Padres, Sait…READ FULL ARTICLE