A day after their biggest star suffered left-thigh muscle strain, the Nippon Ham Fighters indicated Sunday that slugging ace pitcher Shohei Otani will be out for around six weeks.Otani, who hurt his left leg trying to beat out an infield single on Saturday, rested at the team's hotel in Osaka on Sunday and afterward will move to the club's minor league facility in Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture.Otani, who has been playing with a bad right ankle, had been instructed by the team not to run all out or land on a base with his right foot."I haven't spoken to him," said Fighters manager Hideki Kuriya…READ FULL ARTICLE
