Yoshitomo Tsutsugo is hoping to go to the major leagues next year, but his focus Friday was on a perceived crisis in his homeland's youth baseball culture.In a press conference at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, the DeNA BayStars captain and cleanup hitter said Japanese youth baseball prioritizes winning competitions at the expense of education.The result, he said, is a population of young baseball players that is decreasing six to 10 times faster than the decline in Japan's birth rate."I've seen small children who want to play baseball quitting because of the excessive train…READ FULL ARTICLE
