PHOENIX —
Listed by the Dodgers at 5-foot-10, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is small on paper. The most expensive pitcher in baseball history might be even smaller in person.
“He’s your height,” a colleague told me after watching me stand a couple of feet to the right of Yamamoto on Sunday, when he addressed reporters for the first time this spring training.
I’m 5-8, according to my driver’s license.
For what it’s worth, I thought Yamamoto was a couple of inches taller than me, making him a legitimate 5-10.
That would still make the 25-year-old Yamamoto considerably shorter than the other pitchers the Dodgers have in camp.