PHOENIX -- The biggest wild card of the spring for the Dodgers is starting pitcher Kenta Maeda, who took on a lot of risk in making the leap from Japan to Major League Baseball and is in the early stages of making the necessary adjustments.
The feeling out process comes with a large audience, however, with a few dozen reporters and photographers following his every move, so far every single day of camp.
Maeda is used to the coverage, having been a star in Japan, a two-time winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award, the Central League's equivalent of the Cy Young Award, for the Hiroshima Carp.