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Perhaps nobody in the Los Angeles Dodgers' front office watched Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitch in Japan more often than Galen Carr, the longtime scout who now serves as vice president of player personnel.
Last summer, at an Orix Buffaloes road game north of Tokyo, Carr watched Yamamoto unleash a pitch that took even him by surprise: A mid-90s fastball with arm-side run and sink, a two-seamer -- or a sinker, or a shuuto, depending on who you ask -- that sharply deviated from the hellacious four-pitch mix that had made him one of Major League Baseball's most coveted pitchers.