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Masahiro Tanaka just added an unusual chapter to his baseball narrative, and he sounds fully ready to add another one shortly.
Following a successful seven-year run with the Yankees, the 32-year-old returned to his native Japan to pitch for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, the club with which he established his star power. Historically, Japanese players who take the leap to Major League Baseball have headed home only to write their final chapter, as occurred with the likes of Hiroki Kuroda, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Takashi Saito.