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Yoshinobu Yamamoto: Dodgers ‘Understand’ WBC Pull as He Commits to Pitch for Japan

With the WBC overlapping Spring Training, Yamamoto said he spoke with the Dodgers before deciding to pitch for Samurai Japan. “The Dodgers understand how big the WBC tournament is in Japan,” he said through an interpreter. “The Dodgers and the WBC… are very important to me equally.” Yamamoto said he’ll “do my best” while still working out hard.