“Who will be the 2023 Hoffman/2024 Ruiz? Aoyagi? Crismatt? Someone else?” – @BlakeIFox I think Koyo Aoyagi is my easy answer. He’s extremely unique, and I think the Phillies like that. They’ll give ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — On his first morning in a major-league clubhouse, on his first trip ever to the United States, Koyo Aoyagi held his phone aloft and snapped a picture of the nameplate above his ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Koyo Aoyagi has been a side-armed right-hander for as long as he can remember. He needed to be, he said. “I couldn’t throw overhand,” Aoyagi joked through his interpreter on Friday ...