LIVE: A’s welcome new righty Shintaro Fujinami

Watch a reside news convention from the Coliseum, the place the A’s are introducing Japanese right-hander Shintaro Fujinami to the media.

Fujinami, who turns 29 in April, spent 10 seasons with Hanshin, posting a 3.41 ERA and 1.35 WHIP in 189 video games pitched, with 1,011 strikeouts and 459 walks throughout 994 1/3 innings. He additionally performed for Team Japan within the 2017 World Baseball Classic, tossing two scoreless innings of reduction with 4 strikeouts in his lone look towards China within the first spherical of the match.

Listed at 6-foot-6 and 180 kilos, Fujinami brings a three-pitch combine that incorporates a fastball that has been clocked at 100 mph, together with a low-90s splitter and sharp slider that has flashed plus up to now.