Women are breaking the glass ceiling everywhere. First Sarah Palin now Eri Yoshida was signed by the Kobe 9 Cruise of an independent Japanese baseball league.
Yoshida, a right-hander who is 5 feet and 114 pounds, throws a sidearm knuckleball and wants to emulate Boston Red Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
Yoshida threw a hitless inning against male batters during a tryout this month and was among 33 players picked in the draft.
A sidearm knuckleball sounds like a pretty scary pitch to hit as well. This is a perfect pitch for a 5 foot tall, 16 year girl because you don't need to overpower anyone with a knuckler. She can throw it at like 40 miles per hour and guys will fall out of their shoes swinging at it. If she can pick up a slider or a fastball (or any kind of consistent change of pace pitch) then she would be a scary reliever. She's cute as a bugs ear too.
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