Hideki Matsui Is Named Manager Of The Yomiuri Giants

Hideki Matsui will manage the club where he became a star. Reports Friday named the former Yankees slugger — the 2009 World Series MVP — as the new manager of Japan’s Yomiuri Giants, the team he played for before coming to the majors in 2003.

Hideki Matsui is going home to manage. Reports on Friday named Matsui as the new manager of the Yomiuri Giants — the Tokyo club where he starred for a decade before joining the New York Yankees in 2003. The appointment was carried in ESPN’s news feed with Associated Press reporting on Friday.

Matsui hit 332 home runs for Yomiuri and won three Japan Series titles there before crossing the Pacific. In New York he became the first Japanese-born player to win a World Series MVP award, driving in six runs in the Yankees’ clinching Game 6 in 2009. He takes over the most famous job in Japanese baseball — at the club that made him famous first.

The appointment, in brief

Matsui named manager of the Yomiuri Giants (reported Friday, ESPN/AP)
As a player at Yomiuri: 332 home runs, three Japan Series titles, before joining the Yankees in 2003
With New York: 2009 World Series MVP — the first Japanese-born player to win the award

Hideki Matsui Is Named Manager Of The Yomiuri Giants

The appointment, in brief

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