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sports.aol.com - 12/12/2007
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Word yesterday was that Kosuke Fukudome was going to announce his intention to come to America last night and a decision on where he was going to play would be coming shortly after. Quickly doesn't even begin to cover it. Tonight, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that Fukudome has signed a four year contract with the Cubs for somewhere between $45 and $50 million. It's really hard to ...
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... Dome or Fuck You, Do Me works much better, but I'm incredibly immature and childish. His name isn't what matters to the Cubs though, it's the fact that they finally have a left-handed bat to put between Derrek Lee and Aramis Ramirez. The fact he can play right field makes the signing that much better. Still, I have no idea if Fukudome is going to be able to hit. Yes, he had good numbers while playing in Japan, but as my colleague at FanHouse points out, those numbers don't generally translate well to the States . It's really hard to quantify what players coming from Japan are ...
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