Finding and identifying talented young players is a big part of the game of baseball.
But as the 2009 season is showing early on, there's no substitute for experience.
Hanshin's Tomoaki Kanemoto and Orix's Tuffy Rhodes have taken Japanese baseball by storm this year with numbers that put their younger peers to shame.
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