When you've been in the game a long time, you learn a thing or two.
Longtime Mariners head athletic trainer Rick Griffin shared his thoughts on Japanese players in the Major League Baseball and their physical traits before Thursday's game between Seattle and the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome.
Griffin, whose Mariners have had eight Japanese players, including their current three men, started off by saying every player is different and it's difficult to summarize the characters of the Japanese players because every Japanese's got a different type of body.