Kikuchi, a huge Kershaw fan, figures to follow Ohtani to the majors
TOKOROZAWA, Japan - The process figures to be repeated next winter, if not the next: another hard-throwing pitcher from Japan becoming available and the Los Angeles Dodgers scrambling to sign him.
Only next time, the Dodgers will have to spend less time educating their target about what they're about. Yusei Kikuchi already knows.
Kikuchi, a left-hander with the Seibu Lions, watches the Dodgers on television every five days - whenever Clayton Kershaw starts.
"He's the pitcher I like the most," Kikuchi said in Japanese.
Maybe Kikuchi's affinity for Kershaw and the Dodgers
