CNN's Talk Asia: Japanese hurler Yu Darvish takes the mound
Both on the rubber and off, baseball player Yu Darvish is ahead in the count
Yu Darvish hurling a pitch against Korea during the 2009 World Baseball Classic in Los AngelesCNN's Talk Asia this week features 23-year-old Japanese baseball player Yu Darvish of the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He's been called the greatest pitcher in Japan, and enjoys an almost cult following among Japanese baseball fans and drooling women (owing to his exotic good looks).
Darvish has shown the potential to be the best Japanese pitcher in Major League Baseball, but hasn't expressed any interest in leaving Japan for the Majors. Were he to ever choose to make the leap across the Pacific, he could join the likes of Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, and Daisuke Matsuzaka.
You can watch his interview this week on CNN International this at any of the times below.
CNN's Talk Asia
ALL TIMES GMT
Wednesday, Sep 23: 13.30
Thursday, Sep 24: 04.30
Saturday, Sep 26: 12.00, 21.30
Monday, Sep 28: 00.30
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