Japan Series

Americans that are part of Major League Baseaball recently traveled to Japan to play them in the 2014 MLB All-Stars vs. Nippon Professional Baseball, Japan Series.

This year, for the first time in the series history, Japan used their national team Samurai Japan to represent them in the series. Some consider this series, especially for Japan, a tune-up for the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

The MLB All-Stars were not represented by most of the leagues true stars, but they did have many notbale names on the roster. Smaurai Japan ended up winning the series 3 games to 2 with outfielder Yuki Yanagita being named series MVP.

Here were the rosters for both the MLB All-Stars and Samuari Japan

Picture courtsey of bleacher report