A pitcher from Myanmar has been signed by a baseball team in Kagawa Prefecture, possibly making him the first player from the Southeast Asian country to join a foreign baseball league.

"I want to throw a pitch in front of all of you as soon as possible. I want to make baseball a major sport in Myanmar," Zaw Zaw Oo, 23, who has joined the Kagawa Olive Guyners team in the independent Shikoku Island League Plus, said Thursday in freshly learned Japanese.

Oo, who hails from Yangon, showed up for news conference Thursday wearing his country's formal "taikpon" jacket.