Tuffy Rhodes put on his Yomiuri Giants uniform for the first time when he and Brian Sikorski were introduced as the Central League club's new off-season foreign acquisitions at a news conference Friday.
"I'm honored to play for the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants and I'm going to do my best. I'm not here for personal stats but I'm here to win the championship. I'm getting older and time is running out," the 35-year-old Rhodes said.
"This is an incredible team and it's just like playing for the New York Yankees in America. It's my first year, so I'm going to learn just like everybody else and take it one day at a time," he said.