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Inside the White Sox's '1% Chance' and Hot Start for Slugger Munetaka Murakami

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When White Sox special assistant David Keller made his annual scouting trip to Japan last August, Munetaka Murakami was among a list of top targets. But the odds of the White Sox actually signing the 25-year-old Nippon Professional Baseball superstar? "I thought it was like a 1% chance," Keller, who runs Chicago's international scouting department, told me this week during the team's series against the Anaheim Angels. "Realistically, just given who he is, the talent level, the system that I still felt was forming [with the White Sox]. All of those things, him desiring to com...