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Former New York Yankees pitcher Hiroki Kuroda returned to Japan's Hiroshima Carp on Monday after seven years in Major League Baseball and having taken a whopping 80 percent pay cut. "But I feel like I'm home," added Kuroda, who accepted a huge reduction in wages to re-sign for the Japanese Central League club after a successful three-year spell in New York. "I felt like this was the right time to come home, and if I was coming back to Japan I wanted it to be with the Carp. "In order to keep my edge I hope to be able to keep the form I showed in the majors and hopefully I can get my fans excited." Kuroda, who pitched for Hiroshima from 1997 to 2007 before joining the Los Angeles Dodgers, has signed a one-year deal worth an estimated $3.3 million.
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