MLB exec won't admit he was wrong about White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami for hilarious reason

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During the Major League Baseball offseason, there was a ton of intrigue about where Munetaka Murakami would wind up due to his shaky free agent market.

Teams have concerns about his game translating to the MLB level, but so far, those concerns appear to have been unfounded with Murakami putting up All-Star-level stats.

Jayson Stark of The Athletic shared how one anonymous MLB executive is refusing to admit his concerns about Murakami were wrong, and did so in a hilarious way.

MLB exec has a hilarious reason for refusing to admit he was wrong about Munetaka Murakami

"Maybe I'm just refusing to be wrong," one MLB exec said. "I don't know. Maybe I can admit in, like, a month or a year that I was just an idiot - and I was wrong. I thought he was going to strike out too much. And I didn't think he was going to hit."

There were a lot of worries about Murakami as a hitter, with his high strikeout rate and inconsistencies at the plate being a big reason for teams to potentially stay out of the bidding for Murakami.

Fortunately for the Chicago White Sox, they took the chance, and have been rewarded in a big way this season, as Murakami looks to be proving those doubters wrong.