Passed Ball... good question. The main reason why Major League Baseball teams and players don't want to play the Japanese teams is because Japan is far away. It would take players 16 hours to fly to Japan to play these games and they would get really tired. And a player will tell you during the season that conserving your energy anyway you can do it is key. If Japan was located somewhere closer, like Mexico, they might do this. But as it stands right now, Japan is too far away for this to happen.

