Former Blue Jays slugger Randy Ruiz staying in Japan — for now

Several foreign baseball players in Japan already have left the country, or are leaving, because of the mounting disasters there. Other players have requested permission to go. Former major league slugger Randy Ruiz, who most recently played for the Toronto Blue Jays, hasn't reached that point. Yet. Ruiz is staying in a hotel with his team — the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Pacific League — as it trains about 300 miles from its home city, Sendai. It's a port city that was hit particularly hard by earthquakes, along with massive flooding caused by a tsunami. Ruiz was told that his apartment building has been damaged, but he hasn't seen it himself since the catastrophes started. That's probably OK, because Sendai also happens to be about 60 miles from the damaged nuclear reactors at Fukushima. Ruiz says he feels guilty about living in a hotel and getting daily buffets to eat while others struggle to find water to drink. Or worse. But safer is safer. "Earthq...