Baseball Toaster (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
Highly coveted Japanese pitching star Yu Darvish re-signed with the Nippon Ham Fighters for a reported 270 million yen (about $2.8 million) for one year. Darvish went 16-4 with a 1.88 ERA and 208 Ks for the Fighters, who finished in third place.
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | 23/11/2008
Don't look for Yu Darvish to be pitching in America any time soon. Patrick at NPB Tracker speculates that Darvish might actually be thankful for Junichi Tazawa taking some of the MLB spotlight and speculation off of him. Darvish told a crowd of over 43,000 fans that he "isn't dreaming of Major League Baseball," and wants to win 200 games in his Japanese career. He's got a ways...
MLB Trade Rumors (Free subscription) | yesterday
Links for Monday... Fire Brand of the American League did a Q&A with ESPN's Peter Gammons. Some good stuff in there. A few notes from Patrick Newman at NPB Tracker. The Hanshin Tigers are reportedly considering offering $20MM over four years to Kenshin Kawakami, while Yu Darvish had his contract renewed at $2.7MM for next year. Joel Sherman of the New York Post says the Mets want to add one...
River Ave. Blues (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... because Cashman has some moral issue with the Japanese league! I tell you one thing, we better get Yu Darvish when posting time is up. It is hard to believe that Cashman should shoulder the blame for the fact that the Red Sox are the first team to offer Tazawa a contract. Never mind the fact that the Yankees could still get involved. Never mind the fact that the Red Sox haven’t actually...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 13/11/2008
... long as we are dashing rumors and hopes, Jacob, from everything I have been told, Japanese phenom Yu Darvish will not get posted and stays in the Far East next year. So you have to come up with a new plan for 2009.Wednesday’s free drink chip goes to Tom in Fla. for his Paul Byrd comment.I am in the process of writing a free-agent/economy piece for Friday, the first day teams can make offers...
Zell's Pinstripe Blog (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Junichi Tazawa is now available to Major League Baseball teams. Tazawa was passed over in Thursday’s draft of amateur players in Japan. They say that his fastball reaches 97mph on the radar gun. Gene “Stick” Michael went over to Japan to see Yu Darvish pitch back in September. The Yankees aren’t expected to post [...]
