Yu Darvish On Yankees' Radar?

If the Ham Fighters can gauge what they would get as a posting fee, it would make their decision. What if the Yankees offered something like $80M to post and $60M/5yrs to Darvish for the contract? Hard to believe the team would pass that up.

I'd like to see a scouting report on him as well.

he's been scouted by the Angels and Braves since he was in junior high... that's nuts.

6'5" and 185 lbs.. somebody get him a sandwich!

Barroid, you don't know what you're talking about. He's only 21 and he DOMINATED the league he's in. He won their version of the Cy Young. He made 26 starts, had 12 CGs, threw 207 innings, only gave up 123 hits (!), struck out 210, and had an ERA of 1.82. And he's just a kid. He's ten times the prospect that Matsuzaka was. Every team in baseball would want this guy. If he's posted now, at this age, forget it -- the price will be unbelievable.

They would be dumb to post him next year. The posting fee would be ridiculous as the Yank and Red Sox would most likely hit $100 million. The Japanese team would make a ton of money, but look at the kid....he's literally a superstar. He's like the Paris Hilton of baseball over there, except he actually has talent and he's dominating. He also said in that article that he has no intention of leaving Japan as of right now.

If the Japanese teamw ere smart they'd hold onto him for a couple more years and then post him when he's about 25 or 26. They'll still make a fortune, they'll keep him in Japan for another good 4 years, and he will still be a huge hot commodity in the MLB. Win-win situation.

"Since Daisuke Matsuzaka signed for the Boston Red Sox and left Japan for the United States of America, attention has been focused on Yu Darvish to help keep up the popularity of baseball in Japan. As a young star in Japanese baseball Darvish is expected to fill the void left by Matsuzaka’s departure. Unlike Matsuzaka, Darvish has told the Japanese press that he has no intention of seeking a move to America anytime in the future."

-From his wikipedia page.

"The ratios are nothing to get excited about, especially the K/BB mark of 1.80, which illustrates the biggest problem with the young man's game. He features a fastball in the low to mid 90s, which he can locate in all the zones. His slider and curve are both plus pitches, but he can't always put them in a good spot. While the fastball is live, the breaking pitches are occasionally wild. When he's missing the breaking stuff, he gives up walks. If he relies too heavily on the fastball to make up for his poor control with the offspeed pitches, he gets hit. Once Darvish is consistently able to hit his spots and throw strikes with the breaking balls, he will be on top of the world. He's that good. Recently, Trey Hillman said that he believed that Darvish is ahead of where Matsuzaka was at 20. He thinks Darvish may one day be better than the Red Sox new ace. I don't completely agree with that, although I think he would make a fine #1 pitcher in the Majors too, given a bit more refinement and experience."

from his youtube vid he looks like he has a fastball close to the effectiveness of dice k's, maybe even better control of it. his slider is nasty, randy johnson esque. thats a pretty bad curveball though

Here is the link to the article I quoted, good info on some other potential MLB guys over in Japan, including a lot of them discussed this offseason.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/asia/columns/story?columnist=neel_eric&id=2766756

last offseason the Red Sox were torched by everyone, especially Yankee fans, for selling out 51 million to talk to Dice K. NOw all of a sudden its a great investment to throw more then that to talk to this guy. Can you say hypocrites??

His blood type is A.

"my prediction for darvish is john maine."

I guess that means he should probably just stay in Japan.

metsrule08i dont know what your are talking about... chek it out, his 2007 k/bb ratio was more like 4/1 not 1.8....

i can see a good pitcher in that video.... i dont know about the numbers.... in that video there is something that stands out above all things.... that strike zone in japan is HUUUUGGGEEEE

gem, his delivery looks fluid because they ain't 6-5 tall and lanky. Tomo ohka and okajima don't look so fluid do they? They ain't half persian who scored himself a 19 yo jap "idol" aka starlet and got her pregnant either.

He recently "renounced" his iranian citizenship and declared himself Japanese. See what money does? even a guy with a rich sugar daddy from an "axis of evil" can play baseball in Japan, one of the most xenophobic yet industrialized country in the history of mankind. His dad probably flew in, bought a jap wife (probably loved his money too) and used benjamins as his fingerprint when he passed custom. Ain't this a ball?

There's little chance Darvish gets moved over here anytime soon. The Fighters aren't one of the clubs in dire financial straits right now. They'll hang onto him, then probably flip him in a posting deal when he's a year or two from free agency if they decide he can still bring a Matsuzaka-sized windfall.

Maybe it's just me, I think it comes off as a little obnoxious when people *gush* uncontrollably. Considering that Matsuzaka was proclaimed umpteen times to be the best pitcher on the planet, with 20 different pitches he could put anywhere at any time, guaranteed to win Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award, you'd think people would temper their enthusiasm a tad and be less militant.

"that strike zone in japan is HUUUUGGGEEEE"

The zone is a little bigger for him becuz he's a star.

Not that this doesn't happen in the US right? (cough cough MADDUX cough cough GLAVINE cough cough clemens cough ahem....whoa, dont know what that was....)

In 2010 th mets,yankees and red sox will probably give a posting fee of 100 millon dollars. At least around there. But at 22 by then it will be worth it. 3x better than dice k.