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brb Boston
>> Anonymous
YOU BROKE GENTREMAN AGREEMENT
>> Anonymous
>>487368
This is blown out of proportion, it's not like from now on all the Japanese players are going to jump to the MLB. Most Japanese players want to stay in Japan (Yu Darvish) also the Japanese players that do make the jump from the MLB are getting paid just about the same if not less than the NPB players.

Find out some info on the Red Sox contract for Tazawa or who I nicknamed Taz (original name DO NOT STEAL) because I don't speak moonspeak:

-3 year contract at $1 million a year.
-Starts off in AA/AAA (the translator didn't work so good.)
-Major League contract.
>> Anonymous
>>487378
http://www.npbtracker.com/2008/11/details-on-bostons-offer-to-tazawa/

Some highlights:

* 3 year, $3M contract (that’s $1M/year)
* Major League contract
* start off at class AA
* remain a starter
* personal translator

The dollar figure is a little surprising — there were numerous reports of a $6M offer earlier in the day. Maybe there is a bonus or incentive package that was left off of this report. We’ll learn more over the next couple days.

That site is pretty good if you want to follow Japanese baseball.
>> Anonymous
>* 3 year, $3M contract (that’s $1M/year)

Oh,I get it. Thank God that wasn't on the test.
>> Anonymous
>>487380

Still, most players will want to go to MLB, much like the decent Australian roundy-ball players go off to Europe.
>> Anonymous
>>487405Still, most players will want to go to MLB, much like the decent Australian roundy-ball players go off to Europe.

And its gets around the posting system. Posting doesn't make much sense for the player itself. It eats into his contract. The Red Sox had to pay over 40 million for Dice-K's rights. If they didn't, the Red Sox would have given Dice-K's over 75 million instead of the 50 million contract he gotten instead.
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how many years till she replaces wakefield?
>> Anonymous
>>487433

Her face looks chapped. And why isn't in a baseball uniform? I guess she doesn't have much of a figure.
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NPB > MLB

Bobby Valentine agrees.
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>>487363
Hey bro
>> Anonymous
>>487363
brb mediocreville (he'll fit right in)

>Tazawa, who stands 5 feet, 10 inches — “5-11 if you really like him,” Wilson said — will get a major league deal this winter but is unlikely to make it to the majors during that first season.

>He has good command of his fastball and slurve, but he lacks velocity, stamina and the ability to keep the ball down. The talk of a deal worth as much as $4 million is testimony not to Tazawa’s talent, but to the soaring appreciation of Japan’s game…The right-hander would have gone in the first round of Nippon Professional Baseball’s recent draft, but that is a long way from being ready for the majors.

>At 22, Tazawa is unlikely to throw much harder than he does now; his fastball barely tops 90 mph when he is rested, and he struggled to hit 88 mph at the end of last season. In Class A or Double-A, Tazawa likely will get hit harder and harder as the season wears on.

>Because he knows what he’s doing against corporate league hitters here, there is a chance Tazawa will make adjustments, although [Isao] Ojimi is a skeptic. The Mets scout believes the pitcher’s body is too stiff to allow him to keep the ball down in the zone and Tazawa lacks the smarts and toughness to hang in and learn the lessons needed to apply his talent in the majors.

>>487625
MAI TWEEN BLUDDAH!