Yu Darvish 21, Is widely considered to be the best pitcher in the Japanese baseball league. COULD (stressing could) be headed to the Majors in 2009.
According to MLBTradeRumors: The Cubs,Yankees, Dodgers and Mets have some interest should Darvish makes his way to the US. As well the Angels and Braves attempted to sign Darvish out of High School.
Stats:
In 3 Career Seasons with the Nippon Ham Fighters:
32-15 2.53 ERA 377 SO
His best season of his short 3 year career so far was 2007:
15-5 207.2 IP 9HR 123H 210SO 1.82ERA
More info on Yu Davish:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_Darvish
MLB Trade Rumors:
http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2008/01/yu-darvish-on-y.html
Very interesting to see where Mr. Darvish ends up if he in fact does jump to the US. After seeing how much money the premier Japanese players have gotten from US Teams, it will be interesting to see if does in fact come to the US.
Poll
With the recent signings of big name Japanese Players in the US, How interested are you in Japanese Baseball?
Very Interested (21 votes)
Slightly Interested (27 votes)
Not Very Interested, but when big news breaks I listen (25 votes)
Not at all interested (2 votes)
75 total votes
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