chamb117 Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 i forgot they still have to pay a-rod because they didn't suspend him for the full 183 games. fuck the yankees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemongoat Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 A's sign Eric O'Flaherty, still recovering from TJ A's can boast a post ASB bullpen of Otero, O'Flaherty, Cook, Doolittle, Gregerson and Jim Johnson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 What in the actual fuck?! I fucking hate the Yankees. This Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoshotthefrog Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 you know, 22 mil a year, no big deal. so much for "trying to get under the luxary tax", huh? For an unproven player, too. He almost got more than double what Darvish got. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMoosen Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 bigbruise and kyacrash 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stl_ben Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Go Cardinals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 For an unproven player, too. He almost got more than double what Darvish got. Darvish was essentially earning money for Tanaka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Tanaka suffered just one loss overall in his historic 2013 season -- a 160-pitch (yes, 160) complete-game loss in Game 6 of the Japan Series (NPB's championship series). Incredibly, Tanaka asked for the ball the very next day and closed out the Golden Eagles' championship victory by throwing 15 pitches in the series clincher. Overall, his career numbers are almost as impressive as his 2013 campaign. Tanaka debuted as an 18-year-old in 2007 but still hurled 186 1/3 innings. Since that time, he's pitched to a 2.30 ERA with 8.5 K/9 and 1.9 BB/9 in 1315 career regular-season innings -- all coming with the Golden Eagles. 160 pitch game? then pitched the next day? 1300 innings in his career? this kids arm is going to explode if the yankees run him out there 190+ innings a year. i mean, thats a shitload of innings in 6 years of ball in Japan. i mean, look at how crazy this is... 28 games started, 186 innings pitched (6.2 ip/g) 24 games started, 172 innings pitched (7.1 ip/g) 24 games started, 189 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) 20 games started, 155 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) 27 games started, 226 innings pitched (8.1 ip/g) 22 games started, 173 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) 27 games started, 212 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maneatingcow Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I have nothing against Tanaka. However, I now want his career to be more Hideki Irabu than Yu Darvish. Minus the whole suicide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoshotthefrog Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 I have nothing against Tanaka. However, I now want his career to be more Hideki Irabu than Yu Darvish. Minus the whole suicide. Dice-K, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 Igawa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime Posted January 22, 2014 Share Posted January 22, 2014 160 pitch game? then pitched the next day? 1300 innings in his career? this kids arm is going to explode if the yankees run him out there 190+ innings a year. i mean, thats a shitload of innings in 6 years of ball in Japan. i mean, look at how crazy this is... 28 games started, 186 innings pitched (6.2 ip/g) 24 games started, 172 innings pitched (7.1 ip/g) 24 games started, 189 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) 20 games started, 155 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) 27 games started, 226 innings pitched (8.1 ip/g) 22 games started, 173 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) 27 games started, 212 innings pitched (7.2 ip/g) I'm guessing this has something to do with the 4 year opt out clause they put in the contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I'm guessing this has something to do with the 4 year opt out clause they put in the contract. its a player option, not team, so it doesnt help the yankees out at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Guess it's really a 175 million dollar contract when you count the posting fee. I'm not sure why you wouldn't -- It's not like you look at value of a contract after an agent (or anyone else) takes a share. Look at it from the team's point of view. Makes him tied with Felix for the 3rd richest contract for a pitcher ever, behind Kershaw and JV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewberinger Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 so the Yankees have spent like 500 million on 9 players this off season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewberinger Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I wish the Brewers could spend that much money instead i get to watch the 1B battle between Lyle Overbay, Juan Francisco, and Mark Reynolds this spring and it is going to be amazingly awful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 so the Yankees have spent like 500 million on 9 players this off season? Which will make it even more hilarious when they don't win the World Series this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 The Red Sox signed Grady Sizemore. I guess they wanted to pay for some of his surgeries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebiglebowski Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 The Red Sox signed Grady Sizemore. I guess they wanted to pay for some of his surgeries? Kinda hard to believe but he missed 9 total games (many likely just regular rest) in his first 4 full seasons. Dude was considered durable for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamb117 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 no way he matches king felix, or darvish for that matter. i think every international signing in the past three has been a bargain (darvish, cespedes, puig, iwakuma, leonys martin, even nori aoki) and maybe tanaka's signing was the perfect storm of need + confidence in the market. but if he can't put up 4-WAR seasons consistently he will be a bust and we all know that's a lot to ask for from an unproven guy let alone one of the league's best. Guess it's really a 175 million dollar contract when you count the posting fee. I'm not sure why you wouldn't -- It's not like you look at value of a contract after an agent (or anyone else) takes a share. Look at it from the team's point of view. Makes him tied with Felix for the 3rd richest contract for a pitcher ever, behind Kershaw and JV. yeah, those posting fees are prorated across the life of the contract if i'm not mistaken, too, so it's definitely worth adding in. i wasn't aware of the posting fee. thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I wish the Brewers could spend that much money instead i get to watch the 1B battle between Lyle Overbay, Juan Francisco, and Mark Reynolds this spring and it is going to be amazingly awful. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewberinger Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Which will make it even more hilarious when they don't win the World Series this year. yeah I mean the Yankees infield is still a disaster, the rotation is full of questions and they have no one good in the bullpen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drewberinger Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO haha yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 no way he matches king felix, or darvish for that matter. i think every international signing in the past three has been a bargain (darvish, cespedes, puig, iwakuma, leonys martin, even nori aoki) and maybe tanaka's signing was the perfect storm of need + confidence in the market. but if he can't put up 4-WAR seasons consistently he will be a bust and we all know that's a lot to ask for from an unproven guy let alone one of the league's best. yeah, those posting fees are prorated across the life of the contract if i'm not mistaken, too, so it's definitely worth adding in. i wasn't aware of the posting fee. thanks. posting fee is separate. its paid over two years in 6 (or 8?) installments to the NPB team, its not calculated into the avg yearly salary a player gets because the posting fee goes to the japanese team, not the player Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 i was wrong, 4 payments 50 percent of posting fee due within 14 days of the submission of the posted player's contract (for the Rakuten Golden Eagles, that would mean $10MM on Feb. 7). 17 percent of the posting fee due within six months of the submission of the posted player's contract ($3.4MM for the Golden Eagles on July 24). 17 percent of the posting fee due within 12 months of the submission of the posted player's contract ($3.4MM for the Golden Eagles on Jan. 24, 2015). 16 percent of the posting fee due within 18 months of the submission of the posted player's contract ($3.2MM for the Golden Eagles on July 24, 2015). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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