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Dodgers Close to Signing Jason Schmidt

AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
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Guess it was in the works and a push really came after Maddux signed with the Padres.

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  • zef204zef204 Posts: 4,742 ✭✭
    FOX sports is reporting its a done deal.
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  • BarndogBarndog Posts: 20,510 ✭✭✭✭✭
    this will keep Matsuzaka's price tag high for Boston.
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,557 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>this will keep Matsuzaka's price tag high for Boston. >>




    I would have much rather thrown this money at Jason Schmidt instead
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


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    << <i>this will keep Matsuzaka's price tag high for Boston. >>




    I would have much rather thrown this money at Jason Schmidt instead >>




    No way, perk - Matsuzaka has the makings of a superstar, while Schmidt is a slightly better than average pitcher with a career ERA of almost 4. When I think of top SP in baseball, I hardly think of someone like Schmidt. Plus, he's almost 34.
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    No way, perk - Matsuzaka has the makings of a superstar,. >>



    Really. A guy who has never faced big league hitters on a day to day basis? Thats alot of hoping ....

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


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    Really. A guy who has never faced big league hitters on a day to day basis? Thats alot of hoping .... >>



    Really? People who get paid to scout for a living sure seem to think so.

    While they are be no means perfect, they know a hell of a lot more about a player's potential than anyone here.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭


    Scouting and predicting "D-Mats" success in the bigs is NOTHING MORE then a crapshoot. There are TONS and TONS of guys whith great tools who never pan out who were "scouted" and billed as future stars. That is my point. Its only once in a blue moon that one of them costs 100 million bucks

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Even with the Risk i'd rather have a go at D-mat.

    Schmidt though is a solid number 3 guy.

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭
    Yeah, Kevin Maas really worked out, eh? The scouts were right on. Who else? Joe Charbonneau? Maybe Greg Jefferies cuz wasnt he supposed to be the next big thing in his day? Uh huh....

    Can anyone blame Schmidt for wanting to stay in the National League? Im sure Randy Johnson wishes he would have stayed there.
  • jlbsquaredjlbsquared Posts: 840
    Scouts are never, ever wrong. Especially about Japanese pitchers - they have had so, so much success in the big leagues.


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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Scouts are never, ever wrong. Especially about Japanese pitchers - they have had so, so much success in the big leagues.


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    You are absolutely correct! I think I'll start a new thread to discuss possible HOF inductions of Irabu, Nomo, and Park!
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    You guys are too much. I don't remember teams fighting over those guys to the point where they had to pay huge money just to negotiate a possible deal. Just because they all are from Japan, so what? Obviously, there is something different about Matsuzaka. Why don't you compare him to, say - Ichiro? He was a real bust also, right?
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  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,281 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>You guys are too much. I don't remember teams fighting over those guys to the point where they had to pay huge money just to negotiate a possible deal. Just because they all are from Japan, so what? Obviously, there is something different about Matsuzaka. Why don't you compare him to, say - Ichiro? He was a real bust also, right? >>



    The "posting a bid" system as it is now has caught on only recently. You can't compare Hideo Nomo all the way up to Irabu with any of these guys today. That includes the supposed marginal guys who entered the bid posting fray this year.

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭
    I would guess that it is much easier to scout and determine a positional players potential in MLB than pitchers.

    Take Hideki Matsui for example. He was a HR monster in Japan but all the scouts knew he wasnt that kind of hitter in MLB. As for Ichiro, they knew he was a contact hitter that could go to all fields and had a heck of an arm regardless where he played. And yes, they were wrong about Kaz Matsui...which still may yet to be determined.

    Point is, I believe it would be easier to scout positional players.
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