Japanese Baseball Players are Overrated
SeatedCoin
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Dice-K was supposed to be the next great thing since sliced bread with his "Gyro". NOT. He has been mediocre at best. $50 Million signing fee out the window.
"Godzilla" Hideki Matsui has been very good but hasn't hit nowhere the 50 Home runs that he did in the 2002 season in Japan.
Hidecki Irabu was supposed to be the next coming of Nolan Ryan. A huge NOT.
Kei Igawa led the Japanse Central League in strikeouts in 2002, 2004, and 2006. WHAT the Hell?!?! How he do that?
The one exception: Ichiro
"Godzilla" Hideki Matsui has been very good but hasn't hit nowhere the 50 Home runs that he did in the 2002 season in Japan.
Hidecki Irabu was supposed to be the next coming of Nolan Ryan. A huge NOT.
Kei Igawa led the Japanse Central League in strikeouts in 2002, 2004, and 2006. WHAT the Hell?!?! How he do that?
The one exception: Ichiro
"The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
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Matsuzaka will be the exception to that, and of course, Ichiro would be a great player on the moon - but I more or less agree with you.
I am glad you are so confident.
"The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
By the way, back in 1996 Irabu was the best pitcher in Japan and was hyped as the "next Nolan Ryan". We all saw what happened with that.
"The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
"The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
Igawa and Irabu are the only complete busts; Ichiro, Johjima, Okijima, Iguchi, Nomo and others have all been productive, sometimes doing better than expected, sometimes doing a little worse
Japanese produces far less baseball talent than the US. Since no one has ever thought differently and since they exceed expectations and fall short at about the same rate as Americans, as a group they are most certainly not overrated
<< <i>Tom, Seatedcoin just wanted a chance to bash a red sox player. Rice-k has 14 wins, you Kei Igawa was FLUSHED DOWN THE TOILET. How could you even compare the two? Oh yeah cause they are Japanese. You are hanging around Axtell too much >>
What does that mean, hanging around Axtell too much?
And Japanese baseball players are overrated? Dice K not worth the money spent? How do you figure? What possible objective analysis did you do to come up with that insight boba, or were you just talking without thinking again. Perhaps you can point out a free agent pitcher available this off season who performed better for less money.
No mainstream media is mentioned, no national source, just some oddball article that runs a two sentence article?
Hardly solid proof, hardly a 'source'.
There surely must be evidence out there that calls him the 'japanese nolan ryan' prior to the season starting, and in more than just a blurb recapping the game. Hell he was in contract negotiations forever, there surely must be something out there listing him as such, and not just a simplistic 2 sentence game recap.
Yeah I am pretty sure these are reputable sources as well. So now that's five links. How many more do you want?
Significant difference between what was written originally and the implications in the sources you provided
Buzz Arlett has been called the Babe Ruth of the Minor Leagues
<< <i>Dice K not worth the money spent? How do you figure? >>
This is another glaring example of Axtroll's bias. $100 million for a pitcher who is 14-12 with a ERA of 4.41, and is tiring badly down the stretch and he defends it. His cost nearly equals the entire Marinated's payroll for a year, and he's ok with it. If this was a Yankee pitcher Axtroll would have set up a website devoted to this being the worst money spent in MLB history.
"The answer was in the Patriots eyes. Gone were the swagger and c0ck sure smirks, replaced by downcast eyes and heads in hands. For his poise and leadership Eli Manning was named the game's MVP. The 2007 Giants were never perfect nor meant to be. They were fighters, scrappers....now they could be called something else, World Champions."
It's his first year...how about we actually see the guy pitch more than a full season in the majors before we make that determination.