Kei Igawa
by bronx joey on Mar 6, 2010 10:32 PM EST
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PrintEvery March for the past couple years I am reminded that Kei Igawa is not only still alive (don't the Japanese have some tradition of committing suicide if they cause dishonor to themselves and their families) but apparently still employed by the New York Yankees organization. I have several questions some are hard to answer some are easy: 1) What was his original contract? 2) Is he in fact the richest man in the greater Scranton Wilkes-Barre Metropolitan Area? 3) Does he in fact have a different Ferrari for every day of the week, and does he drive such Ferrari/Ferraris on road trips and forgo the team bus? 4) Will he ever pitch in the majors ever again?
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He got destroyed in MLB because he wouldn’t (or couldn’t) get his breaking ball down in the zone.
If he’s learned how to do that, I could see him making the team in the pen.
But I also wouldn’t bank on it based on his outings in the first week of March. Give the hitters a chance to shake off the rust.
"Have faith in the Yankees, my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
Give hitters a chance?
A Chance? wait..that takes too long. F that! FIRE GUIDRY!!!
Master of the squeegee
I blame the new ST field.
FIRE STEINBRENNER!!!
Master of the squeegee
by FreeBradshaw on Mar 7, 2010 12:28 PM EST up reply actions
Isn't it obvious?
Since they’re not performing up to our standards of perfection, let’s just send Guidry, Eiland, and Steinbrenner to “teh pen” where they will build up a much greater value and be far more useful to our current team.
by Leviticus6688 on Mar 7, 2010 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
LOL
Didn’t catch that the first time, good on!
Let’s all get on the “FIRE EILAND” Ferry! LOL
by dustproduction on Mar 15, 2010 10:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Didn't they also have
to pay some ridiculous amount of money to his Japanese team also?
they did
26 million to answer my own question
Rolaid Award
How do you spell Relief? I-G-A-W-A
I read where there is talk of turning him into a relievers.
I’ll try to find the story again, but he appears to have better success against lefties so they are converting him over.
NBC Sports 2/23
The Yankees plan to use Kei Igawa exclusively as a left-handed reliever in camp and possibly the minor leagues.
Not a bad gig for $20 million. The Igawa contract remains a tremendous financial blunder, but it’s worth seeing what he can do as a left-handed specialist. He pitched to a .200 batting average against left-handed hitters last season at Triple-A Scranton, inducing groundballs at a rate of 40.6 percent. We’re not optimistic about his overall chances for success, but it could make for an interesting experiment.
Source: Joel Sherman on Twitter
by dustproduction on Mar 10, 2010 11:27 AM EST up reply actions
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