Padres Made Offer to Japanese LH Starting Pitcher

35 year old Hisanori Takahashi went 10 - 6 over 25 games last season with the Yomiuri Giants and complied a 2.94 ERA over 144 IP with 126 SO.

The Dodgers, Giants, and Red Sox have also made minor league offers.

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Japan owes us

We sent them Tremell Sledge AND Edgar Gonzalez (maybe Tadahito Iguchi too…), the Gov’t needs to get involved here and force him to sign with SD

by TJB on Feb 5, 2010 4:30 PM PST reply actions

Mountain West Connection ::Above the Rest::
Bolts From The Blue "There’s a gleam men. Let’s go get the gleam! Focus and Finish!!! One play at a time!!! Let's Go!!!"
it kind of reminds me of that movie "You've got mail"...I'm Tom Hanks he's Meg Ryan -- Padres prospect Matt Antonelli on sdsuaztec4

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Feb 5, 2010 4:43 PM PST up reply actions

I know right?

as if Sledge wasn’t enough right? WTF?

by TJB on Feb 5, 2010 6:57 PM PST up reply actions

seriously

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Feb 5, 2010 7:00 PM PST up reply actions

There's no way a minor league contract in the US would pay more than

a major league contract in Japan, right? How does this make sense?

by theodore donald kerabatsos on Feb 5, 2010 5:41 PM PST reply actions

More likely

it’s an opportunity to play with the best in the world and the chance to prove himself.

Otsuka was similar though I think he was more accomplished. Same with Tad Iguchi. Not every import from Japan is as dominating as a Yu Davarish or a Hideki Matsui. Sometimes alot of them just want the chance to go to the majors and compete against hte best in the world

by TheAxManCometh on Feb 5, 2010 7:12 PM PST up reply actions