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A minor leaguer or bullpen help?
No. If the Yanks send Igawa to the Padres, he will have success and that will make them look bad. In addition, they will have flushed 26 million dollars completely down the drain. They aren't letting Igawa go for some small salary relief, even if it means they have a 40 million dollar AAA starter for the next three years.
Why, because Kevin Towers has magic pitcher juice? He may have some success, or he may continue to flounder just as badly as he has with the Yanks. I don't exactly recall the Fat ##### Toad, for example, lighting up the league after the Yankees cut bait.
Yup.
I don't exactly recall the Fat ##### Toad, for example, lighting up the league after the Yankees cut bait.
He was on the Padres before the Yankees (well, not actually on them), not after.
Why is he so tateriffic?
Because his outpitch is a high change up.
I know :)
Point wasn't about the Pads, point was about pitchers cut by the Yankees after meh performances. See also Weaver, Jeff; Vasquez, Javier; Neagle, Denny; I'm sure some others.
Ah, see, if it were most other teams, I wouldn't be so sure of it, but with the Padres, I have no doubt that Igawa would make something of himself there. I'm also positive he would be worse as a Pirate.
Interesting indeed.
Hopefully, this is just 1 of the 1000 "Player A made it through Waivers".
That's from rotoworld. Kevin Towers really must not care what the media out there says. "OMG He traded Linebrink for nothing and Meredith for worse than nothing!"
why do they even bother listing the ESPN before his name? He's their staff Yankees writer. If you're going to hang onto the ESPN, call him ESPN's Yankees Correspondent.
Having yet to see Igawa, is this an example of a pitcher who can be successful in NPB, but not in MLB, for exactly this reason?
Yes, sort of. I'm not convinced he's hopeless in MLB. Yankee Stadium and the AL East are not exactly elixers for HR prone pitchers. Towers has always been good at finding the right guys for his team as opposed to the most talented and priciest guys. Adrian Gonzalez, with his incredible op-field doubles power is an excellent example.
That $30 million is not walking through this door, Rich. Let the dream go. By the way, Igawa makes my list of the top 1 ugliest players in baseball. not a handsome man.
Exactly, but what I was asking was more along the lines of whether a high change-up as an out pitch is an acceptable tradeoff in NPB (less homers per AB, and therefore less damaging when thrown poorly) but not in MLB, to the point that it can drive a successful NPB pitcher to underperform his MLEs for that reason.
Adrian Gonzalez, with his incredible op-field doubles power is an excellent example.
And you're just killing this Rangers fan by mentioning the 2nd best player in that deal.
Specific pitcher/player profiles would be an outstanding addition to MLEs. For instance, it could introduce degrees of variance based on the most similar players. Speaking of high changeups, does this mean that Johan Santana would post a negative ERA in NPB? Does it mean the Yankees maybe shouldn't pay him one billion dollars? That's the Twins fanboy in me dreaming.
Look at Sasaki. He pitched in bandboxes his whole career in the Central League, and was one of the hardest guys to homer off of. He came to MLB and right off the bat lost the closer job because he was giving up homers left and right...in Safeco.
Matsuzaka gave up .72 HR/9IP in Japan, but in MLB just about exactly 1 HR/9IP (.93 HR/9IP if we go by BB-ref's neutralized stats.)
If you think he can be a decent back of the rotation guy, then you don't move him for anything the Pads would offer at this point. If you don't think he's any good, you dump him and be happy with the $25+ mil in saving (including tax).
Personally, I would just let him go. I wonder if Towers plays hardball if Cashman would too.
No he isn't, though a credible case could be made he isn't even the ugliest Japanese guy with the Yankees.
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