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<p>Sanchez was .746 vL in '14, but has a career .863 vs. southpaws. He was pretty putrid in #Japan last year, but this is cheap spaghetti that might pay off. I like the signing.</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - Browns8625 - 1/28/16 5:48am<br><p>Yea. Specifically like the numbers vs lefties.. Will be atkestbuseful for bench depth and pinch hits if nothing else</p>
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<p>Been out of the loop for a bit, so sorry for bringing up old #News... But why is everyone lumping Bass going to #Japan like it was part of the original trade? That makes no sense, this is a totally separate situation. And from everything I have read about the situation, Bass pretty much had a guaranteed spot in the M's pen and HE asked for his release... Dipoto did him a solid and granted it... how does that have anything to do with the original trade?
<p>Something seems weird about the Oh deal... And the Korean signings this winter in general... They have all gotten way less than expected, and one guy we were talking about signing didn't even get signed at all... seems #Strange after all the recent KBO and #Japan successes... Even for the cardinals this didn't get much pub, and feels more like a "pile of bullpen spaghetti" signing than a, "Hey look we just got a great new closer" signing... Makes me wonder what the GM's know that we don't.
<p>Ms release Bass so he can go to #Japan. I wonder if this is the opening shot in the moves to finish the BP. The interest in Antonio Bastardo that Shannon Drayer reported back at Winter Meetings time may still be there. </p>
<p>AB wants what Sipp got -3/$18M - but the Ms might prefer something like 2/$10 from what it sounds like. But no other team has stepped up with a 3rd year, so maybe JD has some maneuvering room. </p>
<p>It's hard to digest the soft market on Korean players, given their splashes so recently. Would be like Ichiro and Godzilla proving themselves and then ... well, I guess that's it out of #Japan. Odd.</p>
<p>Ramu Tokashiki is playing for #Japan--and in the Olympics next year, too.</p>
<div class="indented">Reply - gnomie - 12/29/15 8:00pm<br><p>No surprise there. She's a rising star.</p>
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<p>I only see a slight edge for Maeda in hr/9 and h/9 over Iwakuma. Kuma has the better k/bb. (Maeda-#Japan vs Kuma-mlb). And the gopheritis only hit Kuma when he left #Japan. You get 6 years of age difference, but ill save the bidding war and go after the known commodity in Kuma while everyone else decides how much they want to pay just to sit at the table with Kenta</p>
