It cost them $57.1 million, but the Rangers won the right to negotiate a contract with Japanese phenom Yu Darvish. That broke the previous posting fee that was put up by the Red Sox to pick up Dice-K. Darvish seems like the real deal. He’s big, throws hard and he then he has his pitchers. The Rangers now have until January 18 to work out a deal.
One nice thing is, he’s only 25. Last season he put up some impressive numbers in Japan. He went 18-6 with a 1.44 ERA and 276 strikeouts in 232 innings. He’s had an ERA below 2.00 for five straight seasons (but he’s had just two ERA titles and he’s a two time MVP. The Rangers have been scouting him for a while and that hard work hopefully paid off because we should have an ace in the making.
