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NPB Bullet Points: Player Personnel

by Patrick Newman (Aug 31, 2010)

A roundup of player acquisition notes from around the 'net.

  • Yomiuri is extending the tryout of their mystery player by another week or two.
  • Sponichi reports that SoftBank is going to drop injured ace Kazumi Saito to ikusei status after this season. Saito hasn't pitched in an ichi-gun game since 2007.
  • It's no surprise that Koji Uehara wants to continue playing in MLB, but that hasn't stopped him from appearing in NPB rumors. Hanshin and Yokohama are reportedly interested.
  • Hideki Matsui has ruled out a return to Japan. A quote from Sponichi: "[it's not an option]. Please think it through. How would I play on artificial turf with my knees? Even if I want to go back I wouldn't be able to play. Under the circumstances, it's impossible."
  • It looks like Orix manager Akinobu Okada is trying to recruit retired Hanshin speedster Norihiro Akahoshi out of retirement. Post-retirement comebacks are rare in Japan, Hanshin would have to release their rights to him, and he'd have to prove that he's medically fit to play, so there are significant hurdles here.
  • Former Carp ace Colby Lewis did an interview with Chunichi Sports. The whole thing is worth translating, but for now I'll just do his answer to the inevitable question about Yu Darvish and Hisashi Iwakuma: "I think Darvish is a player who should come to the majors as soon as he can. No one knows what he'll be like or in what role he'll be used in if he waits until he's 26 or 27. I think Japan should change the service time requirements of it's free agency system. I think Iwakuma would also succeed in the majors. If pitchers can show velocity it's easy to if how they make it in the majors." (note: this is a translation of a translation)
  • And finally, one in English: Christopher Jackson of the Albuquerque Examiner has a report on some of the 3A Isotopes players' brushes with Japan, including former NPB'ers Scott Dohmann and Michael Restovich, and NPB hopeful John Lindsey.

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