MLB

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In today's game, I think, people wouldnt give the batter anything to hit if he started approaching the record.

Yeah, it's definitely not a Favre/Strahan situation with the sack record.

I dont think its totally like an American player breaking a Sadaharu Oh record either...
Ironically, Ichiro is one of the few current players I could have scene making a run at it (a few years ago when he was still a hits machine) He at least was at one point used to the constant media attention when he first came over.

I assume he didn't get hounded for interviews either, at least not to the same extent that other players would, since he kinda can't speak English.

The Japanese media would still be up his ass.

[MadTIGERmaN]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/f ... reak.shtml



28, hitting streaks at or above 30 games, since DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941. Early 30's seems to be the magic number... and, also on the bottom of that page.



Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation in an episode titled The Big Goodbye they mentioned that Joe DiMaggio's streak was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?


LOL 12 more years and itll be broken

[MattA75]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats-streak.shtml



28, hitting streaks at or above 30 games, since DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941. Early 30's seems to be the magic number... and, also on the bottom of that page.



Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation in an episode titled The Big Goodbye they mentioned that Joe DiMaggio's streak was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?


LOL 12 more years and itll be broken

and we have an expansion franchise in London to look forward to!

[philpritchard]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats-streak.shtml



28, hitting streaks at or above 30 games, since DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941. Early 30's seems to be the magic number... and, also on the bottom of that page.



Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation in an episode titled The Big Goodbye they mentioned that Joe DiMaggio's streak was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?


LOL 12 more years and itll be broken

and we have an expansion franchise in London to look forward to!

I think the Jays would be pissed about having another team in southern Ontario.

[@SkitchP]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats-streak.shtml



28, hitting streaks at or above 30 games, since DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941. Early 30's seems to be the magic number... and, also on the bottom of that page.



Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation in an episode titled The Big Goodbye they mentioned that Joe DiMaggio's streak was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?


LOL 12 more years and itll be broken

and we have an expansion franchise in London to look forward to!

I think the Jays would be pissed about having another team in southern Ontario.

The internet can never have enough canadian geography jokes.

[philpritchard]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats-streak.shtml



28, hitting streaks at or above 30 games, since DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941. Early 30's seems to be the magic number... and, also on the bottom of that page.



Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation in an episode titled The Big Goodbye they mentioned that Joe DiMaggio's streak was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?


LOL 12 more years and itll be broken

and we have an expansion franchise in London to look forward to!

I think the Jays would be pissed about having another team in southern Ontario.

The internet can never have enough canadian geography jokes.

Also, baseball expansion jokes and territorial rights jokes.

[@SkitchP]

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/feats-streak.shtml



28, hitting streaks at or above 30 games, since DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941. Early 30's seems to be the magic number... and, also on the bottom of that page.



Did you know that during the first season (1988) of Star Trek: The Next Generation in an episode titled The Big Goodbye they mentioned that Joe DiMaggio's streak was broken by a shortstop named Buck Bokai of the London Kings in the year 2026?


LOL 12 more years and itll be broken

and we have an expansion franchise in London to look forward to!

I think the Jays would be pissed about having another team in southern Ontario.

The internet can never have enough canadian geography jokes.

Also, baseball expansion jokes and territorial rights jokes.

San Jose? I barely knew him!

[philpritchard]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

[Coach]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

But it's a good signing because they didn't have to give up any draft picks or talent.

[MadTIGERmaN]

I was actually hoping the Dodgers would have...
Kershaw, Greinke, Ryu, Tanaka would have been fun to watch lol

[philpritchard]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

But it's a good signing because they didn't have to give up any draft picks or talent.

Absolutely. But it's still one of those contracts where the cost is high enough that I have no problem with the Jays not signing him.

[numbers]

I don't know enough about tanaka to judge this signing, I hope it doesn't work out but I really have no idea.

[Coach]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

But it's a good signing because they didn't have to give up any draft picks or talent.

Absolutely. But it's still one of those contracts where the cost is high enough that I have no problem with the Jays not signing him.

Yeah, it's def a bad contract for a team like the Jays, and even the Red Sox, who are trying to spend less and develop more homegrown talent.

[@SkitchP]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

But it's a good signing because they didn't have to give up any draft picks or talent.

Absolutely. But it's still one of those contracts where the cost is high enough that I have no problem with the Jays not signing him.

Plus, apparently he has an opt out.. so if he's really good and worth the money, he can leave!

[philpritchard]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

But it's a good signing because they didn't have to give up any draft picks or talent.

Absolutely. But it's still one of those contracts where the cost is high enough that I have no problem with the Jays not signing him.

Plus, apparently he has an opt out.. so if he's really good and worth the money, he can leave!

There's a ton of risk. If he doesn't turn out to be the pitcher they're hoping he becomes, he's signed for seven years at $22 million (plus the $20 posting fee) with a full no-trade clause. If he does turn out to be the pitcher they're hoping he becomes, he can leave (or, more likely, get an even bigger contract) after four years.

Andy Pettitte was worth 3.2 fWAR last year. Yu Darvish was worth 5.0. If Tanaka puts up Darvish-like numbers, the Yankees add somewhere around two wins in 2014. I think it's much more likely he puts up similar numbers to Pettitte (very good, but not elite) and that this signing ends up as a neutral move as far as their 2014 rotation goes.

[numbers]

Not to be outdone by NYY, the Red Sox have signed Grady Siezemore.

[Coach]

Of course the Yankees signed Tanaka. I do take a little bit of comfort in knowing that, including the posting fee, they'll be paying $25 million year.

But it's a good signing because they didn't have to give up any draft picks or talent.

Absolutely. But it's still one of those contracts where the cost is high enough that I have no problem with the Jays not signing him.

Plus, apparently he has an opt out.. so if he's really good and worth the money, he can leave!

There's a ton of risk. If he doesn't turn out to be the pitcher they're hoping he becomes, he's signed for seven years at $22 million (plus the $20 posting fee) with a full no-trade clause. If he does turn out to be the pitcher they're hoping he becomes, he can leave (or, more likely, get an even bigger contract) after four years.

Andy Pettitte was worth 3.2 fWAR last year. Yu Darvish was worth 5.0. If Tanaka puts up Darvish-like numbers, the Yankees add somewhere around two wins in 2014. I think it's much more likely he puts up similar numbers to Pettitte (very good, but not elite) and that this signing ends up as a neutral move as far as their 2014 rotation goes.

There's risk, but the Yankees, unlike any other team, can absorb this being an absolute bomb.

If he follows what other Japanese pitchers have done in MLB, he'll probably be very good-to-elite this year, and then slowly morph into an average MLB starter.

[@SkitchP]

I love that 2 years after the "RED SOX CAN SPEND WHATEVER THEY WANT" posts from Coach that resulted in terrible signings and subsequent salary dumps, he is still riding the "SPEND AS MUCH AS THEY WANT" train

[Coach]

I love that 2 years after the "RED SOX CAN SPEND WHATEVER THEY WANT" posts from Coach that resulted in terrible signings and subsequent salary dumps, he is still riding the "SPEND AS MUCH AS THEY WANT" train

The Yanks spent as much as they wanted to in '09 and that worked out really well, so there goes you're argument.

I think every team can afford to take risks, and if that means assigning a big contract to a player like Tanaka then so be it. The Yanks can afford this risk.

[numbers]

I love that 2 years after the "RED SOX CAN SPEND WHATEVER THEY WANT" posts from Coach that resulted in terrible signings and subsequent salary dumps, he is still riding the "SPEND AS MUCH AS THEY WANT" train

The Red Sox still have the resources to spend like drunken sailors, they just have realized it's not all it's cracked up to be.