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It is time for me to make another epically correct suggestion. As I brought to your attention, each WS winner since 2003 has had at least on Japanese player on their roster, and the percentage of Japanese on the WS roster has gone up or stayed the season each year. If we're to win the World Series next year, we need at least two players born in Japan, preferably three. The success of teams with Japanese players is nearly identical to the success of teams who first adopted African Americans and Hispanics on their rosters. (I'm serious, do your homework).

 

Well, with Fukudome looking like he's heading to the Cubs (well not really but it's not official yet) that will leave us one Japanese player short. The Cubs want fast guys who hit lefties and play the middle infield. Our options are dwindling quickly. Brian Roberts is not the answer, he costs too much and he's not that good. Now if we give up just one of the prerequisites, we might end up with a better 2B than Mark DeRosa.

 

His name is not unheard of. We're not chasing Big Foot (Yulieski Gourriel) here. We're chasing World Series dreams, man! Over the last two years this player has been every bit as good as Mark DeRosa and will allow Uncle Lou to go Mark McLemore on DeRosa. Sure he's not as good as Brian Roberts, although their numbers are similar. His name is Tadahito Iguchi. He also brings our Japanese player total up to: 2, which statistically speaking is something we need if we're to win the WS next year.

 

Now Tadahito Iguchi isn't great, he's an above average secondbaseman who can EqA in the mid .270s, but he's better than the other token Japanese player we tried to acquire, Kazuo Matsui. And cheaper. There's very little interest out there for his services. At the very worst we'd have the best backup second baseman in baseball. Which is going to be needed when Mark DeRosa gets caught for 'roiding up (seriously he's probably gonna be in The Report next week).

 

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The whole time we were pursuing Matsui was wondering to myself why it wasn't Iguchi. He makes so much more sense.
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and if only we could steal Kawasaki from Japan

 

vrooooooooom

 

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he's left handed, a shortstop, and lightning fast (like ichiro fast). GG defensive guy too.

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and if only we could steal Kawasaki from Japan

 

vrooooooooom

 

http://www.motorcycledaily.com/kx65.jpg

 

he's left handed, a shortstop, and lightning fast (like ichiro fast). GG defensive guy too.

 

no arm

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i agree, i think iguchi's skill set will be undervalued. supposedly he's looking for something similar to what matsui got (3 years, $16.5 million) and I think he'll end up getting about $5-6M per year. That's pretty good value in the current market. PECOTA projects him to have pretty solid numbers the next few years, too.
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If DeRosa reverts to the pre-2006 version, it would be good to have a another solid 2B on the roster. I could support Tad.

 

But Meph, your chart from another thread suggested the year's winner would have 3 or more Japanese-born players. Even with Tad and Fukudome, we have just 2. Who else you got?

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The Cubs want fast guys who hit lefties and play the middle infield.

 

As I understand it, the Cubs were looking for fast guys who hit righties and play the middle infield. Most of the attraction around lefties being that they hit righties well.

 

Iguchi is pretty unexciting. $6 million is a bargain? Ugh. These .768 OPS type guys are the sort of guys even this crap system should be able to churn out. Shabby. What a system.

 

His day/night splits are nice if he were going to the Cubs. The fielding metrics make look like a sorry defender though. A career .768 OPS decent but not Matsui-like basestealer of questionable defensive prowess, it just seems kind of pointless to me. How many more wins would be worth to the club to bring in Iguchi and have DeRosa as the super-sub, I wonder? I wouldn't want to be committed to Iguchi for 3 years. If we want a fast guy to play poor defense at 2nd let's throw Eric Patterson out there.

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The Cubs want fast guys who hit lefties and play the middle infield.

 

As I understand it, the Cubs were looking for fast guys who hit righties and play the middle infield. Most of the attraction around lefties being that they hit righties well.

 

Iguchi is pretty unexciting. $6 million is a bargain? Ugh. These .768 OPS type guys are the sort of guys even this crap system should be able to churn out. Shabby. What a system.

 

His day/night splits are nice if he were going to the Cubs. The fielding metrics make look like a sorry defender though. A career .768 OPS decent but not Matsui-like basestealer of questionable defensive prowess, it just seems kind of pointless to me. How many more wins would be worth to the club to bring in Iguchi and have DeRosa as the super-sub, I wonder? I wouldn't want to be committed to Iguchi for 3 years. If we want a fast guy to play poor defense at 2nd let's throw Eric Patterson out there.

 

sounds good to me!

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If DeRosa reverts to the pre-2006 version, it would be good to have a another solid 2B on the roster. I could support Tad.

 

But Meph, your chart from another thread suggested the year's winner would have 3 or more Japanese-born players. Even with Tad and Fukudome, we have just 2. Who else you got?

 

Boston had two, that means we need at least two.

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I suspect this theory can be contended by saying there is at least one Dominican Republic player on a a WS winning team since the early 90's.

 

 

not really. it's the early adoption rule

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