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O’s Nab the Japanese Import of the Year
By Jamie Mottram | January 7, 2009
While we were on about Gavin Floyd, Baltimore signed its first Japanese ballplayer ever: 33-year-old starting pitcher Koji (Koji!) Uehara.
The deal is two years for $10 million, with incentives that could push it to $16 million, and his resumé reads like so: longtime star in Japan, 12-0 in international competition (2-0 in the ‘06 World Baseball Classic), excellent control, 90-ish fastball, great first name.
FanHouse and the Sun have more for you, but I’m all for it, especially if he’s more Hiroki Kuroda than Kei Igawa. Either way, he gives the O’s a footprint in the Far East, which is more than Daniel Cabrera ever did.
Topics: Koji Uehara, Orioles | 3 Comments »
January 7th, 2009 at 10:26 AM
This works out perfectly, since Angelos is unwilling to pay anyone more than $10-15 million per year.
The fact that the cheap-o Orioles haven’t considered talent from Japan and China is more than perplexing, given how bad they are and how much the fans hate them.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Angelos and Co. will stop at nothing to bring us the dregs of the baseball world.
January 7th, 2009 at 8:55 PM
P.S. I hope hes good.