On this LeBron 2014 Nonsense
February 10, 2013While We’re Waiting… Changing the way the game is played
February 11, 2013The Cleveland Indians have signed former Red Sox and (two time MVP of the World Baseball Classic!!) Daisuke Matsuzaka or “Dice-K”. CBS’s Jon Heyman’s reports that deal could worth as much as $4 million.
Dice-K agrees to #indians deal
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) February 10, 2013
Dice-K has chance to make $4M w/ #indians deal. #gyroball
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeymanCBS) February 10, 2013
And the PlainDealer’s Paul Hoynes reported that his base salary would be $1.6 million.
Daisuke Matsuzaka will make $1.5 million in base salary if he passes physical and makes team. #Indians.
— paul hoynes (@hoynsie) February 10, 2013
Like Jason Giambi, signing the 32 year old Matsuzaka is another low-risk, high-reward move. After having Tommy John surgery in 2011, Dice-K was just 1-7 with an 8.28 ERA for the Red Sox in 2012, giving up 11 HRs in just 45 innings.
Known for his “gyroball“, in 2006, the Red Sox paid $51 million just for the rights to negotiate with Matsuzaka and then proceeded to sign him for another $52 million. Dice-K went 50-7 in his six years in Boston, with an ERA of 4.52 and posting a 1.418 WHIP.
I wonder how much new manager Terry Francona had to do with this signing. Francona has talked in the past at how he’s happy to be out of the crucible that is Boston Sports. Assuming he’s healthy, I bet pitching in a no-pressure situation in Cleveland would be good for Matsuzaka (not to mention not having to live up to the expectations come with a $100 million contract).
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my boston buds are laughing at this one. but its worth a try
looks like we’ve got a great team… it were 2006
Low Risk, High Reward signings. What is there to complain about? Keep it up Tribe brass!
GYRO-BALL!
A bunch of has-beens and never-weres. We would be paying him $4 million to bring his name and little else. Sell mediocre somewhere else, we’re all full up here.
the signing is fine. it’s not my money. just set the expectation bar low.
the 8+ ERA last year sounds right but doesnt fully capture how painful he was to watch. he’s a slow working nibbler. even in his good year, he averaged 100 pitches per 5+ innings (ave start).
francona definitely had a say in this. that’s the biggest positive here… francona knows this guy.
Wish we still had Bentancourt now. Dice-K starts, Bentancourt finishes…..8 hour 9-inning game.
Probably nothing to the rumor that Antonetti got drunk at the winter meetings and wagered more than he intended that the Tribe would have this year’s AL Comeback Player of the Year.
You go, Chris – you can’t win if you don’t play.
Three key words: minor league deal. This is a great move, no matter what happens with him.
We’ve had a lot of strange minor-league signings this offseason. One has to work out right??
The “low risk high reward” Tribe
WE SHOULD SIGN GRADY SIZEMORE
Your Boston buds have nothing to laugh about. The Red Sox paid $51 just to NEGOTIATE with this guy.
NOBODY is that good.
i never liked Dice-K (way too many BBs which leads to a high WHIP and too many run opportunities for the other team), but this is just rolling the dice (see what I did there) to see if any of these guys has anything left.
I saw that. Nice!
I’ve always wondered how they got dice-kay out of die-SOO-key.
I feel like I am watching Major League: Back to the Minors
The Columbus Clippers are gonna be fun to watch this year!
I want to down-vote this, but I laughed too hard & just couldn’t do it.
“this guy’s dead” “well cross him off the list!”
It’s a great year to be a student at tOSU!
the ‘u’ sound before ‘ke’ in ‘suke’ in Japanese is silent. Just a picky detail in their language
Me too. I tried to learn Japanese on my own once upon a time, but I got bored after a couple weeks. Words can mean different things depending on where in the word you put the accent, which is stupid and I want no part of it.
WHOA!!!! The Nerd Club goes bilingual. Good job, NoVa. Pretty impressive.