The Yankees tried to trade for Hiroki Kuroda at the trade deadline last season, but he evoked his no trade clause and stayed in Los Angeles. Now that he’s a Yankee, he doesn’t want to go anywhere else and has gotten another full no trade clause as part of his contract, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
Why would Kuroda reject a deal to the Yankees one month and then make sure they can’t trade him the next month? He spoke with Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times about that and said that he didn’t want to join a contender midseason, winning that way would have been cheap he said.
Kuroda also said that his preference was to return to the Dodgers this offseason, but once it became clear they weren’t going to offer him a contract he narrowed his options to his former team the Hiroshima Carp and the Yankees even though five or six teams were interested in him. Kuroda, who has never been in the playoffs in America or Japan, ultimately took less money to ...
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