Ok so the Texas Rangers finally got their man, as Japanese pitching phenom Yu Darvish signed a 6-year, $60 million deal to play in Arlington.
Add in the $52 million posting fee the Rangers paid to talk to Darvish for a month, (= $1.7 million per day) and that makes a grand total of roughly $111.7 million.
That’s a lot of dough to pay for a pitcher with zero MLB experience, but the Rangers really had no choice in the matter after letting CJ Wilson walk into the arms of the division rival Angels.
The Rangers are gambling on Darvish, just like the Yankees and Red Sox did with Kei Igawa and Dice-K.
Can Darvish rewrite recent history by being the same dominate pitcher he was in Japan?
That is what the Rangers are counting on, but they are not alone.
David Schoenfield of ESPN’s Sweet Spot wasted no time Ranking The Five Best Starting Rotations this past Thursday morning, and he ranked the Rangers third behind only the Angels and Phillies.
Darvish was obviously the difference maker for Sch...
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