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MLB Power Rankings: Week 4

MLB Power Rankings: Where MLB FanHouse's editors, writers and bloggers team up to break down the who's who and the what's what in the baseball world.I'm typically terrified of curses. Or jinxes. Or any real excuse for why something went the way I didn't want it to. Which explains why I firmly believe a certain AL East team...

Irabu's Comeback Lurches Forward

The improbable comeback to end all improbable comebacks took a step forward Monday when Hideki Irabu signed a contract with the Long Beach Armada of the independent Golden Baseball League. The press release from the Armada calls him the greatest power pitcher in Japanese professional history, and takes special care to note...

Hideki Irabu Trying a Comeback?

The man George Steinbrenner once called a "fat toad" is attempting a comeback. Seriously. Hideki Irabu, who turns 40 in less than a month and hasn't pitched in the majors since 2002, is trying to make a comeback to baseball, with his ultimate goal being reportedly a "high level, like MLB or NPB (Nippon Professional...

Hideki Irabu is Not Only a 'Fat Toad', Now He's a Drunk and Violent Toad Too!

Remember Hideki Irabu? Sure you do ... he's the man that George Steinbrenner once called a "fat toad" after a disappointing career in pinstripes. Well, he's back in the news ... no, not because the Yankees have signed him to help the starting rotation, but because he's been arrested after a drinking binge which saw him...

Yankees Look East (Again) for Pitching Help

Apparently the rough translation to American baseball for Hideki Irabu and Kei Igawa hasn't soured the New York Yankees on Japanese pitchers. The agent for Kazuo Fukumori says that the Yankees have inquired about the 33-year old reliever, late of the Rakuten Golden Eagles, to help fill out their bullpen for the 2008...

HidekiIrabu News From the Web

04/30/12 Irabu All Over Again? Source: New York Magazine O f all the assignments in the short, loony career of Kenji Nimura, the official translator for Yankees starting pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, none might have been more difficult than having to explain who, or what, Biff Henderson is.