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Yu Darvish Becomes Highest-Paid Player in Japan, No Comment on Coming to MLB

With teams signing up ace pitchers to long-term deals earlier and earlier, the free agent landscape is awfully short on dynamic starters in the next few years. That's part of what makes Yu Darvish so interesting. Just 24, Darvish is, by acclaim, the best pitcher in Japan who hasn't yet attempted to make his way to the...

Yu Darvish Reportedly Will Move to Majors in 2012

Earlier this week we found out that Hisashi Iwakuma would be posted for bids by the 30 teams in the major leagues, but we wondered when he'd be joined by Japan's most prized pitcher. Will Yu Darvish come to America? Rumors flew in both directions earlier this year until Darvish himself said in October that he would be...

Yu Darvish, Top Japanese Pitcher, Says He Won't Play in Majors in 2011

It apparently will be at least one more year before Yu Darvish, one of the two premier starting pitchers in Japan, opts to pitch in the major leagues. Darvish, a right-hander who throws from the three-quarters position, had been one of the most dominant pitchers in Japan the last four years with a 58-22 record and 1.80...

Major League Notebook: May 20

Here's what's happening around baseball on Thursday May 20, 2010: • This is a major league notebook, but we start with an item from the Nippon Professional Baseball league. Yu Darvish, the next big thing from Japan (and a player who has said he doesn't expect to leave his native land), reportedly has an agent with...

'Wa' Reigns Supreme at WBC

LOS ANGELES -- It's all about the Wa, the forfeiture of self for the unity and harmony of the greater good, or team. You could sense Wa all around Monday night, as Japan and South Korea engaged in one of the finest back-to-basics baseball games you might ever see. Wa was there in the sacrifice flies bringing home runners,...

Yu Darvish News From the Web

06/01/12 AL Matchup to Watch Is No Longer Boston Red Sox vs.... Source: Bleacher Report Who needs the Red Sox and Yankees when you can have Felix Hernandez matched up against Yu Darvish and Ichiro Suzuki shagging Josh Hamilton's deep flies?
05/31/12 Looking Back at the First Two Months Source: NBC DFW Locals Only. For something that is absolutely essential to understanding the best and worst in the game, math can sometimes have a funny relationship with baseball.
05/31/12 TOMODACHI Teams Up With Yu Darvish, Texas Rangers,... Source: U.S. Embassy in Japan As part of the ongoing efforts under the TOMODACHI Initiative, Texas Rangers pitcher and Tohoku High School alumnus Yu Darvish, the Texas Rangers Major League Baseball team, and Japanese online gaming company gloops International, Inc. announced that they are funding the participation of a youth baseball team from Ishinomaki for a week-long exchange in Texas this summer.
05/30/12 Feliz only focused on getting healthy Source: CBSSports.com Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners chased Texas' Yu Darvish after just four innings in his shortest start of the season, and the Mariners rolled to their fourth straight win in a 6-1 victory over the Rangers on Monday night.
05/30/12 Fantasy Baseball: Mike Trout, Bryce Harper and... Source: Bleacher Report Yu Darvish has been exactly as advertised.