Comments on: Mariners sign Hisashi Iwakuma to one-year, $1.5M contract

By: henryd3rd

henryd3rd — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 21:35:46 +0000

Does this this trumps the Angels’ signing of Albert

By: jwbiii

jwbiii — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:47:29 +0000

The A’s were offering 3/$15M. Iwakuma was for looking much, much more. He went back to Japan and made $3.6M. Dude should have taken the A’s cash.

By: txnative61

txnative61 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:51:15 +0000

Yeah, can she hit?? The Mariners need bats more than arms.

By: crisisjunky

crisisjunky — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:13:18 +0000

was (S)He a 2way player?

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:36:13 +0000

Please. My grandmother could put up a sub-5 ERA in safco. And he’s been dead for two decades.

By: JBerardi

JBerardi — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:34:30 +0000

You realize the $19m wasn’t for him, right?

By: dirtyharry1971

dirtyharry1971 — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:40:22 +0000

one word, BUST!

By: crisisjunky

crisisjunky — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 03:20:43 +0000

“considering where I’m needed and an environment my family can live in..”
pretty much says it all about how he feels about the difference in quality of the life and the baseball organizations in Seattle and Oakland (or wheretofore). There is the City, but who wants to deal with the Bay Bridge if you don’t have to, for some fun and culture.
Iwakuma showed patience and forward thinking to wait.

Seriously, the A’s couldn’t have offered him much, Billy having emptied his Levi’s down to the lint
to scrape up the 19mm posting fee.

This is a feather for Jack Z, A.L. Westers should start glomming on to all the Arms they can.

By: shawnuel

shawnuel — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:55:35 +0000

If he gets back to 88-92 MPH on his fastball velocity and retains his audacious control, this could turn out to be a very astute pick-up.

By: natsattack

natsattack — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:09:33 +0000

Dude should have taken the A’s cash.