[+] Sanspo: Igarashi has basic agreement with the Mets:...

[+] Sanspo: Igarashi has basic agreement with the Mets: http://www.sanspo.com/baseball/news/091217/bsf0912171034001-n1.htm [Japanese Website]

[+] Arn Tellem "I think Igarashi is a member of the Mets. We're working out the fine points of the contract" [Japanese Text]「五十嵐はもうメッツの一員だと思う。（契約の）細部を詰めているところ」

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Yes!

take that Theo

by Gina on Dec 16, 2009 9:03 PM EST reply actions

Haha

The only reason I’m even slightly excited about this signing is the fact that the Red Sox had interest in Igarashi. That must mean something.

by englishgrey on Dec 16, 2009 10:21 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

Super

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 16, 2009 9:03 PM EST reply actions

I like it...I feel like this is a good upside move to help re-establish ourselves in that market.

Now bring back Bobby V…

"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green

by Stephen Schmidt on Dec 16, 2009 9:06 PM EST reply actions

Holy crap.

Does that mean that Tellem isn’t sure where they stand… or that they forgot to bring an interpreter?

by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Dec 16, 2009 9:10 PM EST reply actions

Hooray?

by Syler on Dec 16, 2009 9:11 PM EST reply actions

I like it

But only if he isn’t some smiling doosh.

Travis Hafner is made of gold

by Super Mario on Dec 16, 2009 9:13 PM EST reply actions

You just know he is.

I bet he claps and yells when he’s happy, too. And you just KNOW he’s one of those ostentatious, constantly-bowing types.

by LeiterMilnerFasterStronger on Dec 16, 2009 9:28 PM EST up reply actions

culturally shows respect to ANYONE on a baseball field Alex Cora had better run over pound him into the ground. Respect does not equal grission, that’s the first rule of the Grish Testament of the Baseball Bible.

Travis Hafner is made of gold

by Super Mario on Dec 16, 2009 9:32 PM EST up reply actions

No

Molina should sit on him

"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'

it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.

by Gina on Dec 16, 2009 9:43 PM EST up reply actions

Theres still hope we wont sign him...

"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green

by Stephen Schmidt on Dec 16, 2009 9:46 PM EST up reply actions

I'd be willing to sign him

if his only role was to sit on crappy players

"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09

by cjmulrain on Dec 16, 2009 10:31 PM EST up reply actions

mmm'kay

"We're just as bad as the old Mets, but this time nobody's laughing"
-Dallas Green

by Stephen Schmidt on Dec 16, 2009 10:08 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah

I just saw it for the first time after a few beers, and now I feel sick

by deadspy3 on Dec 17, 2009 12:43 AM EST up reply actions

let me be the first to say

I have no idea what you’re talking about

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Dec 16, 2009 9:57 PM EST up reply actions

Me neither, but it sounds bad.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 16, 2009 10:00 PM EST up reply actions

The Mets have had a bad history of signing Japanese players

Masato Yoshii
Tsuyoshi Shinjo
Kaz Matsui
Shingo Takatsu
Yusaku Iriki (Gawd, what a disaster that turned out to be!)
Ryota Igarashi?

"The picture looked like I was in the dugout, but they got it all wrong. I absolutely was never in the dugout."

- Mr. B.V. Incognito

by sj10689 on Dec 17, 2009 4:15 AM EST reply actions

Did I miss anyone?

"The picture looked like I was in the dugout, but they got it all wrong. I absolutely was never in the dugout."

- Mr. B.V. Incognito

by sj10689 on Dec 17, 2009 4:15 AM EST up reply actions

If it's a cheap contract, I don't mind.

by Michkin on Dec 17, 2009 6:13 AM EST up reply actions

you take that back about Tsuyoshi Shinjo!

he was better at attempting to play baseball while wearing bright orange armbands than any player i can think of!

by KeithsMoustache on Dec 17, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

I, for one, will always be grateful for Tsuyoshi Shinjo

If not for his time with the Mets, we wouldn’t have good folks like Ted Berg trolling YouTube to find random videos of Shinjo being awesome.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Dec 17, 2009 1:05 PM EST up reply actions

You're forgetting Komiyama and Takahashi

and if you’re counting Takatsu then you might as well count Kaz Ishii and Nomo as all three are Japanese-born players that were already were in the MLB before coming to Mets. Anyways, Yoshii was kind of decent for the Mets with an ERA+ of 107 and 101 in his two seasons with the Mets and Shinjo had, by all accounts, a great glove and was kind of Endy before Endy before his bat disappered. The other players pretty much performed as well as should have been expected sans Matsui. So, I wouldn’t say the Mets have a bad history of signing Japanese players, just more that they tend to be overhyped by the media and Kaz Matsui didn’t perform as well as anyone predicted.

the number one issue facing the Mets is finding that one guy who’s going to say "get on my shoulders and ride me to the championship."

by Sokojoe on Dec 17, 2009 12:49 PM EST up reply actions

Hopefully

they won’t move Johan to second base to make room for Igarashi.

by Mount17 on Dec 17, 2009 1:34 PM EST up reply actions

Yoshii and Shinjo were awesome

and I never even heard of Iriki or Igarashi. Matsui was the only one who really didn’t live up to expectations

by cjmulrain on Dec 17, 2009 1:36 PM EST up reply actions

Mets got the wrong Matsui.

by Michkin on Dec 17, 2009 1:38 PM EST up reply actions

Looks like the type of guy

who can benefit from a good pitching coach. Oh well.

by Mount17 on Dec 17, 2009 9:38 AM EST reply actions

what?

don’t you realize it wasn’t that our pitchers were crappy, or our pitching coach was so-so.

it as because Omir couldn’t call games!

hence the stockpiling of catchers rather than bringing in new pitchers, Omar’s got it all figured out

"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'

it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.

by Gina on Dec 17, 2009 1:45 PM EST up reply actions

He couldn't call games

cus he only ever has a clenched fist – after pumping it wildly rounding the bases against Jonathon Papelbon, he lost the ability to move his fingers. He’s a toughy and played through it, but all the pitchers ever saw was the pitch out sign, hence leading the league in walks.

Travis Hafner is made of gold

by Super Mario on Dec 17, 2009 1:51 PM EST up reply actions