Posting Day: Yu Darvish

[dabynsky]

Seeing a few tweets claiming the Jays are the winner, but I doubt they are official.

 

[nwfisch]

JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman



rumor is, at least 1 darvish bid was "sky" high. may have been "north'' of $50M. again, unconfirmed.

 

[dabynsky]

JonHeymanCBS Jon Heyman



rumor is, at least 1 darvish bid was "sky" high. may have been "north'' of $50M. again, unconfirmed.

I have a hard time seeing Theo throwing more money at a Japanese pitcher than he did for Dice-K, but I would love to be surprised on this one.

 

[Mr. Cub]

50 mil just to talk to the guy? That's redonkulous.

 

[dabynsky]

50 mil just to talk to the guy? That's redonkulous.

50 million just to be able to buy his rights. If the team with the winning bid fails to sign him they get their money back.

 

[dabynsky]

Jeff Passan adds this helpful tweet:

One GM whose team bid on Darvish believes Toronto's the favorite. Another thinks it's Cubs. One more says Mariners. The point: No one knows.

 

[nwfisch]

Jeff Passan adds this helpful tweet:

What's your twitter

 

[dabynsky]

What's your twitter

I don't have one...I just search for things when there is a player movement item I am interested in because it will be on twitter first.

 

[nwfisch]

I don't have one...I just search for things when there is a player movement item I am interested in because it will be on twitter first.

Get one :date:

 

[Mr. Cub]

50 million just to be able to buy his rights. If the team with the winning bid fails to sign him they get their money back.

Well that makes it better.

 

[bbaker]

When's the winner being announced? Anyone know? I know the deadline was at 5pm today, but that's it.

 

[waldo7239117]

When's the winner being announced? Anyone know? I know the deadline was at 5pm today, but that's it.

Any day... But officialy, Darvish's team has to have decision by Tuesday.

 

[dabynsky]

When's the winner being announced? Anyone know? I know the deadline was at 5pm today, but that's it.

The Japanese team has 4 (business) days to accept the offer. That means it is possible we won't know til Tuesday. Most sources seem to indicate that the Japanese team will accept the bid and that the bid is very high. Some seemed to indicate that we might know tonight but sometime tomorrow seems more likely. Ultimately we don't know anything except that by Tuesday it will be announced if the bid for Darvish was accepted.

 

[dabynsky]

NBC is reporting the list of teams bidding and not bidding as follows:
MADE BID

Yankees
Cubs
Rangers
Blue Jays

DID NOT BID

Rays
Angels
Twins
Orioles
Red Sox
Reds
Marlins

 

[WindyCity]

There are rumors - just rumors from anonymous people - that the Cubs and Jays put in the biggest bids, but the Jays won. Again: just rumors.

@DKnobler Senior Baseball Writer for CBSSports.com is reporting that the Nippon-Ham Fighters are very excited with the bid, and the implication is they will accept the bid.

 

[X]

Kind of hope the Blue Jays get him -- one less player in the Prince sweepstakes

 

[dabynsky]

Kind of hope the Blue Jays get him -- one less player in the Prince sweepstakes

If that were to happen I would be okay with itB but even given the track record of Japanese imports you don't get many chances to get a 25 year old top of the roto starter by just paying cash.

 

[X]

If that were to happen I would be okay with itB but even given the track record of Japanese imports you don't get many chances to get a 25 year old top of the roto starter by just paying cash.

I just don't trust the game translation...Ichiro's been the only real success story. Dice-K, Fuk...ugh.

 

[Rice Cube]

Dice-K was pretty damned good the first two seasons. Then he broke.

 

[X]

Dice-K was pretty damned good the first two seasons. Then he was figured out.

:yep: