Sunday, December 4, 2011
Fox Sports: Darvish needs to act ‘post’ haste
It’s all very tantalizing — that is, if Darvish ever agrees to be posted.
“I am told the club and player cannot agree on what is an acceptable posting fee,” a scouting executive with one club told Morosi.
“The player, I am told, is very quirky with a huge ego. Apparently he will feel disrespected if the post is less than Matsuzaka’s was with Boston.”
Okayyy…
Another scout who covers Japanese baseball says that Hokkaido badly wants to collect the posting fee on Darvish — and was stunned and disappointed when he chose to return to the team last season.
Hokkaido had planned to post Darvish, the scout said, and when the pitcher chose to stay in Japan, the team had to scramble to squeeze his salary into its budget.
So much gossip. So much intrigue. So little time.
“It just doesn’t make sense to wait,” said one executive from a team with interest in Darvish. “Teams want to make their plans. If you start thinking he’s not coming, you go a different way.”
I get the sense that it’s Darvish or nothing for the Yankees at this point. They seem to have little real interest in C.J. Wilson.
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