[blog] The trouble with Tazawa

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The trouble with Tazawa

The Red Sox, based on some reports, are close to signing Junichi Tazawa
of Japan. He’s a 22-year-old Japanese amateur player who has a chance to
be pretty good depending on the scout you ask. Others think he doesn’t
throw hard enough.

But whether Tazawa is any good or not isn’t the point. The point is that
he is an amateur player and by signing him, the Red Sox would break a
decades-old informal agreement between the Major Leagues and the Japanese
leagues not to pilfer amateur players from each other’s country.

For the Japanese, this is a huge potential problem. If they can’t keep
their best players in the Pacific and Central Leagues for at least a few
years, the quality of their baseball will quickly diminish.

So what do you care? You’re a fan of the Yankees, not Japanese baseball.
Here’s the problem: The Yankees could have five or six picks in the first
50 slots of the draft in June. What is keeping a well-financed Japanese team
from sending scouts to high school or college games in the United States
in May and signing top prospects? Nothing.

No, they wouldn’t get everybody. But they could make a dent in the quality
of the draft. Think Scott Boras might like that option for a client who goes
in the first round? That would be leverage.

Several teams scouted and are pursuing Tazawa, but the Yankees sat this
one out. Brian Cashman said from the start that he would abide by the
agreement, as did most teams. This is a mess for MLB, which can’t force
teams like Boston to abide by rules that don’t really exist.

The solution would be to come up with an ironclad rule and perhaps that
will be the legacy Tazawa leaves. But for now, there’s a hole in the
system and some teams that don’t care about doing the right thing are
walking through it.

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As for the rest of the hot stove, it seems like everybody is waiting
for CC Sabathia to make his move. Once Sabathia makes a decision, that
will clarify what the Dodgers, Angels and Yankees do and the ripples go
out from there. Sabathia’s decision also figures to prod A.J. Burnett
into a move.

As of right now, the only known offers are from the Yankees and Brewers.
Agent Greg Genske does not have any leaks in his organization, however,
so nobody is quite sure where the big lefty stands. It’s a waiting game.


http://yankees.lhblogs.com/2008/11/24/the-trouble-with-tazawa/

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