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Japanese 3B Nobuhiro Matsuta of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks has signed with the Legacy Agency. Peter Greenberg representing.

https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/673231777461379073

 

Matsuta, 32, hit .290 with 35 HRs for NBP champions. Several big league clubs are interested.

https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/673232217150214144

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register...id=matsud001nob

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QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 03:13 PM)
Japanese 3B Nobuhiro Matsuta of Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks has signed with the Legacy Agency. Peter Greenberg representing.

https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/673231777461379073

 

Matsuta, 32, hit .290 with 35 HRs for NBP champions. Several big league clubs are interested.

https://twitter.com/jcrasnick/status/673232217150214144

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/register...id=matsud001nob

A little long in the tooth. Iguchi put up a .903 OPS in Japan in 2013 as a 38 year old. If he is reasonably cheap, he is probably a better choice than David Freese.

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QUOTE (Vance Law @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 07:14 PM)
What does this mean?

You can say there's a pattern of these guys not lasting all that long and so far you're right. Tanaka - elbow problem within a year. Matsuzaka, one big league season with 200 innings. Iwakuma, 1 all-star level year, then down to 130 innings last year.

 

The hitters might be an exeption, but Iguchi didn't last all that long, Fukudome broke down pretty quick. You've got guys like Ichiro and Hiroki Kuroda who are the exceptions, but in general he's not wrong. If we're looking at the Japanese market, it might be another of those "make sure you're ready to compete with this guy this year because the long term risk is high" moves.

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QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 03:57 PM)
A little long in the tooth. Iguchi put up a .903 OPS in Japan in 2013 as a 38 year old. If he is reasonably cheap, he is probably a better choice than David Freese.

 

Bartolo Colon has pitched very well in to his early 40's, therefore pitchers in the U.S. must not be that good.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 5, 2015 -> 04:23 PM)
You can say there's a pattern of these guys not lasting all that long and so far you're right. Tanaka - elbow problem within a year. Matsuzaka, one big league season with 200 innings. Iwakuma, 1 all-star level year, then down to 130 innings last year.

 

The hitters might be an exeption, but Iguchi didn't last all that long, Fukudome broke down pretty quick. You've got guys like Ichiro and Hiroki Kuroda who are the exceptions, but in general he's not wrong. If we're looking at the Japanese market, it might be another of those "make sure you're ready to compete with this guy this year because the long term risk is high" moves.

 

Fukudome was very good in his age 33 season, ok in his age 34 season, bad at 35. That's better than you can say for Nick Swisher, for example. Iguchi was fine at 32, bad at 33. I don't know if there were injuries there or not. You mentioned Ichiro. There's Shin Soo Choo, Nori Aoki who both had good-to-excellent seasons at 32 last year. Hideki Matsui was a very good hitter still in his age 36 season. Kang was excellent last year and is only 28. That's a pretty good track record considering there have only been 16 Japanese or Korean position players in MLB.

 

Matsuda is already 32, but just had his best season ever. He won't get a lot of years or dollars. He'll get a fraction of David Freese's money. At some price, he'd be a sensible stopgap. Particularly if the price were low enough that you would care if you had to release him. But Sox may be too committed to competing at this point to take the risk. If it were 2014, this would be an ideal type move.

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QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 8, 2015 -> 09:18 AM)
Phil Rogers ‏@philgrogers 2m2 minutes ago

#WhiteSox exploring Japanese 3B Nobuhiro Matsuda. He hit a career-high 35 homers last year for #Softbank. Well timed move to US.

 

How many teams are actually still looking for a 3B? I can't think of many and it seems like there are enough options to go around between Lawrie, Matsuda, Freese being available.

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QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Dec 8, 2015 -> 10:08 AM)

 

 

Couple videos of Matsuda

 

Couple things I noticed on other YouTube videos of his (as far as negatives). He struggled versus RH in the WBC. And he chases the breaking pitches down. With that said, obviously a small sample size.

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