Darvish Article

Check out this article in today's New York Times about 22-year-old Japanese pitcher, Yu Darvish.

Former Mets pitcher, Masato Yoshii, -- who is familiar with both Darvish and Daisuke Matsuzaka -- says that Darvish is "more talented" than Matsuzaka and "he has exceptional control of every pitch known to man except a knuckleball." Wow.

Darvish isn't a free agent until 2014, so there would be a posting fee involved if he wants to pitch in the United States before that. Maybe the Red Sox should start saving up?

There are videos of Darvish over at Darvis Watch and we will get a chance to see him pitch for Japan in the World Baseball Classic in March.

Get that new guy a pair of batting gloves, seriously

We're not under the misguided impression that Daisuke Matsuzaka is a superhero -- really -- although we don't think he'd look completely out of place behind the wheel of the Batmobile. We are however, impressed by his "superhuman skillset": 1) He can chug 2) He can pitch and now 3) Red Sox Monster has unearthed this video of Matsuzaka going deep in Japan. Daisuke can hit!

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