Doubleheader Recap: Tigers Sweep, Twins Sink To 3rd Place

[Aerodeliria]

I'll bet we could get Kikuchi from the Mariners. Sure his ERA is not very good but he's started showing flashes of his days in Japan. I think he's finally healthy too. (He can bring it at 98 for those of you who are wondering.)

[Otto von Ballpark]

 

I'll bet we could Kikuchi from the Mariners. Sure his ERA is not very good but he's started showing flashes of his days in Japan. I think he's finally healthy too. (He can bring it at 98 for those of you who are wondering.)

How confident are you in Kikuchi going forward? He's set to make $17 mil next year, plus a $13 mil player option for 2022.

[Doctor Gast]

I think Dobnak pitched a good game. He did what he does best, get grounders. Our defense line up really sucks behind Dobnak, w/ Dobnak style we need a decent defense behind him.

[Aerodeliria]

 

How confident are you in Kikuchi going forward? He's set to make $17 mil next year, plus a $13 mil player option for 2022.

I'm thinking of forward actually. When pitchers are dinged up, they don't pitch like they are able to. I've seen him pitch in Japan and when he's comfortable, he can completely dominate (very similar to Darvish, who is now finally healthy and mowing everyone down, but Kikuchi doesn't have his own museum yet, so maybe we should hold off). I also like Yamaguchi, but I doubt the Blue Jays are ready to jettison him. He's starting to pitch the way I imagined he would. (Yamaguchi is designated as long-relief, which is weird because in Japan, he had been converted into a starter and now he's back to relief, but he is a horse. I watched one game where he threw over 140 pitches and another where he threw over 130. He throws everything but the kitchen sink to hitters and spots his fastball now and then. Eventually, he'll probably end up as a starter, I would guess.) I guess I'm always in the tank for Japanese players.

[Otto von Ballpark]

I'm thinking of forward actually. When pitchers are dinged up, they don't pitch like they are able to. I've seen him pitch in Japan and when he's comfortable, he can completely dominate (very similar to Darvish, who is now finally healthy and mowing everyone down, but Kikuchi doesn't have his own museum yet, so maybe we should hold off).

But by the time they get a museum, it is usually too late to acquire them affordably!

 

I haven’t seen any trade chatter about Kikuchi, but maybe it’s just assumed that every Mariners player is available all the time. On the other hand, the Mariners payroll is already pretty low, so they may not feel as much pressure to dump salary anymore.

 

Here is a Rays blogger who was targeting him, at least, with some info on his pitch usage and results in 2019-2020:

 

https://www.draysbay.com/2020/8/28/21404691/rays-pitcher-trade-targets-seattle-arizona-cincinnati-detroit

[Aerodeliria]

 

But by the time they get a museum, it is usually too late to acquire them affordably!

I haven’t seen any trade chatter about Kikuchi, but maybe it’s just assumed that every Mariners player is available all the time. On the other hand, the Mariners payroll is already pretty low, so they may not feel as much pressure to dump salary anymore.

Here is a Rays blogger who was targeting him, at least, with some info on his pitch usage and results in 2019-2020:

https://www.draysbay.com/2020/8/28/21404691/rays-pitcher-trade-targets-seattle-arizona-cincinnati-detroit

 

 

Thanks!