How to handle Hisashi Iwakuma

[cezero]

Any team with a payroll under $170 million that signs Iwakuma for any more than 2 years at $15 million/year is very foolish.

But I guess I should apologize to the AZ fan, because it looks like it might actually happen.

If it's the M's, I'll throw my tv out the window.

Dodgers are highly interested in Kuma evidently.

Will make perfect sense if they sign him for absurd money. Only slightly less surprising than if we did it.

 

[ehwq]

From Seattle Times: "If Iwakuma signs a free-agent deal with another team, the Mariners would receive a compensatory “sandwich” pick between the first and second rounds of the 2016 draft. Any team that signs Iwakuma must forfeit its first-round pick for the 2016 draft with the exception of teams holding a top-10 pick. Those teams would forfeit their second-round pick."



I wouldn't mind letting him go if another team wants to overpay, since they get a fairly high draft prospect and could potentially sign someone like Wei-Yen Chen, Buehrle, Cliff Lee.

 

[NWinAZ]

Ken Rosenthal ‏@Ken_Rosenthal 2m2 minutes ago

Sources: #Dodgers making push for Iwakuma.

Iwakuma attractive to #Dodgers and other teams in part because at 34, he will not require as long a deal.

 

[NWinAZ]

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeymanCBS 29s29 seconds ago

Dodgers are working on iwakuma

 

[unlvmariners]

I am good with taking the pick for him.

 

[NWinAZ]

I am good with taking the pick for him.

Me too.