Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
December 11, 2007
Bidding for Kuroda

The Arizona Diamondbacks upped the money they're willing to pay Hiroki Kuroda.

The Diamondbacks recently improved their contract offer to Japanese free agent Hiroki Kuroda, going up in dollars but not years from their original offer of three years and $27 million.

Although the details are unknown, the new offer is believed to be structured to include more money over the final two years of the deal.

It is easier for the Diamondbacks to structure the deal that way because they have fewer dollars committed to their 2009 and 2010 payrolls.

Kuroda's stats through 2006 can be found on this page (scroll down). His strikeouts are good but not outstanding, but his control is very good. He's not as good Matsuzaka, and we saw that Dice-K had problems his first year. But because he's a free agent, the money goes to him and not his club, so a team can spend less overall.


Posted by David Pinto at 07:15 AM | Free Agents | TrackBack (0)
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