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random Kyojin foo (so I remember to go read up on it later)
The Yomiuri Giants' list of possible free agents:
P Kudoh Kimiyasu
IF Kiyohara Kazuhiro
IF Etoh Akira
IF Kokubo Hiroki
IF Nishi Toshihisa
OF Gotoh Koji
OF Tuffy Rhodes
OF Shimizu Takayuki
OF Ide Tatsuya
Hooooooly crap. I doubt most of them will leave the team (though Nishi and Shimizu have already posted for free agency, and I wouldn't be surprised if Kiyohara decides to retire in a year or three), but still, that's a scary list. The 7 best hitters on the Giants this year were Takahashi, Kokubo, Shimizu, Abe, Petagine, Nishi, and Rhodes... and 4 of those guys are up for free agency.
I guess the real big hole here would be if Nishi left. He's definitely an above-average second baseman by Japanese standards. Maybe the Mariners should pursue him if he wants to come to the MLB -- he might be an upgrade on Boone :) I suppose that either Motoki or Nioka could do a decent job as the starting 2B if it came down to it, though (but it's better with Motoki at 3rd, Nioka as SS, Nishi as 2B, and Kiyohara at 1B)
Still, a great amount of the runs produced by the Kyojin as a whole this year were by Rhodes and Kokubo. Losing them from the lineup would hurt a great deal as well.
Especially since the team currently has very little in the way of pitching aside from maybe Koji Uehara. Ugh.
Hey, maybe Ide will go back to the Fighters. Ha.
(On another note, I saw in the possible FA list people like Atsuya Furuta and Yukio Tanaka. Why do they even bother listing -- someone who's spent 18 years with a team isn't going to leave them now, y'know?)
P Kudoh Kimiyasu
IF Kiyohara Kazuhiro
IF Etoh Akira
IF Kokubo Hiroki
IF Nishi Toshihisa
OF Gotoh Koji
OF Tuffy Rhodes
OF Shimizu Takayuki
OF Ide Tatsuya
Hooooooly crap. I doubt most of them will leave the team (though Nishi and Shimizu have already posted for free agency, and I wouldn't be surprised if Kiyohara decides to retire in a year or three), but still, that's a scary list. The 7 best hitters on the Giants this year were Takahashi, Kokubo, Shimizu, Abe, Petagine, Nishi, and Rhodes... and 4 of those guys are up for free agency.
I guess the real big hole here would be if Nishi left. He's definitely an above-average second baseman by Japanese standards. Maybe the Mariners should pursue him if he wants to come to the MLB -- he might be an upgrade on Boone :) I suppose that either Motoki or Nioka could do a decent job as the starting 2B if it came down to it, though (but it's better with Motoki at 3rd, Nioka as SS, Nishi as 2B, and Kiyohara at 1B)
Still, a great amount of the runs produced by the Kyojin as a whole this year were by Rhodes and Kokubo. Losing them from the lineup would hurt a great deal as well.
Especially since the team currently has very little in the way of pitching aside from maybe Koji Uehara. Ugh.
Hey, maybe Ide will go back to the Fighters. Ha.
(On another note, I saw in the possible FA list people like Atsuya Furuta and Yukio Tanaka. Why do they even bother listing -- someone who's spent 18 years with a team isn't going to leave them now, y'know?)
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Who is, by all accounts, making an attempt to join the mass exodus to the majors. Heh.
Oh well. I think I've made it clear in the past how I only hate the Giants just a smidge less than I hate the Yankees. :)
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The thing is, I just can't see the Giants falling into the second division, no matter how much they lose of their power. Interesting to see if any of the FA's go to the new Sendai team...