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MLB: Who Would You Rather Have

Who would you rather have?

  • Strasburg

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • Darvish

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • Total voters
    17
cybsball20

cybsball20

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Right now, Steven Strasburg or Yu Darvish?

Strasburg, 98-103 mph fastball with good location and movement, tough breaking ball...
4-0 1.87 34 ip 74k 7bb in college
Boras client, looking at 7 years 60 mil right out of the draft

Darvish, 95-98 mph fastball, great location, nasty slider.
16-4 1.88 200.2ip 208k 53bb in Japan

will probably require a record posting fee and salary for a Japanese player
 
Darvish just so I don't have to deal with Boras. Plus, I watched Darvish pitch and his stuff was plenty nasty for my liking. Didn't he throw Mr. Splitty as well?
 
I'd take the American, less time adjusting the culture (although Darvish seems pretty in tune to that).
 
BryceC said:
I'd take the American, less time adjusting the culture (although Darvish seems pretty in tune to that).
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I don't think Darvish will have the tough time adjusting. I beleive he has already lived in the States before and has pretty much lived all over the world.

Personally, I am about as close as you can be to 50-50, leaning towards Darvish...
 
cybsball20 said:
I don't think Darvish will have the tough time adjusting. I beleive he has already lived in the States before and has pretty much lived all over the world.

Personally, I am about as close as you can be to 50-50, leaning towards Darvish...
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I believe that one of his parents is Iranian.
 
Japanese hitters are hit and miss (no pun intended), but as Dice-k proves, if you can pitch well in the WBC, you can beat major league batting.

I'd take Darvish as he has more experience vs. major league hitting.
 
Darvish, for two reasons:

1. Isn't there a nasty stereotype that pitchers that throw over 100 mph on a regular basis have more shoulder/arm problems than those that don't (with Randy Johnson being one of the rarer exceptions)? How true is that stereotype?

2. As someone else already said, I don't want to have to deal with Boras if I don't have to.
 
jdoggivjc said:
Darvish, for two reasons:

1. Isn't there a nasty stereotype that pitchers that throw over 100 mph on a regular basis have more shoulder/arm problems than those that don't (with Randy Johnson being one of the rarer exceptions)? How true is that stereotype?

2. As someone else already said, I don't want to have to deal with Boras if I don't have to.
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It's quite possibly true. The amount of torque on the arm is much higher. Don't remember what I was reading (possibly it was on here...but I think it was in "The Yankee Years") but it said that 110 mph was the hardest a human could possibly throw because of how our body is engineered. As speed increases, torque on the shoulder does so you would expect an increase in problems.
 
jdoggivjc said:
Darvish, for two reasons:

1. Isn't there a nasty stereotype that pitchers that throw over 100 mph on a regular basis have more shoulder/arm problems than those that don't (with Randy Johnson being one of the rarer exceptions)? How true is that stereotype?

2. As someone else already said, I don't want to have to deal with Boras if I don't have to.
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There is a stereotype, but I don't believe it. And I agree 100% with #2. If it were down to these two for my team, I would go with Darvish.
 
I'll take John Danks for 400k.

Honestly, could there be an option for neither? I mean, if you're including their salary demands, they aren't a great fit for most teams.
 
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