A cheap option for the back of our rotation?

Eri Yoshida is going to be playing in the instructional Arizona Winter League, trying to attract the attention of scouts.

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Sign her!

It would get some buns in the seats for sure.

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by BubbaFan on Dec 18, 2009 12:09 AM EST reply actions

heheh, girl pitcher, heheh, buns

Seriously though, I’d love to see it. I’d also love to see the first girl “real” pitcher, throwing an 86 mph fastball and nasty breaking stuff. It’s the next barrier to be broken down, and needs to happen.

On a side note, because I’m dumb: is it specified in the MLB rules that a pitcher HAS to throw overhand? The underhand motion is far more efficient IIRC, and would obviously benefit any woman who came up playing fast pitch.

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by jch24 on Dec 18, 2009 10:35 PM EST up reply actions

Nope, there are definitely underarm pitchers in mlb - Chad Bradford throws underam.

I was talking with a friend and we agreed that it would be great if a team would go out and draft/sign, say, the four best college softball pitchers, and just see how it turns out.

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by andromache on Dec 19, 2009 2:22 AM EST up reply actions

he looks like he's throwing dice

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by Slyde on Dec 19, 2009 8:47 AM EST up reply actions

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by Farneyismycopilot on Dec 19, 2009 1:11 PM EST up reply actions

He looks like something went wrong in utero.

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by Fat Vegas Alan on Dec 20, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions

that just doesn't look natural

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by joshuar9476 on Dec 19, 2009 10:53 PM EST up reply actions

I think there is a rule, now

there was that fast-pitch dude who came into spring training camps and made everyone look silly. The pitchers basically threw a fit and refused to pitch unless everyone pitched how MEN pitched

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by Cy Schourek on Dec 19, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions

I think it has to do with something like "Starting from an overhand position"

Bradford could get away with it because he would dip his shoulder and come around and up. A softball pitcher has no dip — all throws are straight ahead.

I believe that’s the ’technical’* difference.

*by technical I mean old-school, crusty, be a man’s-man definition

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by Farneyismycopilot on Dec 19, 2009 1:13 PM EST up reply actions

I'd love to see her get a chance to prove herself.

Especially if it were in Goodyear.

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by PeteyHendrix on Dec 18, 2009 12:45 AM EST reply actions

Even I would option for the back of THAT rotation

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by Excalib8 on Dec 18, 2009 7:00 AM EST reply actions

Let's bring her in.

2yrs/$6mil guaranteed should do it, don’t you think?

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by nycredsfan on Dec 18, 2009 12:13 PM EST reply actions

Works for everyone else who dates Dusty's daughter.

Except that if there’s a webcam, we might be able to recoup most of that salary this time. :P

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by PeteyHendrix on Dec 18, 2009 7:50 PM EST up reply actions

I especially like how well spoken she is.

It is good that she is fluent in the Kyoto-ben dialect…otherwise it would have been hard to understand her.

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by Madville on Dec 18, 2009 2:57 PM EST reply actions