Jan
18
2012

Rangers Sign Darvish To Six-Year, $60 Million Deal

An article by Hojo's Mojo

The Texas Rangers and Japanese RHP Yu Darvish have agreed to a six-year contract just before today’s 5:00 pm ET deadline, according to multiple reports.

The two sides agreed on a multi-year contract that will pay him in the neighborhood of $10 million per season for six seasons.

GM Jon Daniels and Darvish’s agents worked late into the night Tuesday and resumed negotiations today as the deadline approached. Team president Nolan Ryan joined the negotiations this morning to help nail down a deal.

Darvish, 25, went 18-6 with a 1.44 ERA and a league-leading 276 strikeouts in 232 innings last season.

Now we’ll all get to see if he’s really as phenomenal as everyone says he is.

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9 Comments + Add Comment

Joe Diaz January 18, 2012 at 5:57 pm

WFAN announced that the contract was for 50 million.
Mr North Jersey January 18, 2012 at 5:57 pm

So the Rangers paid in total $111.7M for Darvish.
$51.7M bid
$60M contract

MLB says you can watch the press conference at 6:15 here.
http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?topic_id=6261176
- jessep January 18, 2012 at 6:47 pm
  
  nice job. I mean I know I was such a moron for thinking the total investment would be $125m. I mean I was WAY off, man I’m so stupid! (sarcasm)
  
  60/6 is better for Texas than I thought. Nice job by Ryan and his staff.
  - trs86 January 18, 2012 at 7:06 pm
    
    Sometimes… often…. you bring the issues on yourself.
  - Alex68 January 19, 2012 at 7:51 am
    
    FI.
Bob L January 18, 2012 at 10:27 pm

Good deal. Kid’s gotta be for real. Even Bobby V said as much….wish, just wish, we had had the cash to even entertain the bid.
Hank January 18, 2012 at 11:18 pm

Anyone else rooting for the Rangers to also sign Prince just so he doesn’t end up in Washington??
- trs86 January 19, 2012 at 5:43 am
  
  Sure.
- theonlymaskman January 20, 2012 at 8:01 am
  
  It’s sad when staying ahead of Washington is our main concern. Unfortunately, we will finish behind the Nats even without Darvish on their side.

NL East Standings

Team	W	L	Pct.	GB
Braves	25	18	.581	-
Nationals	23	21	.523	2.5
Phillies	21	23	.477	4.5
Mets	17	24	.415	7.0
Marlins	12	32	.273	13.5

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