Prospect Info and Scouting Report Yu Darvish / RHP, TEX Born 8/16/1986 Osaka, Japan Height 6-5 Weight 185 Bats/Throws R/R ScoutingBook Combine Ranking (5/14/2012): #3 up MiLB.com Season Preview: Unranked or n/a Scout.com/FOX Sports: Unranked or n/a ESPN: Unranked or n/a The Sporting News: Unranked or n/a Baseball America 2012: #4 Baseball Prospectus: Unranked or n/a He's six foot five with a 95mph fastball and he's... Japanese? Well, half- Japaese, at least. Darvish, the Japanese/Iranian wunderkind who's half baseball star and half sex symbol, is Japan's best young pitcher, and his upside is high enough that more than one team felt comfortable giving him a $60M contract, and that's only after spending another $50M for the right to even speak to him in the first place. MLB players who've faced him or played beside him call him one of the best pitchers they've ever seen. His most recent manager calls him 'the best pitcher in the history of Japanese baseball.' And ex-manager Trey Hillman has said that if it was possible, Darvish would be worth 'the rosters of a couple of major league teams' in a fair-value trade. (Then again, Hillman also said that Darvish's rock star cool was like 'Fonzie and Elvis, both at the same time.' so maybe he was having a little too much Sapporo.) --

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