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Originally Posted by Westheim
If Kodai Senga was as good as many claim, he'd not cost $15m a year, but I will graciously allow him to win me over.
Can't be worse than the last(?) Japanese Mets pitcher. Anybody remember the Dice-K Clock?
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Daisuke, like Hideo Nomo before him, was an established MLB pitcher; the Mets had relevant data from which to work.
This is guessing how well Senga's skills will translate across the Pacific (and this continent). Sometimes this works…and sometimes it doesn't.
The Mets have had their share of "doesn't" cases, from Kaz Matsui to Tsuyoshi Shinjo to Hisanori Takahashi to Ryota Igarashi and doubtless others.
It would be nice if Senga bucked that trend. That said, I'm less sanguine about it than if (previous) Mets regimes had had success with such cases.