An old friend lands in Oakland
ByWhile we waited out our server problems and the Cliff Lee news, the A’s picked up an old Yankee friend of ours. Hideki Matsui and Oakland came to terms on a one-year deal believed to be worth just south of $5 million. He’ll be introduced at the Coliseum later today.
Matsui left New York after winning the 2009 World Series MVP, and he turned in a solid 1.9-win season for the Angels last year. He hit .274/.361/.459 with 21 home runs in 554 plate appearances and even managed to survive 123 innings in left field. While the signing could be a good one for the A’s, Matsui is moving to a home stadium where left-handed batters hit just .241/.325/.349 with just 32 home runs in 2549 plate appearances last year. Playing out his age 37 season in a pitcher’s park, Matsui could very well see his production fall off the table in 2011. Buyer beware.
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Good luck, Matsui. This word is so lame but he was always classy.
And he had that great porn collection too. Class-y.
matsui had a porn collection?
The largest.
Here you go. (SFW)
Someone needs to show him how to use the internet.
55,000 porn videos? Good for him, I love art also.
This porn story comes from his mention of watching such videos
like other men in a situation where he would have played a man
of high moral otherwise. A mean reporter asked him when he was young.
He was and is a big star so once he says he likes chocolate for example people will believe matui eats a lot of it day and night.
Wait, are you saying he mentioned watching videos of men?
Of course not ! I should have put “did” after men.
His girl friends were found rooting for him at the Yankee
stadium but he was not much of clutch until he introduced
his wife by shouwing that picture of her.Some doubted her
existence but she was pictured couple of times.
Wanted to let you know your RSS to Facebook showed this story about 2 hours early.
Yep. We had scheduled this for earlier but bounced it right after it was published for the Prior news. Thanks.
BUT BILLY BEANE
It must be smart!
Who are you even trying to mock here?
He doesn’t even know anymore.
He mocks himself sir!
So he can be friends with Kurt Suzuki?
/Kay’d
Yes, Kurt is Japanese-American but Kay-Pax probably can’t tell the difference.
Matsui is moving to a home stadium where left-handed batters hit just .241/.325/.349 with just 32 home runs in 2549 plate appearances last year.
This is true, but how much of that was the A’s employed a lot of lousy hitters?
They only look lousy. Remember, it’s Billy Beane. They actually had some cosmic force that mysteriously contributed numbers to the win column.
Don’t you mean Brad Pitt?
Guess I won’t be drafing ‘sui in any of my fantasy leagues next year…