About Yu Darvish

MEANWHILE, IN JAPAN...

Yu Darvish, in...

The baseball season has begun (first games were postponed until April 12th) amidst the ongoing tension of the Fukushima plant and its continuing vulnerability. For more, check out the ongoing coverage here and here.

...and out of his uniform.

From an American perspective, the biggest news with respect to Japanese pro yakyu remains the likely 2012 arrival of rock-star pitcher Yu Darvish. The 6'5" Darvish is 58-22 over his past four seasons with the Nippon-Ham Fighters of the Japanese Pacific League, and he possesses the alluring, half-Asian/half-Middle Eastern looks to spark all kinds of mayhem in a major American metropolitan area.