The Blue Jays have finally landed a player directly from the seemingly-hot Japanese baseball leagues. The Blue Jays have signed Ken Takahashi to a minor league deal. Keep in mind, my friends, that this is no Daisuke Matsusakakakkiki, and not even close to an Ichiro... well, if Ichiro was a pitcher... anyway, it just shows one important thing: that the Blue Jays have finally dipped into the Japanese baseball hot-bed and came out with, well, a bite.
Keeping in mind that Takahashi is almost 40, I can't see him making much of an impact. However, the silver-lining here is that he is a lefty, and that it would take the other teams in MLB quite a while to 'figure him out', so to speak. So, perhaps he does break camp with the team and heads North for Opening Day. If he does, however, does this mean that Scott Downs could be on his way to the rotation? Questions, questions... and not a lot of damn answers this off-season.
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