John Shea reporting we are close to signing him to a minor league deal.

Anyone know much about him?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Kensuke_Tanaka

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=tanaka001ken

Wasn't he the guy in Major League 2?

http://www.notrecinema.com/images/filmsi/les-indians-ii_418248_7715.jpg

Poopoo Chachaka? Never heard of him.

random Liriano post, since its always good to keep beating a dead horse:

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8828012/francisco-liriano-not-sign-pittsburgh-pirates-injuring-arm

Hopefully Pablo doesn't have a Joboo in his locker or him and Tanaka are gonna have issues

See Japanese Wikipedia in a tlanslation.
http://urx.nu/2ZbS

Also "Kensuke_Tanaka" of Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensuke_Tanaka

Very informative. thanks!

8O)

low risk, high reward

rangers were very interested in him for a straight ml contract

wonder what happened

They closed their wallets after they signed Lance Jerkman

RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(yes I got one, what do I win?)

Sexist???

I have to accuse you of some sort of prejudice, or I won't receive my prize.

I love how google translates HBP in his stats as "Death Sphere"

I love how Japanese translates into English.

"The current San Francisco Giants belong to the umbrella."

"Despite being highly valued sense blow from the time he joined, there were a defense is unable to colonize the first team in the challenge"

Another mechanical translation:

"Now, he belongs under the San Francisco Giants influence. "

"Although the blow sense was evaluated highly from the joining time, defense was required, without the ability to be fixed to the first team with a subject, but batting average .313 will be recorded by a reserve grade from the 1st (2000) year, it will be promoted to the first team in September, and a pro first hit will be recorded. "

Ha ha. :-)

The joke in Japan is that you do have to fight to eat their ham that this company sells.

""Although the blow sense was evaluated highly from the joining time, defense was required, without the ability to be fixed to the first team with a subject, but batting average .313 will be recorded by a reserve grade from the 1st (2000) year, it will be promoted to the first team in September, and a pro first hit will be recorded. ""

LOL I wish I could write posts like that to people. That's some professional nonsense.