He was absolutely miserable during his time with the team. The Diamondbacks decided that Ortiz was not worth keeping around. He was cut less than two seasons into the four-year deal. The Atlanta Braves signed Kenshin Kawakami with the hopes that he...

0.042 0.144 0.191 Ishii signed with the Dodgers in 2002, spending three years in their rotation. After one more with the Mets, he also returned to Japan. Wild in Japan, he walked even more here and also underperformed his projected strikeout rate,...

Crasnick hears from a source that two Major League teams were interested in Penny, but it's not clear if either team actually made Penny an offer. Multiple reports out of Japan say Kenshin Kawakami is close to signing a one-year deal with the Chunichi...

And Darvish's second-worst ERA over those five years puts him below the best seasons by Hiroki Kuroda or Hisashi Iwakuma. He punched out 272 in 232 innings in Japan last season while walking just 30 unintentionally, career-best rates in

The biggest example of the lack of patience on the Braves' part was during the summer of 2009 when the Braves desperately needed starting pitching. In response to that need, they signed Derek Lowe, Kenshin Kawakami and traded for Javier Vazquez. While...