[jd1020]

"Slight impact."

You really want to die on the hill of a pitcher with a sub 2 ERA at 25 years old is only getting slightly impacted in his contract when the projection is around $200M is absolutely ****ing hilarious. If he was putting up those numbers in MLB at his age he'd be looking at $400M+.

And that's not the entire list. Look up Michael Nakamura. Even a guy like Kenta Maeda, while mildly successful in MLB, has seen his ERA jump to nearly 4 in his MLB career versus 2.3 in NPB because he gives up double the HRs. Yusei Kikuchi. Kyuji Fujikawa. Shintaro Fujinami. I could keep going but there's no point. Yamamoto is a literal ****ing prospect who just happened to go through the "minor league" process in a foreign professional league that allows him to be a FA and teams aren't awarded the opportunity to pay him league minimum for 3 years with 3 years of arbitration. They have to stick their head out a little bit to get him, but its far from having to pay full market value, because it's unknown how good he'll actually be in MLB.