Saito said after his first year in the bigs that he’d be open to returning to Japan, so it could happen. He does have a partially torn elbow ligament, so he’s a health risk at this point.

I’d love to see him go back to Japan and show a whole team of pitchers what he did in America to be so much more effective than he was in Japan.

Or even the Baystars. Terahara could use a mentor…

Oh well, I can dream.

I really hope Kenshin will go to an NL team — I still have a dream of seeing him hit a home run in person someday. It was the one of my Three Chunichi Goals for this year (the other two being seeing a Masa start and getting my photo with Doala) that I didn’t manage to accomplish. I suppose seeing Dragonbutt Morino hit an outside-the-stadium home run right over my head almost made up for it, but still.

Plus this “half of Japan follows Golden Boy to Boston” thing has GOT TO STOP. NOW.