A stable force in Matsuzaka deal
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There are many fathers to the saga of how Daisuke Matsuzaka wound up with the Red Sox. Dan Okimoto is the only one born in a racetrack stable.
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While the stars take their time, midlevel free agents are starting to make deals.
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Several factors went into Omar Minaya&#39;s decision to hire Willie Randolph as the new manager of the Mets. One of them involved Kaz Matsui.
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Japan&#39;s baseball players are likely to decide not to strike again with club representatives set to accept their demand to allow a new league team from next season.
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a $21 million, three-year contract, but there may be a hitch in the deal. New. hasn&#39;t determined whether he passed it or failed it.
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The man can pitch. The man can hit. The man can field. Daisuke Matsuzaka played the game of his life last night, picking up the win with 5 1/3 solid innings in the Red Sox' 10-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies.
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Pedro MartÃ­nez could soon receive a contract offer from the Mets that is competitive with the one he has already received from Boston.
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After 29 days of negotiations that veered from stagnant to tense to successful, the Red Sox and Daisuke Matsuzaka agreed to a six-year, $52 million contract late Wednesday.
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BOSTON -- Daisuke Matsuzaka headed to Boston on Wednesday with Red Sox officials, a sign Boston had reached a preliminary contract agreement with the star pitcher.
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We go back to Nov. 14 when the Red Sox outbid the Mets, Yankees, and Rangers for the right to negotiate with Daisuke Matsuzaka.
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Red Sox president Larry Lucchino and general manager Theo Epstein flew 2,700 miles to Los Angeles to see Daisuke Matsuzaka. The pitching ace traveled twice that distance from Japan. The man they all came to see was Scott Boras, Matsuzaka's agent.
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Omar Minaya may be the only person in baseball prepared to take Sammy Sosa off the Cubs&#39; hands and his recent offer to Pedro Martinez threatens to break up a Red Sox partnership that helped lift an 86-year curse.
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Eight and a half years ago, Daisuke Matsuzaka established his legendary status in Japan with a feat of endurance that is still hard to fathom in the context of Major League Baseball.
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The Red Sox agreed to a contract with a Japanese pitcher &#151; no, not that one.
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NEWPORT BEACH, California  - Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka has done his homework for next month's spring training with his new Boston Red Sox team mates.
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As Daisuke Matsuzaka prepared to fly from Tokyo for an arrival in Los Angeles tomorrow for the final phase of negotiations with the Red Sox, he may not have been aware that interest in his fate extends to the far reaches of the universe.
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Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is set to make history as the most expensive Japanese player to enter Major League Baseball after the Boston Red Sox sealed a record-breaking deal worth a total $103.1 million.