Yankees sign former Red Sox reliever Hideki Okajima

[Big Bid'Ness]

From:NBCSports.com

Hideki Okajima spent nearly all of last season in the minors despite being paid $1.75 million by the Red Sox and now the veteran reliever will try to make it back to the majors with the Yankees.

David Waldstein of the New York Times reports that Okajima has agreed to a minor-league contract with the Yankees that includes an invitation to spring training.

At age 36 the odds are against Okajima reestablishing himself as a quality setup man, but he pitched very well at Triple-A with a 2.29 ERA and 48/9 K/BB ratio in 51 innings and if nothing else could be useful as a situational left-hander.

Okajima provided an excellent return on the Red Sox’s investment after signing out of Japan in 2006, throwing 246 innings with a 3.11 ERA while being paid around $8.5 million.

 

[NV]

Story for the Yankees the last two years. Maybe we'll get lucky again and he'll end up a nice addition.

 

[NCSportsfan21]

If he has a Bartolo-turned around I'd be pissed.

He sucked so hard these past couple years.