While I have to restrain myself from gouging my eyes out during some of his starts, the lack of talent to replace him makes me want to give it another try.  He could be a solid #4 or 5 in any rotation. 

Dice-K will end up pitching on the West Coast most likely, for a NL team. Probably the best place for him. 

I have never seen anyone put more people on base, load the bases and still manage to get out of if after throwing about a million pitches an inning. Honestly Dice-K has a knack unlike anyone else in history for making baseball longer and more boring. Good riddance. 

I will admit, at first I thought this was going to be a great signing, and the first two seasons were not awful but did not meet my expectations, then he disappeared into the Red Sox Injury black hole. 

HE AIN’T DONE YET!!!!!! SIGN HIM TO AN A-ROD TYPE DEAL!!!! BWAHHAAHAHHAAAA!!!!!

“The one thing I saw in Japan was that he had a really good split. In fact, I thought one of his best pitches was his split. I’m not sure that translated in America. hat had to do with the (larger) ball a lot, I would think. I noticed early on he would take a lot of time taking the shine off the ball, rubbing the ball. I think that was a big factor, not seeing the split he had, because I believe that was probably his best pitch.”

Are you kidding me?  This is the lead SCOUT for the Sox and he makes a comment like that?  He didn’t realize a larger ball would affect his split(or any other pitch for that matter).  Comical.

Deeble your signing recommendation wasn’t  crazy but going forward??  That’s just stubborn

Anyone in the Red Sox organisation who thinks bringing Matsuzaka back would be a good idea should be fired instantly. 

For the right price I’d give him a chance since he’s still coming back from TJ surgery.
But some NL club will probably offer a ridiculous contract After all, before shutting down, he didn’t look bad against NL teams.Remember fans…PITCHING, PITCHING,PITCHING!

LMAO!!!! GOOD ONE!!!! BWAHHHAAAAAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HI, MY NAME IS ROBBIE VALENTINE AND I THINK WE SHOULD DEFINITELY SIGN MATSUSUKA TO A LONG TERM DEAL. I SAY WE SHOULD SIGN HIM TO A 5-75 DEAL AT LEAST!!!! BWAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!

Dice K needs to be part of the house cleaning that will be necessary this off season in order for this team to move forward in a positive direction.

Seattle

Give it up pleeeeez!  Dicey K is a useless player that Sox fans hope they never see on the hill next year unless with another uniform and then maybe the Sox will win a game next season. However,the word around MLB is that nobody is interested in extra garbage.

Oh and I’m sure you get all the inside words around MLB. You must work for a MLB front office, what with your amazing use of sentences and calling people garbage. Although I’ll give you this , you have probably as many good sources as most of the writers covering this team for the past year or so…

send back to Japan with Bobby

A 100 million dollars later, the difference in ball size might have been an important fact to bring up before the Red Sox signed him and paidbthat rediculous amount ofbmoneybfor a 4th or 5th starter who cannot make it out ofbthe 5th inning.
Even his two seasons of “supposed success” in 2007 and 2008 were frustrating to watch him pitch in and out of trouble with high pitch counts and men on base. Complete bust.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out….arrivaderci …

He should join the Cubs.  After all, he’s a Wonderboy All Star, together with Clement, Renteria, Lugo, Lackey, A Gonzo, Camaron, etc.  That’s a line-up that could easily beat these current Sox, in the loss column that is.  Try 120 losses.

Thanks to god you don’t own the Sox.  I rather see Zach Steward get lit up than watch this Japanese National Treasure performing water torture!

Another one of Theo’s  hideous free agent signings.  Renteria, Lugo, Lackey, Drew, Crawford, Gonzalez,  Crisp, Gonyea.  Good luck Cubbies.

First, cut Matsuzaka before tonights game. Second, fire Deeble right now!

apparently you have to get japanese pitchers young, like with tazawa. that way they can get used to the bigger ball, and to the culture like any foreign player. i agree that his contract was the beginning of the end of theo’s philosophy, along with cameron and jenks and crawford and lackey. i don’t count drew’s deal because he performed for most of it and never really blocked anyone; it wasn’t a bad contract at all,  though it wasn’t a good one either. anyway, good riddance to dice K, i hope ben cherington learns the lesson.

Sayounara…….

FIRE Jon Deeble!

So glad that the Dice-K experiment is over! I always said that unless he was the Japanese equivalent to Pedro which is what he was built up to be that the experiment would fail and it did! Japan is the minor leagues of American major league baseball ,i have always said that…..

I don’t care if they sign Aaron Cook again I do not EVER want to see DiceK pitch in Fenway Park again. The guy is at best a Triple A pitcher.

And he has none of it, none of it, none of it.

Sayonara

Love the crankme fan!!! They think they are going to go far in the playoffs!!!  They will be in the same situation in the coming years with those bloated contracts BWAHHHAAHAHHAAAA!!!!!!

the reason why Dice-K is able to throw so many pitches is because in Japan they dont really have a pitch count.  those guys are use to throwing hundreds of pitches a week sometimes up to 200 pitches a day. and that could just be a bull-pen session. it takes a special pitcher to make the transition from Japan to America.  unfortunately Dice-K did not have it. 

I think Daisuke ate to much cream-of-sum-yung-guy.

One good year out 5…..almost always a painful painful experience watching MR GYRO pitch…he was not as advertised by the THEO group..but they got it wrong most of the time.  Sadly..next year looks to be no better at this point.

Wasn’t the ball.  He progressively seemed to get worse, even when taking injuries into account.  The baseball wasn’t a problem when he dominated the world baseball classic in 06(Asian countries received the diff baseballs only a month or 2 before hand) before joining the sox as well as the 2009 classic.  I understand he didn’t go deep into games and put a lot of runners on, but that was his style and he was effective for those first two years, as well as an important part of the sox success(so he wasn’t a total bust).  If he initially had success with a ball he was unfamiliar with(relatively) you would naturally expect him to have even more success the longer he used the ball.  I think with hitters becoming familiar, overuse of his arm(pitching a lot of innings in Japan as well as his strenuous pitching routine on off days), and attempting to change his style, all lead to his career going down hill.  When they tried to change his style, even if he went back to his old ways years later, his confidence had already taken a big hit, and injuries obviously didn’t help.  I figured after tommy john he was going to return to the pitcher he was the 1st two years, especially with the assumption that he would be highly motivated to regain the respect and admiration the people of Japan once gave him.  I thought(and maybe he was) he would want to remind MLB and Japan that Yu Darvish wasn’t the only great Japanese pitcher, but maybe he needed that extra year after TJ that most pitchers do.  Thats one of the few reasons why I wouldn’t want to see him leave Boston, because I get the feeling that he will succeed after his 2nd season of TJ.  Look at Tazawa.  Who knows maybe Boston can get him for REAL cheap, as he may want to prove to the sox fans that he can pitch(diff cultural mindset).  

Nice in depth explanation, but 6 years and $100+ million dollars later I think is enough proof that this did not work out. Time to move on. I’d rather see them spend money like that with proven ability who has an addiction problem. Dice K was the single biggest blunder yet of this ownership group, hands down. $100 mil. could have gotten some really decent players

no one ever mentions the fav that the sox made the posting fee back through merch/tv deals in japan

Crawl back in Your hole moron!

You are right on, brother!!!

That’s the problem with our scouts. This guy wants dice k back!! Now wonder the pitching staff sucks!! Fire all of our scouts and start over. 

No they didn’t shut up. 

The only ownership in the world that spends over 100 million on a Japanese guy with zero big league experience.  Knowing this ownerships, they did it to improve their image in Japan

cumstein you are a clown, fire deeble, you seem to forget he was responsable for okajima tazawa atchison, 2 of our best pitchers this year, he should be made GM