Yu Darvish Contract: Texas Rangers Will Regret Overpaying for Inevitable Bust

The Texas Rangers won the Yu Darvish sweepstakes and will now suffer because of it. 

The Japanese experiment continued on Wednesday. In a deal that could jump to $70 million if Darvish reaches incentives of the deal, according to Yahoo! Sports, Darvish and the Rangers consummated a six-year, $60 million deal just before Wednesday's 5 p.m. ET deadline.

Including the $51.7 million posting fee the Rangers paid for exclusive negotiating rights, the team will have paid over $111 million to once again try and place a square peg into a round hole. 

Another Japanese pitcher will produce nothing but mediocre returns in the big leagues, and most of it is not his fault. 

The Red Sox can tell you about whiffing on a sure thing Japanese import when they paid $103 million for Daisuke Matsuzaka, who was supposed to amaze with wily tricks of his trade. Instead, the Red Sox pitcher just finished a season in which he posted a 5.30 ERA and just three wins. 

More than that, he pitched in just eight games due to injury. 

Another Japanese workhorse comes to America with a similar regimen that Matsuzaka had on his way to Boston. 

The same accolades about a pitcher that throws on his days off and gets better the more he pitches were also bestowed on Matsuzaka. They just do it differently in Japan. Yet, MLB teams continue to impose their major league mentality on pitchers that have found success doing things their own way.

Back in 2009, the Boston Globe ran a story on how irate Matsuzaka became with how he was forced to take on the Red Sox work regimen over his own. 

What was seen as overworking his body during off-days had actually served Matsuzaka quite well. One Tommy John surgery later, we have to admit that Matsuzaka may have been onto something there. 

Darvish will come in with the same type of work ethic and the Rangers will likely tweak it to become more aligned with major league demands. 

Add the immense scrutiny and boos that will follow if he doesn't deliver ace performances, and you can see disaster is on the horizon with an otherwise amazing talent. 

Paying $100 million is ridiculous, especially when you consider the Rangers will more than likely break their new toy like the Red Sox did with Matsuzaka. 

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