The winning bid for Korean left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu was $25,737,737.33, reports Jon Heyman of CBSSports.com (on Twitter). It’s a record amount for a South Korean player and it’s unclear which team submitted the bid. The Hanwha Tigers have accepted the bid and now the winning club now has 30 days to sign the southpaw.
Ryu, 25, was posted earlier this month. He’s been one of the Korean Baseball Organization’s most dominant pitchers over the last five years or so, helping the country to Olympic gold in 2008 and a second place finish in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. ESPN’s Keith Law ranked the lefty 37th on his Top 50 Free Agents list and said Ryu could wind up in the bullpen given concerns about his durability and thick body.
We’ll keep you posted when the winning team is revealed.
Didn’t Theo do something weird with the numbers like that when he won the bid for dice-k?
Jon Heyman is reporting the Cubs did NOT win the bid.
But Dave Kaplan says they did . . .
I’m reporting that Jon Heyman and Dave Kaplan are boobs.
They are not boobs.
Boobs are nice and fun to play with.
I’m killing time by watching THE NUMBER ONE COLLEGE BASKETBALL TEAM IN THE COUNTRY, BABY!!!
I think that they either did get him, or they didn’t.
Not the Cubs. Looking like the Dodgers or Rangers.
L.A. Times says it’s the Dodgers….
I hate the mother fucking Dodgers
Can’t stand em.
I read that the Cubs bid pretty aggressively.
Appears that I have been put on language probation here by the hire ups. So I will only be reporting sports for the foreseeable future. My apologies if I offended anyone. Go Cubbies!
I noticed nothing
Fuck apologies…offend more!
I think it was the $.33 that did us in.
I’m pretty sure the Cubs bid more than that…considering the money that went off the payroll this year, I’m assuming that Cubs put in a bid of at least $1.50…but probably no more that $1.75.
“thick body”
This forced me to google the lad.