Even Japanese players hate the Rangers!

According to numerous sources, four teams have made ML offers to 22-year-old Japanese pitcher, Junichi Tazawa (video here). The reported offers are as follows:

• Boston: 3 years, $3 million
• Seattle: 3 years, $3 million
• Atlanta: 4 years, $4-5 million
• Texas: 4 years, $7 million

Again, according to numerous sources, Tazawa will sign with Boston by the end of the week. This isn't CC or Sheets...this is a 22-year-old living in Japan, and even HE won't consider signing with Texas, despite being offered almost twice as much money!

Jon Daniels trying to sign a marquee free-agent pitcher is probably like watching a infomercial on the "ab-tronic" at three in the morning, thinking to yourself, "Man, that's what I need. The only thing standing between me and a six-pack is $24.95..."...only to realize that you can't buy it because you spent the last of your paycheck on Oreos and Fallout 3 for XBox (If the ab-tronic is a free-agent, and users are the General Managers, this guy must be Theo Epstein: doing what it takes to get the job done).

Another day in the life of a Ranger fan.