Thursday, June 6, 2024

Yu Darvish

Yu Darvish got his 200th career win in NPB & MLB while I was in Japan and I wanted to do a quick post to commemorate the event.  Darvish had 93 wins in his seven seasons in Japan and (obviously) 107 wins over thirteen seasons in the majors.  It's kind of hard to believe he's been playing for 20 years now or that he's been in the majors that long.

I did a post on him when he signed with the Rangers in early 2012 so I'm just going to show some cards from his time in Japan with the Fighters:

2005 BBM Rookie Edition #12

2005 BBM 1st Version #116

2006 Calbee #227

2007 Calbee #OP-01

2008 BBM Fighters #F02

2009 BBM Nippon Series #S30

2010 Georgia Coffee #019

2011 BBM All Stars #A04

4 comments:

Fuji said...

Very nice Darvish collection! I need to eventually track down some of his 2005 BBM cards.

Sean said...

Yeah, I have trouble grasping that he is now a 20 year veteran too, or that its been 12 years since he went to the US!

Zippy Zappy said...

I respect and like Darvish but I also hate him for getting in Chunichi's way in 2006.

NPB Card Guy said...

@Zippy Zappy - you and me both