It's worth noting, as we kick off the season that the Giants have a 39 year old Japanese born pitcher on the active roster named Keiichi Yabu. Yabu was the first pick by the Hanshin Tigers of the 1995 Nippon Baseball League draft, and in American service he has thrown 58 innings with a 4.50 ERA, which begs the question as to why he's on the active roster, or was even invited to camp.
Yabu threw 15.1 innings in spring training, with a low four ERA, which deserves a big club invite, except when you consider that those 15.1 innings came at the cost of guys like Osiris Matos, who threw a total 3.2 innings in the Cactus League (half of which came in mop-up duty during the 23-5 massacre), but who, last year in AA, went 5-0, with a 2.89 ERA and a 2-1 K:BB ratio. Plus, born in 1984, he was not alive for the 60's, as Yabu was. Similarly, Alexander Hinshaw, who posted a 1.96 ERA with 50 Ks in 41 innings, at AA Connecticut last season, threw a total of only 2.1 innings this Spring.
Neither of the pair are ready for the Major League level, as Yabu appears to be, but 6 innings between the pair of them?
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