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HOW MUCH?: Someone at the minor-league camp decided to play Let's Have Fun With the Old Guy. One of the kids told 40-year-old Keiichi Yabu that young Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish signed a $100 million contract with the Mariners, and Yabu believed it, sort of.... (link)

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HOW MUCH?: Someone at the minor-league camp decided to play Let's Have Fun With the Old Guy. One of the kids told 40-year-old Keiichi Yabu that young Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish signed a $100 million contract with the Mariners, and Yabu believed it, ...