The Tokyo Swallows reported that they have signed 26-year-old Tony Barnette, formerly of the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, to a one year deal worth four hundred thousand dollars plus incentives (just shy of forty million yen). Barnette, a right-handed pitcher who will be wearing number 64, spent all of 2009 with Arizona’s triple-A outfit, the Reno [...]
As I write this the Swallows are languishing in 5th place in the Central League, and are generally having a torrid time in the Inter League games this year (though things have been looking up a little during the last few days). So let’s have a look at the cast of starting pitchers who have [...]
