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Buzz: Indians Close to Signing Kobayashi

by Brandon Eddy on November 20th, 2007 at 2:02 pm

According to a report on FOXSports.com, ‘citing major-league sources,’ the Indians are close to an agreement with free-agent RHP Masahide Kobayashi.

Kobayashi is in Cleveland today to take a physical.

He has averaged 31 saves the past seven seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines, the team managed by Bobby Valentine.

 …looks like the indians took a page from the Red Sox (see Hideki Okajima) …kobayashi should be a nice compliment to bullpen workhorses Joe Borowski and Rafael Betancourt

by the way, wasn’t there a guy named kobayashi who was looking for keyser soze…