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Yu Darvish

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Baseball Player

The Resume

    (August 16, 1986- )
    Born in Habikino, Japan
    Birth name is Sefat Farid Yu Darvish
    Pitcher for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (2005–2011) and the Texas Rangers
    Pacific League Most Valuable Player (2007, 2009)
    Asia Series MVP (2006)
    Climax Series MVP (2007)

Why he might be annoying:

    He is divorced from Japanese actress Saeko, whom he married in a shotgun wedding five years earlier.
    His divorce was a key factor in his delay to getting his United States visa.
    He appears in advertisements for various brands of clothing and electronic products.
    He was suspended by his high school and by Nippon after he was caught smoking in a pachinko parlor as a minor (2005).
    He spurned a chance to play for Japan at the 2013 World Baseball Classic, citing he had nothing left to prove at the international level.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was born to a Japanese mother and an Iranian father, who met in the United States while both were attending college.
    He was considered a pitching prodigy in his high school years.
    He was an integral part of the Ham Fighters dominance in the later part of the 2000's.
    He was a member of the Japanese national team that won the second World Baseball Classic championship (2009).
    He earned the American League Rookie of the Month honors for his dominating major league debut (April, 2012).
    He became the first player in 11 years to record more than 200 strikeouts before Memorial Day (2013).

Credit: Ricky


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 11 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 286 Votes: 74.48% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying