Yanks Scouting Darvish

According NPB Tracker, the Yankees had several scouts watching Yu Darvish earlier this week. The scouts witnessed Darvish hurl his shortest outing of the year: 7 innings. He shut down Orix in Nippon Ham's 10-1 win. 

Dispite Darvish not carrying his best stuff with him, he still threw 7 innings of 1 run, 4 hit ball. His fastball topped out at 91 MPH.

The Yankees sent Gene Michael to Japan last year in order to watch Darvish pitch. This story just proves further the Yank's interest in the Japanese righty. Although Yu won't be a free agent until 2014 due to Japan's rules and the fact that he's denied wanting to play in the MLB, many teams still have significant interest in acquiring him down the road.