Now that the New York Yankees have agreed to part with a whopping $175 million in order to fit Masahiro Tanaka for pinstripes, baseball fans and observers will spend the next several years trying to figure out if "Ma-kun" was worth the hefty price tag.

Because that can't be answered anytime soon, the focus for now will center around what exactly the Yankees are getting.

Names like Yu Darvish, Daisuke Matsuzaka and Kei Igawa will be bandied about ad naseum as measuring sticks early on, despite them collectively sharing little in common with Tanaka other than being Japanese pitchers who have been posted, until Tanaka begins to forge his own MLB identity.