Rarely does a foreign player get a second chance at Japanese baseball. If a gaikokujin does not do well and is let go by a Central or Pacific League team, it is not likely he will be picked up by another club in Japan.

I am not talking about guys such as George Arias, Tuffy Rhodes, Trey Moore or Jose Fernandez who put up good numbers but changed teams, for whatever reason, from one year to the next.

I am referring to those who flat out failed and, after one season or less, were sent packing. Few of those get invited back two or three years later; the theory being that, if they have not adjusted to Japanese baseball in a year, they never will.