No amount of strikeouts or sick Twitter burns will ever be enough for some baseball fans to absolve Yu Darvish of the perceived sins of mental weakness and failure to perform in the clutch. For far too many, his legacy has already been etched in stone. That includes Darvish himself to an extent, as he recently admitted he’s chosen to hold onto ignominy even after the very public revelations of sign-stealing by the same Astros team that tagged the righty in the 2017 World Series.
In a YouTube video Darvish posted, and that was subsequently translated by Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times, the pitcher refused to use the Astros’ cheating as an excuse.