Well, ten years from now he'll be part of a trivia question about how many Japanese players toiled for the Mets. I'm betting he'll be the last one named, and everybody will say, "Ohhhh yeah, I forgot he played for them". This is the guy you're going to forget. The rest are all more memorable: Ishii, Nomo, Komiyama, the two Takahashis, Shinjo, Matsui, Yoshii, and Igarashi.