Kazuki Sugiyama‘s temper tantrum on Saturday broke not only his own hand, but forced the SoftBank Hawks’ hand in their stalemated negotiations with the guy Sugiyama replaced as closer last season, the forever-troubled Roberto Osuna.

Sugiyama broke his left hand when punching the bench in frustration at the Fighters’ ballpark in an eerie SoftBank flashback. In 2004, left-handed starter Toshiya Sugiuchi flew into a rage and sparred with the plastic bench at Fukuoka Dome.

The cost of his getting that out of his system was that the Hawks front office reopened negotiations with Osuna, who is reportedly on a contract that specifies he be used as a closer. After Osuna had more difficulty with batters this spring than he did with his girlfriend in 2018, when he was arrested for domestic assault, he declined to break camp with the major league club in the role the Hawks offered.