As laid out by Drellich, NPB players have two different forms of free agency. A player can achieve domestic free agency after seven or eight years in the league, depending on whether the player ...

That's because of how the posting fees, or the international team's cut of the contract, are calculated: NPB players coming to MLB are subject to those international-spending limits noted above ...

Now that they’ve been posted, all 30 MLB teams can pursue them. Both must find a deal by Jan. 11 or their rights will revert back to their respective NPB teams. The Kyodo News reported Imanaga ...

On Monday, working in conjunction with Nippon Professional Baseball, Major League Baseball announced major changes to the way clubs will make posting arrangements for incoming Japanese players.

It’s not uncommon for NPB teams to make a player available to MLB clubs the winter before their free agent year via the posting system. That’d entitle the NPB club to compensation, as a ...

Yet, at a time when MLB is aggressively trying to leverage Ohtani’s rise for its own gain in Japan — and making no secret of those ambitions — the 12-team NPB is not moving with nearly the ...