NPB players are often made available to MLB clubs before those nine years are up via the posting system. Under that system, the player’s NPB club posts them for MLB teams, opening a 45-day ...

Major League Baseball is reportedly close to agreeing on a new posting system with Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. Reports indicate the posting fee would be capped at $20 million.

11:59pm: Negotiations continue on how things will play out when multiple teams submit the maximum $20MM posting fee, Sanspo reports.However, it's possible that the bidding for Tanaka could take ...

A new wave of NPB players have chosen to pursue their big-league dreams in recent years. Just this past offseason, Kodai Senga signed a five-year, $75MM deal with the Mets, Masataka Yoshida signed ...

Under Major League Baseball's latest announcement, though, the blind bidding process will be eliminated altogether. Instead, the NPB team will set a flat price up to a maximum of $20 million, and ...

The 35-year-old Sugano pitched 12 seasons for the Yomiuri Giants in the NPB, where he posted a career 136-74 record with a 2.43 ERA in 1,857 innings pitched while striking out 1,585 batters.

The NPB players’ union, the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association, is attempting to lower that wait time, but the union is not as strong as its U.S. counterpart, the Major League ...

And the best players bring NPB teams hefty payments. The Los Angeles Dodgers, for example, paid the Orix Buffaloes $50.6 million to sign Yoshinobu Yamamoto last offseason, ...