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  1. 1908
    Maybe not everyone involved is convinced letting go of the biggest star and talent remaining in Japanese baseball two years before you have to is a good idea. Yeah, but aren't the Lions in some financial trouble? Kind of hard to turn down $20+ million dollars. I don't think they'll turn it down. Just suggesting a possible reason why they don't seem to be rushing to accept the offer right away.
  2. 1908
    Why? They have four business days to decide now that they know the offer.
  3. 1908
    Maybe not everyone involved is convinced letting go of the biggest star and talent remaining in Japanese baseball two years before you have to is a good idea.
  4. 1908
    Seibu won't know the former unless they accept the bid, and they're just choosing to keep silent on the latter.
  5. 1908
    Does that include Boras? Boras won't know until Seibu accepts the bid.
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  7. 1908
    This board has turned into a Japanese player love fest. I don't know how much more I can take.
  8. 1908
    Because he's a lefty and Japanese? Ishii's control issues in Japan (4.43 BB/9) were amplified in MLB. Igawa's got much better control (2.86 BB/9).
  9. 1908
    A player earns free agency after 9 years in NPB, but the player has to be on the active roster for at least so many days each season. If a player falls short by X number of days for one year, those days need to be made up in another year, but extra days for a given year don't count toward those makeup days. So it's a minimum of 9 years before free agency, with many players averaging 10 to 11 years. Making things even more frustrating, players' service time isn't made readily available to the public -- I don't know what the days threshold is for free agency even -- so it's almost impossible to predict who will be and who won't be a free agent until the list is officially announced by NPB. Getting back to Matsuzaka, it's entirely possible he won't be a free agent until after the 2008 season, even though the 2007 season would be his ninth season in Japan.
  10. 1908
    He's played 15 games total in the outfield. I doubt he's an everyday solution in CF. Fukudome or bust, Vance.
  11. 1908
    I think all foreign nationals that haven't played MLB ball signed by MLB teams are treated as free agents. It's never happened before, and this thread is the first place I've ever seen it discussed. But the posting process is an odd wrinkle, so I'm not sure. Irabu's situation was different, then? Yeah, no posting system. The powers that be let Lotte trade with the Padres, but the deal couldn't be finalized because Irabu refushed to play in San Diego.
  12. 1908
    I don't think this is possible under posting rules. The winning bidders needs to sign the player. Once the players signed, he can be traded, but that probably needs to wait until after May of the following season to happen, like other free agent signings. According to today's USA Today, back in 1997, the Padres reached an agreement with the Chiba Lotte Marines, and then traded the rights to Hideki Irabu to the Yankees. That was before the posting process, and a major contributor to its set-up. I know the commisoner's office got involved in that one. It was a tangled mess of lawyers.
  13. 1908
    I think all foreign nationals that haven't played MLB ball signed by MLB teams are treated as free agents. It's never happened before, and this thread is the first place I've ever seen it discussed. But the posting process is an odd wrinkle, so I'm not sure.
  14. 1908
    I don't think this is possible under posting rules. The winning bidders needs to sign the player. Once the players signed, he can be traded, but that probably needs to wait until after May of the following season to happen, like other free agent signings.
  15. 1908
    Gordon played point most of the time Thabo was on the floor. Thabo had a number of great passes during the game, though.
  16. 1908
    First half foul trouble, and then Thabo played great in the first half, so Skiles wanted him out there again in the second.
  17. 1908
    There are other Japanese pitchers out there for the Cubs to pursue beyond those two. If Igawa ends up being posted, yes. If not, who did you have in mind this offseason?
  18. 1908
    He's not pitching in this year's MLB-NPB series. Japan roster.
  19. 1908
    The player is free to refuse to sign with the winning bidder, and I'm almost positive the player has to agree to be posted for the process to start in the first place. So the player has a lot more control over this than a typical trade transaction.
  20. 1908
    I don't know. With an open auction, you wouldn't have the high bid be $30M and the next highest be $10M as abuck described.
  21. 1908
    Free agency is set up to favor the player, help them earn as much money as possible on the open market. The posting system is set up to favor the NPB team, help them earn as much money as possible for the player's rights. That's the difference.
  22. 1908
    Why is that unfair? Bid what you can afford and think he's worth. Don't bid if you don't like the system. The system's designed to maximize the payout to the Japanese team, and I don't blame them for setting it up in their favor.
  23. 1908
    You're online; what's the first link when you search for PER and basketball on Google? I'd take Williams over Duhon without a second though. But Head and Brown are in Duhon's class -- fringe NBA starters at best.
  24. 1908
    yep, it's sorta like the Illini team with Head, Williams and Brown. They can shoot 3's all night and midrange jumpers, but have no one to score inside consistently. if one or more of your outside guys get in foul trouble, suddenly the scoring options dry up Except Duhon isn't as good as any of those three guys. Last year he was. Duhon 12.95 PER Head 11.24 PER Williams 12.42 PER Hinrich 15.56 PER
  25. 1908
    Yeah, I wasn't expecting the Bulls to start 2-0. I'll be pleased if they finish November at .500 given their schedule.
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