He's coming over. Also, no team will have more than $3.5m to offer him as a signing bonus, so this really isn't about money. Um yeah. I'll believe it when I see it. It's always about money. Unless there is some loophole to be found, it will cost him hundreds of millions of dollars to come over 2 years earlier. It's not like KD or LeBron taking $5 million less. This dude would literally be paying $100 million for 2 years. I don't know this guy. But when you hear stuff like "its not about money", "you can live well on $3 million". I don't need to know this guy. I know people act in their own self interest. It's like predicting someone is going to walk off a cliff. You wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. Nobody would do it. Including this guy. There's no reason for the Nippon-Ham Fighters to come out and say they're going to post him per his request. Nobody gains any leverage by doing that so it wouldn't make sense to put it out there like that. What it does do is allow teams to plan their pitches for him Dave Cameron's piece on how it may go down is probably a good place to start. Personally, I wouldn't voluntarily give up that kind of money, but sometimes when you're the best of the best at something you want to put your wares up against the other rest of the best in the world. Plus, following the plan outlined in Cameron's article he's not sacrificing that generational wealth.