It should not be a surprise to anyone that Mark McGwire is not going to play for the Chunichi Dragons next season.
Mitsuo Kodama, an executive with the Japan Central League club, tried to interest the erstwhile St. Louis Cardinals slugger in playing first base for Nagoya in 2002 and, while you have to admire Kodama's ambitiousness in trying to land a big name, big league superstar, getting Big Mac was a longshot longer than several of his tape-measure homers.
Recall McGwire declined an invitation to visit Japan on the MLB post-season all-star tour in 1998, the year he hit 70 homers to establish a then major league record.