The Yakult Swallows accepted a bid Wednesday to sell the rights to left-hander Kazuhisa Ishii to a major league team in the United States.
The amount of the offer was between $11 million and $12 million, a baseball official with knowledge of the bidding said on the condition he not be identified. The Los Angeles Dodgers bid about $11.5 million, according to another baseball official, also on the condition of anonymity.
Swallows spokesman Toshiyuki Sudo, without disclosing the amount of the bid, said he notified the Japanese commissioner's office that it had been accepted.