Nippon Professional Baseball will reopen talks with Major League Baseball over a new bidding system for Japan by no later than Tuesday after MLB pulled its proposal last week.

Representatives from the 12 teams in Japan met on Monday, when they were told by NPB negotiators that they will strive to maintain a system somewhat resembling the existing one.

"We will negotiate to try to keep what we have," NPB's general secretary Atsushi Ihara said. "We have to go over a timetable with them."