Where will Chihiro Kaneko and Takashi Toritani be playing next season?
As the moving and shaking of the NPB offseason — or the Hot Hibachi League, as Japan Times columnist and HHL commissioner Wayne Graczyk likes to refer to it — begins to wind down, the two biggest pieces on the chessboard have yet to make their move.
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