Pitcher Randy Messenger is interested in working out a deal to remain with the Hanshin Tigers in 2017, his agent Matt Sosnick told The Japan Times on Wednesday.
Reports saying the team was planning to offer Messenger an extension for next year surfaced on Tuesday. Sosnick said that while actually seeing this being reported in the media was a surprise, the two sides have been in contact over the issue for some time.
"We'd talked about it in theory, but there were never any numbers exchanged," Sosnick said over the phone. "I was less surprised about it conceptually than I was about actually seeing it in print."