All major league teams can begin making their pitches to Japanese right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano after he was posted by his Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Central League's Yomiuri Giants, Major League Baseball said Monday.
MLB.com said the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox are among the many suitors for the 31-year-old Sugano, saying his "NPB credentials are comparable to those of Kenta Maeda and Masahiro Tanaka."
"I've got the right to negotiate, so I'll listen to some pitches, and I think I'll get several impressions from that," Sugano said during an interview at Giants Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.