Free agency - The Japan Times

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | HIT AND RUN Dec 19, 2016

Free-agent compensation choices usually risky bets

by Jason Coskrey

The Orix Buffaloes will hope taking right-handed pitcher Kazuyuki Kaneda from the Hanshin Tigers as compensation for the Tigers signing former Buffalos outfielder Yoshio Itoi in free agency ends up being a productive outcome for the loss of such a talented player, but history ...

Baseball / Japanese Baseball Apr 18, 2016

Baseball players' union seeks free-agency preview

Japan's players union requested on Monday that players be allowed to gauge market interest in their services before they file for free agency. According to Tadahito Mori, the secretary general of the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association, teams that refuse to negotiate with their own ...