[Short-term serialization]Why is the Japanese FA system not utilized?
The 3rd “Thinking from the difference in FA system and culture between Japan and the United States”
Seiya Suzuki of Hiroshima is paying attention to his departure as he heads for professional baseball from the off-season stove league to voluntary training and camp in February. MLB is aiming to transfer to the major leagues with the posting system, but MLB has entered the lockout through labor-management negotiations between the players’ association side and the owner side. Negotiations resumed at the beginning of the year, but the future is uncertain.
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Seiya Suzuki from Hiroshima aiming to transfer to Major League Baseball
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While no negotiations can be made with Major League Baseball until the lockout is over, many of the news about Suzuki coming from across the sea are positive. It is said that the prestigious New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and Toronto Blue Jays with large reinforcements before lockout, Boston Red Sox and Seattle Mariners familiar to Japanese people are interested.
What surprises me is the amount. It is said that the total amount for five years will increase from 55 million dollars (about 6.05 billion yen) to 64 million dollars (about 7.04 billion yen) for four years.
In 2021 during the Hiroshima era, Suzuki’s annual salary was 310 million yen (estimated amount / NPB annual salary is the same below). Last year, with a batting average of .317, he was the top hitter, OPS1.072 at the top of the Central League, 38 home runs in Thailand in 3rd place, 88 RBIs in 4th place, and made a big success in the best nine for 6 consecutive years and 5 times in the Golden Glove Award. But why would it be so valuable to move to a major?
“It’s simply the basic principle of the economy, because there is a market for 30 baseball teams in Major League Baseball, and there is a mechanism to activate the transfer market in supply and demand.”
That’s what MLB official agent Yoshinobu Hasegawa, who is the director of the Pacific Rim baseball division at Octagon in the United States, said.
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