Negotiations for FA players such as Masahiro Tanaka begin at the end of the World Series October 28, 17:24
The World Series will end on the 27th of the Major League Baseball, and negotiations between FA = free agent players, including pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, and the team to which they belonged will begin in earnest.
In Major League Baseball, players who have played in Major League Baseball for more than 6 years and whose contract expires will automatically become FA the day after the World Series ends, and this is the final year of the 7-year contract with the Yankees. Pitcher Tanaka also became a FA.
For FA players, the team they belonged to can offer a one-year contract with a fixed annual salary, called a "qualifying offer", for five days from the day after the end of the World Series.
The annual salary is determined to be the average of the top 125 players in the major league baseball annual salary of the year, which is $ 18.9 million, which is $ 1.1 million higher than last year, and about 2 billion yen in Japanese yen.
Players who receive this offer must decide within 10 days whether or not to sign the contract, and if they refuse, they can immediately move on to negotiations with other teams, and after refusing, the original team they belong to. It is also possible to negotiate a multi-year contract with.
After the end of this season, pitcher Tanaka said, "Of course I have an attachment to the Yankees. I want to think hard and make a choice that I will not regret." Negotiations with the Yankees will be the focus of attention.