Major League Baseball Masahiro Tanaka can negotiate with all teams including Japan November 2, 11:14
The exclusive negotiation period between Masahiro Tanaka and the Yankees, whose seven-year contract with the Major League Baseball and the Yankees ended this season, has ended in one day, and negotiations with all teams including Japan are now possible.
In Major League Baseball, five days from the day after the end of the World Series is a period of exclusive negotiations with the team to which the player who became the FA = free agent belonged, and each team will "qualify" during this period. You can offer a one-year contract called an "offer".
The offer has a fixed annual salary, which is $ 18.9 million, or about 2 billion yen in Japanese yen, but the Yankees didn't offer it to pitcher Tanaka.
This will allow Tanaka to negotiate with all baseball teams, including the Yankees and Nippon Professional Baseball.
At the Yankees, six players, including pitcher Tanaka, became FA, but only DJ Lumeihue, the top batter of the season, was offered a qualifying offer.
While the Yankees are often viewed as having difficulty signing new major contracts off this season, the major leagues have been held unattended due to the impact of the new coronavirus and the profits of each team have fallen sharply. Tanaka, who has won 78 wins in 7 years, is ranked high among the FA players, and his future departure will be watched.