Regarding personal compensation for transfers that exercise the rights of free agents, Tadahito Mori, secretary general of the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association, said, ``The players' association has been appealing for the abolition of the protection list for a long time. "It would be better to make it visible not only to the team in question, but also to third parties," he said.
Regarding personal compensation due to the exercise of free agent rights, on the morning of January 11th, pitcher Tsuyoshi Wada's name was reported in some media reports as compensation for Hotaka Yamakawa, who transferred from Seibu to Softbank. However, in the evening of the same day, pitcher Kainoo's transfer to Seibu was announced.
Regarding this, Secretary General Mori of the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association said in an interview after the administrative negotiations held at the NPB (Japan Baseball Organization), ``The players' association has been appealing for the abolishment of personal compensation for some time. "I think it happened as it should have happened," he said.
Additionally, as personnel compensation for Yamakawa's transfer, Seibu was legally allowed to acquire one player from among the 28 players under its control, excluding foreign players, who were protected by Softbank. However, according to the players' association, currently the list of protected players can only be viewed by the relevant team.
Regarding this, Director-General Mori said, ``It would be better to make the list of protects visible not only to the team in question, but also to the NPB and third parties.If things remain as they are, we won't know whether there has been a violation or not. I think it would be better if there were penalties," he said, referring to improvement measures.
The players' association plans to interview the players concerned and players who have exercised their free agency rights during the February training camp.