Carter Stewart Ops for Japan

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, Roll Tide said:

Is it likely he could be posted sooner?

If I'm him I'd rather be a free agent than get posted and be under team control for 6 years.

I don't know if the player gets a say in if they get posted or not.

[DrungoHazewood]

On 5/22/2019 at 9:48 AM, Greg Pappas said:

This could have a domino effect and find others taking this route.  I wouldn't be surprised to see MLB attempt to find a way to make it less likely moving forward. How? No idea, but this Stewart situation could be setting a dangerous precedent for MLB. 

How is this dangerous?  Because after a few years 20 or 30 kids might go to Japan per season, and MLB only gets control of 99.5% of the talent instead of 99.9%?  I find it hard to believe large numbers of kids from California or Iowa are going to sign up to play for six years in a completely different culture in Japan for slightly more up-front money and the potential for earlier free agency.

Although that would make me happy, since better baseball in other places helps the sport out.  Us taking Ichiro and others, and giving them Felix Pie in return isn't a positive for Japanese baseball.  

[makoman]

5 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

How is this dangerous?  Because after a few years 20 or 30 kids might go to Japan per season, and MLB only gets control of 99.5% of the talent instead of 99.9%?  I find it hard to believe large numbers of kids from California or Iowa are going to sign up to play for six years in a completely different culture in Japan for slightly more up-front money and the potential for earlier free agency.

Although that would make me happy, since better baseball in other places helps the sport out.  Us taking Ichiro and others, and giving them Felix Pie in return isn't a positive for Japanese baseball.  

Plus, IIRC each team is only allowed to have 4 foreign players. There's only 12 teams in the NPB, so that's a pretty low limit unless they change that. Also, are teams really going to be clamoring for unknown American 17 year olds when older foreign players like Dennis Sarfate and Tuffy Rhodes take those spots and become perennial MVP candidates?

[VaBird1]

On 6/4/2019 at 11:55 AM, makoman said:

Plus, IIRC each team is only allowed to have 4 foreign players. There's only 12 teams in the NPB, so that's a pretty low limit unless they change that. Also, are teams really going to be clamoring for unknown American 17 year olds when older foreign players like Dennis Sarfate and Tuffy Rhodes take those spots and become perennial MVP candidates?

This sounds like the league for Chris Davis!