17.11.2017 Otani can take a maximum of $ 3, 5 million in MLB

Japanese baseball shooter Shohey Otani announced he was ready for the MLB challenge. The 23-year-old pitcher and outsider of Hokkaido Nippon-Hem Fighters will be on the international market this winter, he said at a press conference in his home country on Saturday. `On that day, I met the club leadership and shared my desire and intent, my request was welcomed with warm words of support, so I hope to show my best in America in the coming year`Shahay said. Since there are less than 9 seasons in the Japanese Professional League (NPB), Otani has to go through the so-called `bidding process`. She orders Hokkaido to set a price of no more than $ 20 million, and every Major League club who deposits it on the account of the `fighters` will have 30 days to negotiate the player`s personal conditions. However, according to the MLB`s new collective agreement, the maximum amount of a baseball player born outside the United States and Canada can be paid as a bonus when signing a first contract is $ 3 535 000. If the club does not exceed the permissiblea budget of $ 5, 75 million for foreign players within a transfer window. Only the Texas Rangers, who can only pay the $ 3, 5 million top-of-the-money bonus to Otani, will be responsible for this condition. The following clubs with the most free resources are New York Yankees ($ 3, 25 million) and Minnesota Twins ($ 3, 24 million). Only three teams can provide the Japanese with a seven-figure `welcome` amount;Pittsburgh Pirates ($ 2, 27 million), Miami Marlins ($ 1, 74 million) and Seattle Mariners ($ 1, 57 million). Philadelphia Phillies ($ 900, 000), Milwaukee Brews ($ 765, 500), Arizona Diamondbacks ($ 731, 250), Baltimore Orioles ($ 660, 000), Boston Red Sox ($ 462, 000), and Tampa Bay Rees ($ 440, 500). Also, Ottai has the right to sign a Mainleague contract at first. If he is included in the Major League, his annual salary will be close to a minimum of $ 545, 000, and he will not have the right to wage arbitrage by 2020. If he waited for the age of 25, there would be no such restrictionshe would almost certainly have received a multi-million dollar deal. But his intentions are different. I`m not yet a completed player and I want to get into an environment where I could continue to develop, I felt like this when I graduated from high school, which is the main reason I want the change now, `he explained. Shohay. Although he was haunted by injuries in the thigh and ankle of the right foot, he was chosen as the most useful player (MVP) in the Pacific League of NPB in 2016. Otani had a balance of 3-2 with 3, 20 ERA as a pitcher andbate. 332 with 8 home runs, 16 double hits and 31 RBIs in 65 games as an outsider and DH for Nippon-Hem this year. For five seasons with the Fifty uniform, he has a total balance of 42-15 with 2, 52 ERA and 624 strikes in the 543 inning of the hill, as well as a coefficient. 286 with 48 home runs and 166 RBIs in attack. `Before I became a professional, I did not imagine I could do both, ` said Shahai Otani, `but then the fans encouraged me, the coaches helped me, and the Hideki Kuriamaa manager made it possible. made me want to be stronger to continue to throw and bathy I do not know whether it is possible to do so in the US but I want to hear