There has been news over the weekend in Major League Baseball, one of which is that Roki Sasaki

has indeed been posted by the Chiba Latte Japanese squad.

And I have not focused a lot on Sasaki.

We haven't talked much about him.

And maybe that's my own error.

But the main reason why I haven't given him a lot of thought and we haven't talked that much about him on And maybe that's my own error, but the main reason why I haven't given

him a lot of thought and we haven't talked that much about him on the RICO is I don't think he's

going to be a met. Now, I've realized that I'm just basing that on history. I'm just basing that

Sasaki, unlike Yamamoto, unlike other guys who become true free agents, he's not going to make a decision based on money.

You know, we spent a lot of time last year talking about Yamamoto because the thought was maybe the Mets are just going to make the highest offer.

Maybe the Mets are going to make the highest offer by a lot.

And they'll just convince Yamamoto despite the Mets not being the Yankees or the Mets not being

the Dodgers or the Mets not having the right geography. They would just somehow convince him to come

to the New York Mets. When you have a situation like this, it's very similar to when Otani got

into free agency and he was posted years ago, the salary structure is very different.

You could only use your international bonus pool money.

And there are a lot of little factors that we're going to find out over the next few weeks,

such as when is he officially posted?

Is this going to be a part of the more recent international bonus pool signing?

Or is it the brand new year,

which could cause teams to kind of unethically, but they will do it anyway, walk away from

agreements that they have from young international free agents they were signing so that they

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