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Anonymous
>ESPN reports today that the 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams agreed on a conditional ban for amateur players to sign overseas. The agreement was sparked by Junichi Tazawa, the 22 year-old pitcher who hopes to sign with an MLB club. It's a two or three-year ban from playing in Japan, depending on the circumstances.

That really won't mean anything to Japanese players. So they sign with a US team then come back to Japan, they have to wait 2-3 years to play in the NPB? What a joke.
>> Anonymous
Within five years of passing this ban, it will be overturned. Sooner or later, some good Japanese player will go to the USA, then come home and want to play. A big club will want to sign him, and that will be it for the ban.
>> Anonymous
So a Japanese player who doesn't want to play in Japan is not allowed to play in Japan while he is playing in the MLB where he wants to play. Got it. This sounds like an employee quitting right before he is about to get fired, or a guy at a bar calling a girl fat if she doesn't want to dance with him.
>> Anonymous
A trade embargo?
>> Anonymous
Its a law that basically says that Japanese amateur players that fail at american baseball won't have Japanese baseball to fall back on. Japanese players better learn how to speak Korean, or Spanish then.
>> Anonymous
>>390846
He but there's ALWAYS a team willing to pick up someone young to at least have in the minor leagues if they show some promise.