As MLB, the Players Association and the NBP have all agreed on a new posting system, the biggest star in Japanese baseball, Shohei Ohtani, is set to come over to the states. As we’ve mentioned before, the new international signing rules limit his earning power and teams can only spend whatever they have left in their signing pool to sign the star two-way player. For the Red Sox, that means they can only offer less than one million dollars. No team will be able to offer Ohtani nearly what he’s worth, but the Red Sox are in a worse position than most.
MLB Roundup 11/27: Shohei Ohtani wants to hear what you can do for him
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