As first brought to my attention by Yahoo’s Jeff Passan via Bleacher Nation’s Brett Taylor, it appears the Nippon-Ham Fighters will be posting living legend Shohei Otani following the 2017 season. This according to a report from Sponichi (Sports Nippon, Japan’s first daily sports newspaper) that was published on Yahoo! Japan Sunday evening.
For more on the story we turn to our intrepid international reporter, Google Translate, who has the details. You’ll have to bear with me here because this is a case in which the term “lost in translation” is seriously underselling the digital conversion of the text in question.