LOS ANGELES — The most fascinating story of the MLB offseason will be the pursuit of Japanese star Shohei Otani, and the Dodgers will definitely be in the mix.
“It’s a situation we’re monitoring closely, but it’s premature to talk about right now, being that the formal process has not started,” Dodgers president of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman said on Tuesday.
That formal process is close to getting finalized, with Major League Baseball and the NPB nearing an agreement on a posting system to bring Otani over to the United States, per Joel Sherman of the New York Post: The tentative agreement would grandfather in the old posting system for one more year, per Sherman:
Under the agreement, which expired Oct.