According to multiple Japanese reports, there is an increasingly large chance that Shohei Otani will be posted this coming offseason. The two-way superstar seems ready to bring his talents to the United States. If you don’t know who Otani is, he has been referred to by many as the “Japanese Babe Ruth”, and you can familiarize yourself by reading this piece by our own Tanya Bondurant from last year.
When it comes to offseason excitement, the general consensus has been that this year’s free agent class is relatively vanilla compared to the star-studded one that will follow the 2018 season.