Comments on: Red Sox Make Offer to Japanese Righty Tazawa http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/11/25/red-sox-make-offer-to-japanese-righty-tazawa/ A blog for sports agents: Discussing sports business news, Sports Law, and other interesting sports related material Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:32:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News» Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams » Follow Up: BoSox Sign Tazawa http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/11/25/red-sox-make-offer-to-japanese-righty-tazawa/comment-page-1/#comment-106184 SportsAgentBlog.com | Sports Agent News» Contract Negotiation MLB Players MLB Teams » Follow Up: BoSox Sign Tazawa Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:00:57 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=3049#comment-106184 [...] This post is a follow up to: Red Sox Make Offer to Japanese Righty Tazawa [...] [...] This post is a follow up to: Red Sox Make Offer to Japanese Righty Tazawa [...]

]]> By: Zach Miller http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2008/11/25/red-sox-make-offer-to-japanese-righty-tazawa/comment-page-1/#comment-104669 Zach Miller Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:04:23 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=3049#comment-104669 This situation gets very tricky, actually. In negotiating with Tazawa, the Red Sox have officially broken an informal agreement between Major Leagues and Japanese Leagues not to try and steer away each other's amateur talent. By doing so, the Red Sox have opened what could be a flood gate of Japanese teams with lots of money to come over here and sign guys directly out of high school for 5-6 years. Sure, most American teens dream to play in the MLB, but whose to say that throwing a boatload of money at a kid and having him mature in the Japanese Leagues when he should be in a Major League organization, wont sound enticing? As Peter Abraham said, "this is going to be a mess for the MLB which can't force the Red Sox to adhere to a rule that doesn't officially exist." And it could take years before we actually see the effect of this. But needless to say, the Red Sox have once again proved that they are the new evil empire. I hope the Seibu Lions pilfer their future HS draft picks... This situation gets very tricky, actually. In negotiating with Tazawa, the Red Sox have officially broken an informal agreement between Major Leagues and Japanese Leagues not to try and steer away each other’s amateur talent. By doing so, the Red Sox have opened what could be a flood gate of Japanese teams with lots of money to come over here and sign guys directly out of high school for 5-6 years. Sure, most American teens dream to play in the MLB, but whose to say that throwing a boatload of money at a kid and having him mature in the Japanese Leagues when he should be in a Major League organization, wont sound enticing?

As Peter Abraham said, “this is going to be a mess for the MLB which can’t force the Red Sox to adhere to a rule that doesn’t officially exist.” And it could take years before we actually see the effect of this. But needless to say, the Red Sox have once again proved that they are the new evil empire.

I hope the Seibu Lions pilfer their future HS draft picks…

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