Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Posting System
There are two Japanese major leagues, the Pacific League and the Central League. Together they are known as "Nippon Professional Baseball" (or "NPB").
A Japanese player who is not under contract to an NPB club can sign with any MLB club.
A player who is under contract to an NPB club may ask his club for permission to sign with an MLB club anytime during a four-month period extending from November 1st to March 1st. If the NPB club agrees to the request, the player is said to be "posted," and MLB clubs have four business days to decide whether to extend a transfer fee offer to the player's NPB club. The transfer fee offers are delivered to the MLB Commissioner in the form of sealed bids.
Once the auction has been closed, the MLB Commissioner notifies the NPB club whether any bids were received, and if so, the amount of the highest bid, but not the identity of the MLB club that submitted it. The NPB club then has four business days to decide whether to accept the bid. The MLB club that submits the highest bid is the only club that can sign the player, and that's only if the player's NPB club accepts the bid.
If no bids are received, or if bids are received but the NPB club rejects the highest one, the player remains with the NPB club and cannot be posted again until November 1st.
If the NPB club accepts the bid, the MLB club that submitted it is awarded exclusive negotiating rights with the player for 30 days. If the MLB club signs the posted player, the NPB club receives the transfer fee from the MLB club. If the MLB club does not sign the posted player within 30 days, the MLB club retains the transfer fee, and the player cannot be posted again until November 1st.
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scrubbies lose...18-28
as an aside...though jim d. hasn't been awful in the booth, it's a bit disappointing he didn't/doesn't do the amount of "homework" getting to know the team or critiquing things being done like bob did.
so far, when i hear jim d. calling a game it feels like he's a national "game of the week" generic type announcer that doesn't know the team well.
he's a full-on 100% replacement for "bad joke bob" type humor, though.
link is fine
MLB.com's error page
http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2013/5/23/4359426/mlb-error-page-gifs
Now pitching for the Pirates --- Jose Contreras?!
welly gets his 2nd walk of the season in his 141st PA.
I imagine that things will pick up a bit with the draft, promotions, and trades. It seems that most of the remaining posters are on board with the rebuilding process so the discussions have been slim.
all kidding aside, this team really has been running on a single bright spot (the starting rotation) and rizzo pounding the ball hard when he's not slumping (and his extension)
welly's doing as expected (though a few more homers/doubles would be nice)...valbuena is helping people forget about i.stewart, though he's not doing anything extraordinary...kevin gregg has been a nice surprise as the new closer...castro is being castro, though a few more walks or hits would be nice since he's performing slightly below expectations...
It's definitely hard to get excited about this team. When they suck like this it feels like a huge part of my summer is just completely missing, so I want to come here and get a little bit of a Cubs fix, but lately it's 100% split squad games at Fitch Park. I can't stand any of the major newspapers' coverage, and I really don't like BCB or any of the other Cubs blogs. I guess I just miss the good old days with 200+ comment threads, even if 90% of it was just The Real Neal arguing with himself.
The people demand more free entertainment, Rob G!
broken link...probably cuz MLB protects their rights on the innerweb on a scale music + film industries should be jealous of.
click this... http://mlb.com/ajkls
refresh for different lulz.
official Cubs MLB squad post for april/may - everyone sucks except for the starting pitching (sans e.jackson) and when a.rizzo isn't on a no-hit, major-K streak
save to cut/paste for june-september
So I haven't commented much lately, and I don't want to be that guy, but is this site now exclusively dedicated to Extended Spring Training? I absolutely love everything AZ Phil brings to the table, but could we maybe get a few posts about the big league squad?
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Nice start for Almora -- 3-4 with a double for Kane County.
Baez has picked it up lately, hits in 13 of his last 14 games..something like 19/56 with 3 BB and 9 K over that span.
That Liberace movie is on HBO this week end.
/just saying
wow...that rizzo K in the 8th was a swing even sammy sosa would rag on.