Japan's Kenta Maeda wants to be posted to MLB

Source: www.sbnation.com --- Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Wednesday's Say Hey, Baseball includes a potential NPB posting, MLB and domestic abuse, and a look at the daily fantasy sports debate. Subscribe for your daily Say Hey! Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the Baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s OK, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each morning, and find the things you need to see from within the SB Nation Baseball network as well as from elsewhere. Please hold your applause until the end, or at least until after you subscribe to the newsletter . * * * His team has denied him the last two seasons, but the NPB's Kenta Maeda might finally get his wish to be posted to MLB. Maeda currently pitches for the Hiroshima Carp, and while he's not considered to be on the same level as the last two major pitchers to be posted from Japan -- Yu Darvish and Masahiro Tanaka -- Maeda would still be an intriguing and potentially productive addition to an already strong free agent class. Maeda has twice won NPB's version of the Cy Young, the Sawumara. He'll be only 28 years old during the 2016 season, has a 2.39 ERA in his eight-year career, and has thrown over 200 innings on four different occasions, the most recent during 2015. The concern is that he does ...

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