Julio Gutierrez
Mexico City / 03/27/2024 21:56:04
Yesterday it was announced that the MLB had informed its teams of the end of the relationship with foreign leagues, including the LMB, NPB, KBO, CPBL to prevent irregular negotiations from being carried out with Japanese stars.
The bomb was announced by the Nikkan Sports newspaper, one of the newspapers with the greatest circulation in the land of the rising sun, however, sources confirmed that this is misinformation.
Relationships will continue
According to these sources, the goal of the memo was to prevent Major League teams from having exclusive or preferential access to players before they were available to sign with another team.
Per @nikkansportsMLB teams have been informed that MLB’s relationship with other countries’ professional leagues has been terminated to avoid pre-negotiation tampering.
This would include leagues such as NPB, KBO, CPBL, and LMB.
MLB employees will be prohibited from “direct… pic.twitter.com/PUx3CAhnBt
— Shawn Spradling (@Shawn_Spradling) March 26, 2024
Teams will still be able to communicate, share scouting information, facilitate reasonable coaching exchanges in spring training and the MLB instructional league.
Therefore, there is no such break in the relationship between the leagues, on the contrary, they will seek to continue working together for the good of the sport.
2024-03-28 06:58:26
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