But conversations with multiple executives, scouts and agents revealed a shared suspicion: MLB teams are planning for Sasaki to be posted this offseason, long before he would become an international free agent, even though neither Sasaki nor his team will confirm the plan.
MLB scouts and executives seem to think Sasaki is coming, too. They are scouting him regularly. They are traveling to Japan to see him. And they are keeping international bonus space clear for him, just in case: Because of the limitations on how much any team can pay him, almost every team in baseball, not just the usual free-spending suspects, is likely to make a run.
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