In the AL, the Red Sox are very serious about making a pitch to the Sasaki team. The main selling point might be the history of Japanese pitchers having success and positive experiences playing in Boston: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Uehara and Junichi Tazawa.
They have an impressive pitching development program and it certainly doesn't hurt when the general manager, Craig Breslow, can speak directly to it (as opposed to just handing it off to 'the experts'). Breslow also personally scouted Sasaki for one of his starts in Japan in September.
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