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Darvish Signs for 2009

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Darvish Signs for 2009

by Patrick Newman (Dec 1, 2008)

Yu Darvish has renewed his contract for ¥270m ($2.7m), a ¥70m ($700k) increase over 2008. Although Darvish was expected to hit the ¥300m ($3m) mark, he still set a record high for 5th-year players. "The didn't win and I didn't earn any personal titles," explained Darvish.

NPB players are under team control for a minimum of eight years, and pre-free agent players sign get multi-year contracts (not that I've heard of anyway). So each offseason players and teams negotiate salaries for the upcoming season. It's a little like the arbitration process in MLB, but players' salaries will decrease after a bad year, and there's never a third party mediator involved. Players who hold out sometimes pay their own way to spring training.


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