• Draftees pay is fixed and you can only negotiate the signing bonus. So far so good.
  
  
• You are likely representing yourself. In 2001, Japanese owners gave players permission to be represented by an agent in contract negotiations. However, the use of agents in Japan remains extremely circumscribed. Agents must be Japanese attorneys and Japanese citizens, and each agent is limited to representing only one player. Japanese management contended that the use of agents would create a contentious atmosphere that would undermine the spirit of cooperation in negotiations with players. Tsuneo Watanabe leader of Japan's most prominent team, the Yomiuri Giants stated, "If one of my players brings an agent into contract negotiations, then we'll cut his salary."
  
  
• A NPB club has control over a player’s labor as a professional baseball player in Japan for a minimum of seven years. This is for domestic free agency. And those years only count if you are on a team's main 28 man roster. International free agency is 9 years service time. Only twenty-nine players in the NPB used free agency to change clubs between 1993 and 2012.
  
  
• Free agent signings incur compensation:
  “A rank” players were in a team’s top three players for salary and compensation is either money (80 per cent of the player’s last salary) or money (50 per cent of player’s salary) and one unprotected player.
  “B rank” players were in a team’s top four to ten salary earners and compensation is either money (60 per cent of the player’s last salary) or money (40 per cent of player’s salary) and one unprotected player.
  “C rank” players are all other players and teams receive no compensation for these players.
  Hiroshima Carp have never signed a NPB free agent. (as of 2015)
  
  
• First year salary of a free agent who transfers to a new club cannot exceed the salary paid by his current club.
  
  
• A player who changes NPB club as a domestic free agent must complete an additional four years of service to become an international free agent.
  
  
• Most players only sign 1 year contracts. Again most likely with no agent. Contracts are based on last years performance.
  
  
• In Japanese baseball salary arbitration is more properly characterized as a privilege that may be requested by a player, but that does not have to be granted. Players are theoretically eligible for salary arbitration every year if they can not agree with their club.
  
  
• Salary arbitration in Japan are reviewed by a three-person panel consisting of the NPB commissioner and the two league presidents. No neutral party, and no pro-player party.
  
  
• There have only been six decisions by the salary arbitration panel in Nippon Professional Baseball. Only once has the player won.
  

Inspector_666 fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Dec 6, 2016

will_colorado fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Dec 6, 2016