Hiroyuki Nakajima Re-Signs With Seibu Lions
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After failing to come to a contract agreement with the Yankees, Hiroyuki
Nakajima has returned to a Seibu Lions on a one-year contract worth $3.64MM
plus incentives according to a Sanspo report passed along by Patrick Newman
of NPB Tracker. The 29-year-old shortstop will become an international free
agent after the season and is expected to pursue a deal with an MLB team.
The Yankees won Nakajima's negotiating rights with a $2MM bid in
early-December. They offered a one-year contract but money was reportedly not
the reason they failed to come to terms on a contract, instead it was years.
Nakajima wanted to become a free agent after the deal expired while the
Yankees wanted standard control (six years). He hit .297/.354/.433 with 16
home runs and 27 doubles in 633 plate appearances for Seibu in 2011.