What an international baseball news week we had with the Daisuke Matsuzaka posting won by the Boston Red Sox and the rather surprising news the highest bid for Akinori Iwamura was submitted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
It had been expected the Yakult Swallows third baseman would be negotiating with the San Diego Padres, Cleveland Indians or possibly the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Tampa thing came like a bolt out of the blue.
The American League East may soon have a huge Japanese fan following.