Japanese right-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara is looking to move to Major League Baseball, according to a report.
Ogasawara will ask the Chunichi Dragons to make him available to Major League teams via the posting system this offseason.
The 27-year-old has appeared with the Dragons in each of the last nine Nippon Professional Baseball seasons. However, since he is short of nine full years of NPB service time, Ogasawara will need to be posted in order to make the move to North American baseball.
Ogasawara has a 3.66 ERA over 1095 career innings for the Dragons, and he has tossed at least 141 1/3 innings in each of the last four seasons.