While this winter’s free agent class is surely to be dominated by infielders, and specifically shortstops for the most part, we learned on Friday that a very good outfielder from the NPB will be available to teams as well. Jon Morosi reported that Seiya Suzuki will be posted at some point this winter by the Hiroshima Carp.
Suzuki has been one of the best players in Japan for a few years now, consistently posting an OPS over .900 year in and year out. This year the right-handed batter has hit .319/.436/.644 with 38 homers in 131 games.