Shohei Otani Reportedly in Limbo Due to MLBPA Posting-Rule Objections

The Major League Baseball Players Association is reportedly holding up Shohei Otani's move to the United States after challenging the posting agreement between MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball.

On Wednesday, FanRag Sports' Jon Heyman reported the MLBPA retains "the right to approve—or reject—any foreign protocol agreement" and was not satisfied with the agreed-upon terms, which would have allowed Otani's Japanese club, the Nippon Ham-Fighters, to obtain a maximum posting fee of $20 million.

However, Heyman reported "management people wonder if the bigger union concern is over that perceived inequity" and not the posting fee itself since Otani "is limited to a signing bonus of somewhere…