Whenever Major League Baseball's lockout ends and the free-agent market opens back up, one of the hottest players available will be a slugger coming off a season marked by a 1.069 OPS and 38 home runs.
If these numbers don't look familiar to MLB fans, it's because Seiya Suzuki put them up in Japan.
Though the Hiroshima Carp originally posted Suzuki in November, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reported the clock isn't ticking on the slugger's 30-day negotiation window. It's on pause until MLB's lockout lifts upon a new collective bargaining agreement being reached.