This year’s free-agent class is already shaping up to be one of the more complicated and intricate in recent memory. With former franchise anchors hitting the open market to join new teams, the makeup of Major League Baseball has the potential to shift dramatically over the next few weeks (or even months).
With that said, there is one unconventional name that has graced the reports of some of baseball’s most respected insiders: Yusei Kikuchi. The Japanese southpaw, who spent the 2018 season with the Saitama Seibu Lions of the Japan Pacific League, is represented by American super-agent Scott Boras.