For Japan's sports news media and professional baseball audience, the player contract movements during the baseball off-season are definitely one of the hottest and most followed topics of the year, even without qualifying it as "one of."
During the "contract renewal" period from November this year to January next year, major media outlets report on the players' negotiation progress daily, like a serialized drama, generating heat rivaling that of the playing season.
Although it's only mid-November now, and the renewal processes of various teams have just started, keen and well-informed professional journalists have already dug up some major stories:
[Rakuten's Tanaka Masahiro, bidding process begins, more than 10 Major League teams vying, who will win the Divine Son?]
[Seibu's Yongjing Xiuzhang declares domestic FA! Rode and Yakult are interested!]
