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One topic also mentioned in this Japanese article on Yahoo! Japan Sports (via Jiji Tsuushin), is that there was discussion on reducing the number of years to reach free agency from 9, down to 7.
I can see a bunch of teams, especially the Giants, opposing this vehemently because they would lose some big names as soon as next season.