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On the posting system, which brought pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to the Red Sox in December for a posting bid of $51.1 million, and any possible changes to the system:
"It's a difficult issue obviously because you're dealing with two separate systems and two separate legal systems involved. The primary question is one which has to do with the circumstances under which an individual can be a free agent in Japan, Japanese law and the Japanese contracts. I think that obviously it got our notice and it got Major League Baseball's notice. If you have substantial dollars -- as happened in this case -- which flow out of Major League Baseball and they don't go to players and they don't go to owners. If your question is are there specific plans to revisit that, the answer is no. But my guess is it's one of those issues when you get a case like this, people will begin to do some analysis and review it.
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