Fanball Article: The New Talent Pool

That one was a very good article, confusion about the posting sytem aside. Very refreshing after yet another Doom and Gloom one on another thread.

The main focus appears to be information for MLB fantasy baseball prospects. Perhaps somebody should point out this thread to Mitchell-san in regards to sizing up tallent crossing over from JPB to MLB.

On a technical note, I failed to see any relationship between the article and the topics listed on the forum with the same "topic~feature" ID. Is their forum software broken? Or are the features and forum unrelated?

(By the way, if you find anything broken here, I do hope you'll submit a note to let me know. Lots of changes are happening right now, and I may have missed something.)

It's a good article, but he made some major errors about the posting system. First of all, it has nothing to do with free agents; they sign where they will; that's the whole point of being a free agent. And Major League Baseball doesn't "post" anything, the team of the player in question "posts" him. (Come to think of it, who came up with the name "posting system"? It seems rather odd...)

Anyway, I'll send him an email letting him know of his errors, but I doubt anything will come of it...

Most work visas issued by the Japanese government to resident foreigners are called "posting visas". The idea is that one is posted to Japan by one's firm or other employer (US Foreign Service officers are "posted" to their overseas locations). J-Ball has borrowed this term to refer to Japanese players moving to MLB under the new system.