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If you thought that the money in football has gone crazy, take a look at how much the Red Sox have paid just to be able to negotiate with this guy.

 

Red Sox win Matsuzaka bid

 

Winning bid to negotiate with Japanese star is $51.1 million

 

By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com

 

 

NAPLES, Fla. -- The Boston Red Sox have won the U.S. rights to negotiate with star Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka of the Seibu Lions and it could cost them plenty.

The annoucement was made jointly on Tuesday night (Wednesday morning in Japan) by Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball commissioners' offices. In Tokyo, Lions officials said Boston's winning bid was $51.1 million, far and away the highest ever for an Asian player and dwarfing the $13.1 million Seattle paid the Orix BlueWave six years ago for the right to sign Ichiro Suzuki.

 

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