NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- At least one Major League Baseball team had submitted a bid for Japanese star pitcher Yu Darvish by Wednesday's deadline, MLB officials said.
The bid, or bids, will be passed along to Darvish's Japanese team, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, which will have four days to decide which U.S. team will have exclusive rights to negotiate with the 25-year-old right-hander. That team will then have 30 days to reach a deal with Darvish before his rights revert to the Japanese squad.