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Originally Posted by Chief Rum
My only reservation on whether that's the case is to wonder what the situation is with older Japanese players. Take Dice-K for instance. When his deal runs out, do the Sox still have a couple years of "control" over him?
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Japanese players have it put into their contract that they are exempt from going through arbitration and thus are not bound by the service time requirements everybody else is.
So when Daisuke's contract is up, he is a free agent.