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Red Sox bid on Tsuyoshi Nishioka falls short 11.26.10 at 1:56 pm ET
By Rob Bradford

According to a baseball source, the Red Sox placed a posting bid for Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka in the mid-$2 million range. However, the Sox were outbid by the Twins, who won the right to negotiate with the 26-year-old switch-hitter with a bid that was described by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune as $5 million and that Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com suggested (via Twitter) was “about $5.3 million.

The Twins’ bid will entitle them to have exclusive negotiating rights to Nishioka for 30 days. If they reach a contract agreement with the Japanese star, they will pay the Chiba Lotte Marines the posting fee that they bid. If they fail to reach an agreement with him, the Twins will owe the Marines nothing.

Nishioka hit .346 with a .423 OBP, .905 OPS, 206 hits and 121 runs for Chiba Lotte in 2010.

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    So lets get this right you want Crawford, 20 million, Werth 18 million, Gonzalez 22 million, Pedy & Youk in a couple of years will get 15 to 16 million, Lester 16 million, Lackey 15 million, Beckett 15 million, Kenerko 15 million, That’s
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    kenerko at 15 mil? naaaahh…tisk tisk jason bay tisk tisk. you could have actually made a reasonable point, but your stupidity took over once again. shux

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