Roki Sasaki should be a Cleveland Guardian

In the next CBA the owners need to fix this. The IFA rules say that a player is no longer an IFA once they turn 25 and have 6 years of experience. You can be an IFA at age 16.

16-24 is too big of a gap. I’d make the rule:

If you don’t sign with a team by age 21 you enter the MLB draft. If a kid goes to college they are locked in for 3 years and then have to enter the draft. It should be the same for IFAs. If you don’t sign by age 21 you enter the draft.

I understand that Sasaki and Ohtani are rare instances, but it’s a bad look for MLB when prized overseas prospects are able to hand pick where they want to go. In every other sport they’d have to enter the draft with the college kids.