Eagles allow Tanaka to go to majors through posting system

SENDAI, Japan - Yozo Tachibana, president of the Japanese baseball club Rakuten Eagles, speaks at a news conference at the club's office in Sendai on Dec. 25, 2013, after talks with the team's ace pitcher Masahiro Tanaka. The club agreed to release Tanaka through the posting system. Tanaka told the club on Nov. 17, soon after Nippon Professional Baseball had agreed to Major League Baseball's terms on a new posting system, that he wished to move to the majors.

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