Here are the top ten salaries in Nippon Professional Baseball, denominated in Yen:
The salary figures are in yen. 440 million would convert to about 3.39 million.
So the highest paid player in Japan gets paid for about 1/2 WAR in the US. That gap will continue to cause a drain of talent from Japan until they decide to compete with MLB.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1RkUZye
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