The Los Angeles Dodgers have become a common landing spot recently for Nippon Professional Baseball players making the jump to Major League Baseball.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani and Rōki Sasaki all play in Los Angeles now, and the allure of playing alongside fellow Japanese players is definitely a selling point in free agency. However, Japanese pitcher Tatsuya Imai apparently does not want to play for the Dodgers. Imai was posted on Nov. 18 and is one of the best free agents available this winter.

Imai told former Boston Red Sox star Daisuke Matsuzaka on the show, “Hodo Station," that he would rather not join the Dodgers superteam alongside other Japanese superstars.

“Of course, I’d enjoy playing alongside Ohtani, Yamamoto and Sasaki,” Imai told Matsuzaka, according to The Athlet

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