San Francisco Giants president of baseball operations Buster Posey revealed what went into the team's free-agent pitch to Japanese star pitcher Roki Sasaki.

Like every competent team in baseball, the Giants were in on the hot-shot Japanese free-agent pitcher, who, like Shohei Ohtani before him, is limited to signing a minor-league deal with a Major League team. That massively discounted rate allowed every team to sign him.