The beauty of bringing Shintaro Fujinami to the New York Mets this offseason was his available minor league options. If he didn’t have these available, it would have been a potential disaster ...

Last summer, Fujinami spent the entire season in the Mets system. He logged 32 1/3 innings with Triple-A Syracuse and posted a poor 6.68 ERA and a 1.52 WHIP and missed time due to a shoulder injury.

OAKLAND, California--Japanese right-hander Shintaro Fujinami has reached agreement on a $3.25 million, one-year contract with the Oakland Athletics, according to a person with direct knowledge of ...