According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, Kosuke Fukudome is coming to the MLB. He is getting ready to notify the Tokyo Giants he will decline their offer. The main suitors for him are the Cubs, Padres, White Sox, and maybe the Rangers. Its been rumored the Padres have offered Fukudome a 3 year 36 million dollar contract and the Cubs a 3 year 45 million dollar one. The Cubs and White Sox are willing to pay the highest for his services but he may want to play on the West Coast. Fukudome's agent Joe Urbon had denied Fukudome has made the decision to jump to the MLB. Urbon said "he's not going to decide until Tuesday, or Monday our time," and he had to say "if he had made that decision, you would have seen it out of Japan by now." So if Fukudome wants more money the Cubs and White Sox will be the high bidders. The Cubs are the favorite, Fukudome wants a hitter friendly park, a team that can contend now, and a 3 year deal. The Cubs can offer all of that, Wrigley is definetely a hitters park, we just won the NL Central, and we can offer a 3 year deal with a lot of money tacked on. Kosuke will make his decision on what MLB team he will choose to sign with by this weekend. We will hopefully know he's become a Chicago Cub in the next 72 hours or so.
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