Alright, humor me for a few minutes. I know the likelihood of this is incredibly small. But if you can’t ever get excited about something like this why even live at all?

So, allow me to tell you why Japanese star Roki Sasaki and the Pittsburgh Pirates are a match made in heaven.

Sasaki is currently being posted to Major League Baseball by his Nippon League team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. Before I dive into Sasaki as a player and a person, here’s a quick reminder of how the posting system goes, per the good folks at Wikipeda:

Under this system, when an NPB player is “posted”, his NPB team notifies the MLB Commissioner, with the posting fee based on the type of contract a player signs and its value.

For minor-league contracts, the fee is a flat 25% of contract’s value; for MLB contracts, the fee is based on the value of the contract that the posted player eventually signs.

The player is then given 30 days to negotiate with any MLB team willing to pay the NPB team’s posting fee. If the player agrees on contract terms with a team before the 30-day period has expired, the NPB team receives the posting fee from the signing MLB team as a transfer fee, and the player is free to play in MLB.

If no MLB team comes to a contract agreement with the posted player, then no fee is paid, and the player’s rights revert to his NPB team.

The window for Sasaki opens today and runs until January 23rd, and there will be tons of inquiries about the righty.