A’s add Japanese righty who used to be Ohtani’s rival, per report

The A’s made perhaps their biggest addition of the offseason Wednesday, adding Japanese pitcher Shintaro Fujinami from the Hanshin Tigers.

Fujinami was posted by the Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan last month, and the A’s have agreed to bring him in on a one-year deal pending a physical, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Terms of the deal have not been reported and the team has not yet announced the signing.