Yes. If he gets DFA-d, he can get picked up by another MLB team to continue. Since they only have to pay like 1-2M this year and 10M/y for the next two years, he'll relatively be a steal. So he'll stay in the MLB.
His agent is Boras; he isn't magically gonna end up in Japan cause we turned him down lol.
Considering they stopped starting him entirely, they came to those terms a while back.
This game is a Frankenstein of bullpen so we can set up well against Rays. If Kikuchi keeps us in, great; if he throws, oh well.
He's mostly a GBall pitcher that has a chance of getting BABIP'd; he just can't walk or hit batters to add to that - which he has been doing since ASB.