{"id":231872,"date":"2025-10-22T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231872\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T07:11:12","slug":"franmil-reyes-re-signs-with-npbs-hokkaido-nippon-ham-fighters-on-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231872\/","title":{"rendered":"Franmil Reyes Re-Signs With NPB\u2019s Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters On One-Year Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former big leaguer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/reyesfr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Franmil Reyes<\/a> has re-signed with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball, according to reports out of Japan (hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yakyucosmo\/status\/1980457578263171391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yakyu Cosmopolitan<\/a>). \u00a0Reyes\u2019 agent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dominguezedwin_\/status\/1980805816732057839\" rel=\"nofollow\">has posted on X<\/a> that it\u2019s a one-year contract, so he will be a free agent after the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>It is easy to see why the Fighters wanted to lock Reyes up, as he has provided some big pop over his two NPB seasons.\u00a0 Reyes has hit .282\/.347\/.535 with 57 home runs over 899 plate appearances with the Kitahiroshima-based club, helping carry the Fighters to second-place finishes in the Pacific League in each of the last two seasons.\u00a0 The Fighters\u2019 240 home runs over the last two seasons is the most of any NPB team, with Reyes\u2019 power bat leading the way.<\/p>\n<p>This slugging ability was evident over most of Reyes\u2019 six Major League seasons, as he posted 108 big flies and a .264\/.310\/.464 slash line over 2078 PA with the Padres, Guardians, Cubs, and Royals from 2018-23.\u00a0 Unfortunately for Reyes, his production suddenly cratered in 2022, leading Cleveland to option him to Triple-A and then designate him for assignment that summer.\u00a0 Subsequent stints with the Cubs, Royals, and (on a minor league contract) Nationals didn\u2019t see Reyes regain his stroke, so he opted to head overseas following the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>MLBTR\u2019s post initially indicated that Reyes signed a multi-year contract. We apologize for the error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former big leaguer Franmil Reyes has re-signed with the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,139621,591,85],"class_list":["post-231872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-franmil-reyes","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}