{"id":275397,"date":"2025-11-10T12:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275397\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:36:06","slug":"tatsuya-imai-to-become-next-japanese-pitcher-to-move-to-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/275397\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatsuya Imai to become next Japanese pitcher to move to MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov 10, 2025, 06:14 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO &#8212; Tatsuya Imai is likely to be the next Japanese pitcher to move to a Major League team after his club, Seibu Lions, said Monday it would begin the process of making him available &#8212; a process called &#8220;posting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Imai, 27, had a record of 10-5 this season with an ERA of 1.92. The right-hander has a powerful fastball and has played his entire career in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The news of his posting comes on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/46882311\/sources-japanese-home-run-king-munetaka-murakami-posts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japanese star third baseman Munetaka Murakami starting the posting process<\/a> on Friday, according to sources. Murakami, 25, owns the single-season home run record for a Japanese player in Nippon Professional Baseball. He hit 56 homers in 2022, breaking Sadaharu Oh&#8217;s record 55 set in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement with Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball, the posting period for a player runs from Nov. 1 until Dec. 15. Players have 45 days following the posting to reach an agreement with an MLB team.<\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 10, 2025, 06:14 AM ET TOKYO &#8212; Tatsuya Imai is likely to be the next Japanese pitcher&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-275397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275397","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=275397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}