{"id":302054,"date":"2025-11-22T19:37:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302054\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:37:05","slug":"npbs-hiroshima-carp-sign-freddy-tarnok-re-sign-elehuris-montero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302054\/","title":{"rendered":"NPB’s Hiroshima Carp Sign Freddy Tarnok, Re-Sign Elehuris Montero"},"content":{"rendered":"

11:46AM: Tarnok will earn $1.5MM in guaranteed money, MLB Trade Rumors\u2019 Steve Adams<\/a> reports, with close to $500K in incentive bonuses attached to the contract.<\/p>\n

10:12AM: The Hiroshima Carp have signed right-hander Freddy Tarnok<\/a> and re-signed infielder Elehuris Montero<\/a> to contracts for the 2026 season, the team announced.\u00a0 The terms of Tarnok\u2019s deal aren\u2019t known, but Montero will receive $1.25MM (broken down as a $750K salary and $500K signing bonus) plus incentives.<\/p>\n

Tarnok has appeared in 11 games over parts of three Major League seasons, with five of those games coming with the Marlins in 2025.\u00a0 Signed to a minor league deal last offseason, Tarnok had his contract selected to the 40-man and active rosters in June, and he posted a 2.45 ERA over 7 1\/3 innings amidst several options back and forth from Triple-A and the majors.\u00a0 The righty struck out 35.7% of batters during his small sample size of MLB work, but also had a 14.3% walk rate.<\/p>\n

To some extent, Tarnok\u2019s increasingly shaky control and his ability to miss bats has been the story of his minor league career, which consists of stops in the farm systems of the Marlins, Phillies, A\u2019s, and Braves.\u00a0 Tarnok has a 4.08 ERA over 161 innings at the Triple-A level, starting 28 of those 65 games as he has been used more frequently as a reliever in recent years.<\/p>\n

The move to Japan might well give Tarnok another chance to re-establish himself as a starting pitcher.\u00a0 Tarnok is just two days away from celebrating his 27th birthday, so he\u2019s plenty young enough to post some good numbers with the Carp and perhaps get himself back onto the radar for big league teams as early as next winter.\u00a0 If nothing else, signing in NPB will land Tarnok some guaranteed money, whereas he would\u2019ve very likely had to settle for another minor league deal from a Major League team.<\/p>\n

Montero hit .228\/.277\/.387 over 739 plate appearances with the Rockies from 2022-24, and is perhaps best known as part of the trade package the Cardinals sent to Colorado for Nolan Arenado<\/a> prior to the 2021 season.\u00a0 Montero\u2019s first season in Hiroshima saw the 27-year-old hit .255\/.301\/.391 with nine home runs over 396 PA as the Carp\u2019s regular first baseman.\u00a0 While not huge numbers for a first base bat, Montero seems to have done enough for the Carp to pursue a reunion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:46AM: Tarnok will earn $1.5MM in guaranteed money, MLB Trade Rumors\u2019 Steve Adams reports, with close to $500K…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,172582,87618,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-302054","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-elehuris-montero","11":"tag-freddy-tarnok","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302054","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=302054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}