{"id":363462,"date":"2025-12-22T00:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363462\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T00:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T00:17:11","slug":"npbs-yomiuri-giants-sign-bobby-dalbec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/363462\/","title":{"rendered":"NPB&#8217;s Yomiuri Giants Sign Bobby Dalbec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball have signed infielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dalbebo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-12-21_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bobby Dalbec<\/a> to a one-year contract, according to multiple reports from Japan.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/12\/bobby-dalbec-has-new-home-on-new-continent-a-year-after-end-of-red-sox-tenure.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MassLive.com\u2019s Chris Cotillo<\/a> reports that Dalbec\u2019s salary is worth more than $1MM.<\/p>\n<p>A highly-touted prospect during his time in the Red Sox farm system, Dalbec is now 30 years old and at a crossroads in his baseball career.\u00a0 Dalbec burst onto the scene with a .959 OPS and eight home runs over his first 92 plate appearances in the majors in 2020, and his first full MLB season saw the slugger hit .240\/.298\/.494 with 25 homers over 453 PA with the Sox in 2021.\u00a0 Beyond that lopsided slash line, Dalbec struck out in 156 of his 453 PA.<\/p>\n<p>The swing-and-miss eventually overwhelmed Dalbec\u2019s production entirely, as he batted only .199\/.272\/.328 over 520 PA with the Red Sox and White Sox from 2022-25, with a 37.5% strikeout rate to show from that stretch.\u00a0 Boston parted ways with Dalbec after the 2024 season, and after a minor league deal with Chicago led to only seven MLB games in 2025, Dalbec elected free agency after being designated for assignment in May.\u00a0 Subsequent minors contracts with the Brewers and Royals didn\u2019t result in any more big league playing time, and Dalbec became a minor league free agent at season\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>Dalbec hasn\u2019t been able to figure things out against MLB pitching, but he has a career .263\/.351\/.520 slash line and 89 homers over 1534 PA at the Triple-A level.\u00a0 Even with a 33.57% strikeout rate accompanying those numbers, Dalbec\u2019s ability to produce in Triple-A ball bodes well for his chances of carrying his power over to NPB.\u00a0 It is easy to see why the Giants think Dalbec can bring plenty of thump to their lineup, and if Dalbec can cut back the strikeouts, he might put himself back on the radar for big league teams down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball have signed infielder Bobby Dalbec to a one-year contract, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,197756,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-363462","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-bobby-dalbec","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363462","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=363462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}