{"id":934581,"date":"2026-10-20T05:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934581\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T05:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T05:30:11","slug":"top-npb-slugger-teruaki-sato-set-to-test-mlb-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/934581\/","title":{"rendered":"Top NPB slugger Teruaki Sato set to test MLB market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teruaki Sato, Japanese baseball\u2019s top slugger, will attempt to move to MLB through the posting system this offseason, the Hanshin Tigers announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will support Teruaki Sato\u2019s long-held wish to take on the challenge of playing in MLB next season,\u201d general manager Satoshi Shimamura said during a news conference, according to Sports Nippon. \u201cIn other words, the team will approve his posting this offseason.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sato, the reigning Central League MVP and presumptive favorite for the award this year, won the CL Triple Crown this season with a .306 average, 39 home runs and 106 RBIs. He is one of just nine players to win a Triple Crown in NPB and the first since 2022, when Munetaka Murakami, who just completed his first season in MLB with the Chicago White Sox, achieved the feat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teruaki Sato, Japanese baseball\u2019s top slugger, will attempt to move to MLB through the posting system this offseason,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,501233,591,200592,501234,85,257781],"class_list":["post-934581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hanshin-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-npb","tag-satoshi-shimamura","tag-sports","tag-teruaki-sato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934581","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=934581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}