{"id":274241,"date":"2025-11-10T13:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274241\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:17:10","slug":"japanese-ace-tatsuya-imai-to-be-posted-to-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274241\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese ace Tatsuya Imai to be posted to MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 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 \u2014 a process called \u201cposting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tatsuya 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>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO \u2014 Tatsuya Imai is likely to be the next Japanese pitcher to move to a Major League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-274241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}