{"id":370214,"date":"2025-12-26T15:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370214\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T15:02:07","slug":"npbs-hanshin-tigers-sign-carson-ragsdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/370214\/","title":{"rendered":"NPB’s Hanshin Tigers Sign Carson Ragsdale"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball announced that right-hander Carson Ragsdale<\/a> has signed a one-year contract.\u00a0 Ragsdale hit the open market after being non-tendered by the Braves last month.<\/p>\n

The move to Japan concludes a whirlwind five-month stretch for Ragsdale that saw the 27-year-old change teams four times on the waiver wire, and make his Major League debut.\u00a0 His breakthrough in the Show consisted of two appearances with the Orioles in September, with very different outcomes \u2014 Ragsdale was torched for eight earned runs over three innings in Baltimore\u2019s 11-2 loss to the Blue Jays on September 14, but he rebounded for two scoreless innings in the Orioles\u2019 6-1 loss to the Yankees on September 27.\u00a0 As a result, Ragsdale\u2019s career line as a big leaguer is a 14.40 ERA over five innings of work.<\/p>\n

These two games represent two separate stints for Ragsdale in an Orioles uniform.\u00a0 Claimed off waivers from the Giants in early August, Ragsdale was designated for assignment by the O\u2019s after his rough MLB debut, and then claimed by the Braves.\u00a0 He lasted just over a week in Atlanta\u2019s organization since the Braves DFA\u2019s Ragsdale in order to clear roster space for Charlie Morton<\/a>, and Ragsdale was claimed again by the Orioles, paving the way for his second outing on a big league mound.\u00a0 The yo-yo continued for Ragsdale when he was designated at the start of November, and then claimed once more by the Braves.<\/p>\n

Signing a guaranteed deal with the Tigers represents some stability for Ragsdale in the wake of this transactional flurry, and a chance to showcase that he can do as a starting pitcher.\u00a0 Ragsdale has a 5.15 ERA, 21.24% strikeout rate, and 11.73% walk rate over 143 1\/3 innings at the Triple-A level, with most of that time spent in the hitter-friendly Pacific Coast League pitching with San Francisco\u2019s top affiliate.\u00a0 The 2025 season saw Ragsdale post only a 19.5% strikeout rate, after he easily cleared the 30% threshold earlier in his career while pitching in the lower minors.<\/p>\n

Eighty of Ragsdale\u2019s 89 career games in the minors came as a starting pitcher, and it can be assumed that the Tigers will give Ragsdale a look in their rotation.\u00a0 The righty will try to become the latest hurler to re-invent himself with a move to Japan, and performing well in more of a generally pitcher-friendly environment could help boost Ragsdale\u2019s stock for a possible return to North American baseball down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball announced that right-hander Carson Ragsdale has signed a one-year contract.\u00a0 Ragsdale…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,123053,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-370214","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-carson-ragsdale","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370214","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=370214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}