{"id":947208,"date":"2026-10-26T18:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947208\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T18:20:22","slug":"former-yankees-slugger-matsui-becomes-newest-yomiuri-giants-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/947208\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Yankees slugger Matsui becomes newest Yomiuri Giants manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89143\" data-attachment-id=\"89143\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nwasianweekly.com\/2026\/10\/former-yankees-slugger-matsui-becomes-newest-yomiuri-giants-manager\/sport-mlb-baseball\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/nwasianweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hideki_Matsui_in_USA-10.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;KEITH ALLISON&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1D Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;New York Yankees Hideki Matsui watches his fly ball against the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday, June 28, 2007 in Baltimore.&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1183061732&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;420&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.001&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;SPORT MLB BASEBALL&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SPORT MLB BASEBALL\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Hideki Matsui. June 28, 2007. Via Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Keith Allison.&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hideki_Matsui_in_USA-10-683x1024.jpg\" class=\"size-large wp-image-89143\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Hideki_Matsui_in_USA-10-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-89143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hideki Matsui. June 28, 2007. Via Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Keith Allison.<\/p>\n<p>The Yomiuri Giants have tapped former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui as the Japanese team\u2019s new manager. Matsui will serve in that position until he leaves for the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Matsui moved to Major League Baseball in 2003, and spent most of his two-decade pro career with the Yankees. During his pro career, he hit a combined 507 home runs in both Japan and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Matsui will replace interim manager Hideki Hashigami, who became the Giants\u2019 manager earlier this year, after Shinnosuke Abe resigned.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hideki Matsui. June 28, 2007. Via Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Keith Allison. The Yomiuri Giants have tapped former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":947209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-947208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947208","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=947208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/947209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}