{"id":82173,"date":"2025-12-05T01:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82173\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:59:21","slug":"giants-zack-minasian-responds-to-report-of-tatsuya-imai-talks-nbc-sports-bay-area-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/82173\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants\u2019 Zack Minasian responds to report of Tatsuya Imai talks \u2013 NBC Sports Bay Area &#038; California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giants general manager Zack Minasian, on Thursday, was given a chance\u00a0to respond to reporting from The Athletic&#8217;s Andrew Baggarly that San Francisco isn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsportsbayarea.com\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/tatsuya-imai-price-tag\/1895876\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected to match the bidding<\/a> for Japanese star pitcher Tatsuya Imai.<\/p>\n<p>Although MLB tampering rules\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0allow Minasian to comment about specific free agents, the San Francisco GM\u00a0appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/murph-markus-podcast\/12-4-zack-minasian-joins-the-show-to-share-his-perspective-on-the-giants-free-agency-spending-winter-meetings-ron-washington-joining-the-giants-coaching-staff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KNBR\u2019s \u201cMurph and Markus\u201d<\/a> and provided\u00a0some insight into the front office\u2019s free agency approach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s obviously very well-known &#8212; our activity on other players who have come over from those countries, and we\u2019re going to continue to be active with players who have a chance to make the team better,\u201d Minasian explained. \u201cNow, I think\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0on us as a front office to make good decisions, and\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0going to continue to push ourselves to do that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Giants are willing and able to sign international stars.\u00a0In 2024, San Francisco signed KBO star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/leeju01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jung Hoo Lee<\/a>\u00a0to a six-year, $113 million contract.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have an ownership group that\u2019s always been extremely supportive,\u201d Minasian noted.\u00a0\u201cI think a lot of those\u00a0things as far as contract-wise, payroll-wise;\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0always been player specific.\u00a0And that\u2019s, as a baseball operations group, we\u00a0have to\u00a0take that\u00a0responsibility\u00a0of any\u00a0particular player\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0signing \u2013 is this a good decision or not?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, continuing to go through that and feel those things out, but continuing to look at really all avenues of continuing to bring in talent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While Minasian&#8217;s comments\u00a0do\u00a0not\u00a0indicate\u00a0that the Giants are closed off to signing an international star like Imai,\u00a0it appears that they\u00a0will be very thorough in\u00a0weighing\u00a0his talent against\u00a0other available options this offseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giants-talk-a-san-francisco-giants-podcast.simplecast.com\/episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Download and follow the Giants Talk Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants general manager Zack Minasian, on Thursday, was given a chance\u00a0to respond to reporting from The Athletic&#8217;s Andrew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105,44540,46804],"class_list":{"0":"post-82173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news","14":"tag-tatsuya-imai","15":"tag-zack-minasian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}