{"id":290882,"date":"2025-11-14T09:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290882\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:51:10","slug":"roansy-contreras-signs-with-npbs-tohoku-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/290882\/","title":{"rendered":"Roansy Contreras Signs With NPB&#8217;s Tohoku Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan\u2019s Nippon Professional Baseball announced they\u2019ve <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Rakuten__Eagles\/status\/1989138262292824367\" rel=\"nofollow\">signed<\/a> right-hander\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/contrro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Roansy Contreras<\/a> for the 2026 season. The Rep 1 Baseball client had been on the Rockies\u2019 40-man roster. Colorado announced this afternoon that he was being released to pursue an overseas opportunity, dropping their roster count to 38.<\/p>\n<p>Contreras is a former top pitching prospect who has spent parts of five seasons in the big leagues. He was a key part of the Pirates\u2019 return from the Yankees in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/taillja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-13_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jameson Taillon<\/a> trade and found a bit of early success out of the Pittsburgh rotation. Things went off the rails in the 2023 season, though, and he has bounced around as a journeyman reliever over the past few seasons. Contreras has pitched for four clubs over the last three years. He owns a 5.48 earned run average across 149 1\/3 big league frames in that time.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old spent most of this past season in Triple-A in the Baltimore system. Contreras started 14 of 28 outings for their top affiliate in Norfolk, working to a 3.73 ERA despite a middling 17.8% strikeout rate in 91 2\/3 innings. Baltimore called him up at the end of August but put him back on waivers after one appearance. Colorado claimed him for the final month of the season. Contreras gave up eight runs over 8 1\/3 innings before suffering a season-ending hand contusion.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a decent chance the Rockies would have pushed him off the 40-man roster this offseason. He\u2019s out of options, so even if he held the roster spot all winter, he would\u2019ve needed to win a bullpen job out of camp or be placed back on waivers. It\u2019s understandable he\u2019d rather take the guaranteed payday and try his luck in Japan rather than battle for low-leverage work at Coors Field. Contreras is young enough to be an interesting MLB free agent a couple years from now if he misses more bats in NPB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan\u2019s Nippon Professional Baseball announced they\u2019ve signed right-hander\u00a0Roansy Contreras for the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[152583,99],"class_list":["post-290882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-roansy-contreras","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}