{"id":905569,"date":"2026-11-04T12:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/905569\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:16:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:16:18","slug":"re-ranking-the-10-best-moves-of-the-2025-26-mlb-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/905569\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Ranking the 10 Best Moves of the 2025-26 MLB Offseason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Murakami Date: Dec. 21, 2025<br \/>Murakami Transaction: Signed a two-year, $34 million deal in free agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Okamoto Date: Jan. 4, 2026<br \/>Okamoto Transaction: Signed a four-year, $60 million deal in free agency<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Two of Japan&#8217;s most accomplished sluggers made the move stateside last offseason. Both debuted with a bang and immediately emerged as middle-of-the-order threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Murakami: 127 G, 130 OPS+, 35 HR, 77 RBI, 2.3 WAR<br \/>Okamoto: 156 G, 107 OPS+, 33 HR, 92 RBI, 2.5 WAR<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">The swing-and-miss concerns that caused Murakami&#8217;s market to fall flat were not unfounded. He batted .207 with a 35.5 percent strikeout rate, but he was undoubtedly a key cog in the middle of the upstart White Sox offense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Okamoto set Toronto&#8217;s rookie home run record. He also proved to be a better-than-expected third baseman after some thought that he might fit best across the diamond at first base.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">All in all, two extremely successful signings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Murakami Date: Dec. 21, 2025Murakami Transaction: Signed a two-year, $34 million deal in free agency Okamoto Date: Jan.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-905569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905569","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=905569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}