Was the Tatsuya Imai deal bad? #baseball #mlb #astros
January 2, 2026
Was the Tatsuya Imai deal bad? #baseball #mlb #astros
29 comments
Astros fix pitchers. He will be fine
Dodger fan. I didnt like the Yamamoto signing. 2 years later. Iv changed my tune lol. Point is let's critique after the season and see what he does.
The biggest thing here is he had opt outs after every year and maybe some teams or all teams didn’t want to offer him that
Hideki Irabu 2.0
I feel like it’s gunna be like Roki sasaki’s rookie year for his first year ngl
Who projected 150 million?
So his fastball will become a sinker and his slider will become a sinker.
If Imai isn't on your team, you'll downplay him; if he is, you'd be ecstatic and hopeful. We don't know if he'll live up to the hype, but if he can be a #3 caliber pitcher (what $18M gets today), that's a win for the Astros.
I know you don't what you're talking about. Everyone knows Astros make all pitchers better. They been dping it for years
How the hell did yamamoto get a 235M year contract
Emerson Hancock disrespect will not be tolerated 😤
Can someone explain to me the slider to me? Is it not basically a two seam or Sinker?
今井はMLBのボールの方が投げやすいって言ってたね
Is the MLB stupid that Japanese threw 90 mph and no mlb player could hit him. If you guys have Japanese pitcher, there is still the falsely accused guy that play in Japan
Said he wanted to be in a team to compete against the dodgers and ended up signing with the astros, bro picked the wrong team
"My parents taught me to never take the easy path. Joining a team that wants to win right now and has a history of making pitchers better was the path they believed in for me." Tatsuya Imai
3 years 60 million isnt bad at all.
Other countries should just make their baseball the same as USA… problem solved
Nobody was wrong. YOU were wrong 😳
Yankees should have gotten Imai.
I think Shohei getting a boatload of cash and the massive Yamamoto signing by the Dodgers really clouded what the norm for signing Japanese players is usually like. The MLB has seen more Japanese stars fail to live up to the hype than succeed. Thats why so many of them get "prove it" deals. When there is one or two on the market that's when you see the bidding increase the money and years, if there is multiple you get what Imai and Murakami got
Is armside on his slider not fire? sounds outlier to me
He's really happy to be an astro. He was at both the texans and rockets games
His career BB/9 is 4.4. WHIP of 1.266. Yes they have been reduced the last couple of years but those years also aren’t in the MLB. (ERA 3.15)
Romo Sasaki had a WHIP of 0.88 and a BB/9 of 2 for comparison and he struggled significantly this year. (ERA 2.10)
That’s okay …. This will only help the Astros continue their ownership of the Yanks !
sasaki is better
That’s some TRUE STAT DIVING😳
If no team is willing to pay him more than he's not worth more. That's how it works
Besides the skills, Shohei Ohtani and Yamamoto are The Beatles of baseball, and this guy well, he’s the Mick Jagger. His appearance is not that attractive and already his attitude sucks, talking trash when he also represents Japanese baseball. For marketing purposes, it doesn’t have much.
29 comments
Astros fix pitchers. He will be fine
Dodger fan. I didnt like the Yamamoto signing. 2 years later. Iv changed my tune lol. Point is let's critique after the season and see what he does.
The biggest thing here is he had opt outs after every year and maybe some teams or all teams didn’t want to offer him that
Hideki Irabu 2.0
I feel like it’s gunna be like Roki sasaki’s rookie year for his first year ngl
Who projected 150 million?
So his fastball will become a sinker and his slider will become a sinker.
If Imai isn't on your team, you'll downplay him; if he is, you'd be ecstatic and hopeful. We don't know if he'll live up to the hype, but if he can be a #3 caliber pitcher (what $18M gets today), that's a win for the Astros.
I know you don't what you're talking about. Everyone knows Astros make all pitchers better. They been dping it for years
How the hell did yamamoto get a 235M year contract
Emerson Hancock disrespect will not be tolerated 😤
Can someone explain to me the slider to me? Is it not basically a two seam or Sinker?
今井はMLBのボールの方が投げやすいって言ってたね
Is the MLB stupid that Japanese threw 90 mph and no mlb player could hit him. If you guys have Japanese pitcher, there is still the falsely accused guy that play in Japan
Said he wanted to be in a team to compete against the dodgers and ended up signing with the astros, bro picked the wrong team
"My parents taught me to never take the easy path. Joining a team that wants to win right now and has a history of making pitchers better was the path they believed in for me."
Tatsuya Imai
3 years 60 million isnt bad at all.
Other countries should just make their baseball the same as USA… problem solved
Nobody was wrong. YOU were wrong 😳
Yankees should have gotten Imai.
I think Shohei getting a boatload of cash and the massive Yamamoto signing by the Dodgers really clouded what the norm for signing Japanese players is usually like. The MLB has seen more Japanese stars fail to live up to the hype than succeed. Thats why so many of them get "prove it" deals. When there is one or two on the market that's when you see the bidding increase the money and years, if there is multiple you get what Imai and Murakami got
Is armside on his slider not fire? sounds outlier to me
He's really happy to be an astro. He was at both the texans and rockets games
His career BB/9 is 4.4. WHIP of 1.266. Yes they have been reduced the last couple of years but those years also aren’t in the MLB. (ERA 3.15)
Romo Sasaki had a WHIP of 0.88 and a BB/9 of 2 for comparison and he struggled significantly this year. (ERA 2.10)
That’s okay …. This will only help the Astros continue their ownership of the Yanks !
sasaki is better
That’s some TRUE STAT DIVING😳
If no team is willing to pay him more than he's not worth more. That's how it works
Besides the skills, Shohei Ohtani and Yamamoto are The Beatles of baseball, and this guy well, he’s the Mick Jagger. His appearance is not that attractive and already his attitude sucks, talking trash when he also represents Japanese baseball. For marketing purposes, it doesn’t have much.