{"id":498143,"date":"2025-12-29T22:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/498143\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T22:50:11","slug":"giants-predicted-to-sign-pitcher-fans-are-begging-for-despite-adrian-houser-addition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/498143\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants predicted to sign pitcher fans are begging for despite Adrian Houser addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\/news\/giants-predicted-sign-pitcher-fans-begging-adrian-houser\/35b70c6af5b867b42fbc7204?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Giants predicted to sign pitcher fans are begging for despite Adrian Houser addition;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Giants predicted to sign pitcher fans are begging for despite Adrian Houser addition<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Francisco Giants;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">San Francisco Giants<\/a> have already added to their rotation this offseason, but it\u2019s obvious they aren\u2019t finished yet.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Miller of Bleacher Report recently predicted that the Giants will be the team to land Japanese right-hander Tatsuya Imai, a pitcher who will have to make a decision by Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>While San Francisco signed Adrian Houser to provide innings and depth, there\u2019s still a clear need for an ace like Imai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe San Francisco Giants recently signed Adrian Houser, but they definitely still have an opening at No. 3 in their 2026 rotation as well as at No. 2 in their 2027 rotation once Robbie Ray&#8217;s contract expires. And ever since that quote about wanting to \u2018take down\u2019 the Dodgers rather than sign with them, San Francisco has felt like the heavy favorite,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25336868-real-reason-why-top-7-mlb-free-agents-remain-unsigned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he wrote;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants just make too much sense, especially after Imai\u2019s comments about wanting to beat the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Dodgers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Imai would be a long-term investment with the potential to be the ace with Logan Webb.<\/p>\n<p>As Miller mentioned, too, with Robbie Ray\u2019s deal finished after 2026, San Francisco has a clear future opening that Imai could eventually step into.<\/p>\n<p>More Giants News:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants predicted to sign pitcher fans are begging for despite Adrian Houser addition originally appeared on The Sporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2408],"tags":[11710,5,39,162,2601,112,4,1822,378,66,4343,4340,4344,4341,4342,4658],"class_list":{"0":"post-498143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-giants","8":"tag-adrian-houser","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-giants","12":"tag-kerry-miller","13":"tag-logan-webb","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-robbie-ray","16":"tag-san-francisco","17":"tag-san-francisco-giants","18":"tag-sanfrancisco","19":"tag-sanfranciscogiants","20":"tag-sf","21":"tag-sf-giants","22":"tag-sfgiants","23":"tag-tatsuya-imai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115805305147839875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}