{"id":502620,"date":"2026-01-02T12:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/502620\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T12:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T12:40:16","slug":"phillies-news-bryson-stott-spencer-howard-tatsuya-imai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/502620\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies News: Bryson Stott, Spencer Howard, Tatsuya Imai"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first day of 2026 is in the books. But now it\u2019s the first Friday of 2026. And soon, the first weekend of 2026. Enjoy it! But first, links.<\/p>\n

Spencer Howard, formerly a Phillie, and most recently a Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagle, has signed with the Yomiuri Giants<\/a>. If he could put in a good word about Philadelphia while in Tokyo, that would be much appreciated.<\/p>\n

Tatsuya Imai, formerly of the Saitama Seibu Lions, will be a Houston Astro<\/a> after reaching an unusual deal with opt outs after every year.<\/p>\n

Jarred Kelenic will be joining the White Sox organization on a minor league deal<\/a>. It\u2019s good news for Kelenic, good news for the Southsiders, and bad news for those of us who believe that Jared should be spelled with only one r.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first day of 2026 is in the books. But now it\u2019s the first Friday of 2026. And…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,16816,4216,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-502620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies-news","13":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","14":"tag-phillies"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115825556037825888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502620","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=502620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}