{"id":504072,"date":"2026-01-03T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504072\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T14:58:12","slug":"did-the-phillies-miss-out-on-tatsuya-imai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504072\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the Phillies miss out on Tatsuya Imai?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In something of a surprise move, the Astros added Tatsuya Imai to their rotation on a three year deal that includes a lot of opt-outs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A lot of these incentives are interesting in that they kind of indicate that maybe a lot of teams aren\u2019t really sure he\u2019ll translate to being a starter in MLB. Otherwise, those different levels wouldn\u2019t be so low ($1 million to throw 80 innings?). It\u2019s reasonable contract that will reward both player and team if he is able to make the transition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Did the Phillies miss the boat by not trying to match this deal? Paying $18 million a year if you really only see him as a reliever would have to mean he is a lockdown reliever in the Josh Hader-type mold, something maybe the Phillies weren\u2019t really comfortable doing. The risk is real. However, if they had trusted in their pitching development enough to think they could make him into a starter, then they would likely have made the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In something of a surprise move, the Astros added Tatsuya Imai to their rotation on a three year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504073,"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-504072","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\/115831760780016179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504072","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=504072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}