{"id":504366,"date":"2026-01-03T19:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504366\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:25:10","slug":"reports-toronto-blue-jays-agree-to-deal-with-japanese-third-baseman-kazuma-okamoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504366\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports: Toronto Blue Jays agree to deal with Japanese third baseman Kazuma Okamoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays and Japanese free-agent third baseman Kazuma Okamoto have agreed to terms on a contract, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN and Sportsnet reported Saturday afternoon that the two sides agreed to a deal. There was no immediate word on the length of the contract or financial details.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Okamoto is a six-time all-star in Japan&#8217;s Nippon Professional Baseball league.<\/p>\n<p>He hit .327 with 15 homers and 51 RBIs in 77 games last season for the Yomiuri Giants.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old missed over half the season with an elbow injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays, who have not confirmed the signing, would have to pay a posting fee to the Japanese team once the deal is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Toronto Blue Jays and Japanese free-agent third baseman Kazuma Okamoto have agreed to terms on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,3685,2353,2352,70,3583],"class_list":{"0":"post-504366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kazuma-okamoto","10":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","11":"tag-npb","12":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","13":"tag-yomiuri-giants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115832810622204165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504366","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=504366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}