{"id":504805,"date":"2026-01-04T02:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504805\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:13:38","slug":"kona-takahashi-remaining-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/504805\/","title":{"rendered":"Kona Takahashi: Remaining in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765842735_11_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Takahashi will return to Japan for the 2026 season, Will Sammon of The Athletic reports.<\/p>\n<p>Takahashi was posted by the Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball in November, but after receiving minimal interest from MLB clubs during his 45-day posting window, he will officially remain overseas for at least another year. The 28-year-old righty finished 2025 with a 3.04 ERA and 1.23 WHIP but managed just 88 strikeouts while walking 41 batters over 148 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Takahashi will return to Japan for the 2026 season, Will Sammon of The Athletic reports. Takahashi was posted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,28,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-504805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-fantasy-baseball","10":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","11":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115834415339583803","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504805","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=504805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}