{"id":505492,"date":"2026-01-04T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/505492\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:08:13","slug":"watch-newest-astros-starter-tatsuya-imai-attends-texans-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/505492\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Newest Astros starter Tatsuya Imai attends Texans’ game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tatsuya Imai must become engulfed in the Houston culture after signing a three-year deal with the Houston Astros.<\/p>\n

On his to-do list? Attending a Houston Texans<\/a> game was a priority.<\/p>\n

Imai, the star Japanese right-handed pitcher who recently joined the Astros, was greeted by an uproar of applause from the Texans crowd at Sunday’s matchup against the Indianapolis Colts<\/a>. Between the first and second quarter, Imai was seen sitting in the suite of owner Jim Crane, alongside agent Scott Boras.<\/p>\n

Considered the next great arm from the NPB league, Imai had a standout 2025 season for the Seibu Lions, posting a 10-5 record with a 1.92 ERA and 178 strikeouts to 45 walks in 163\u2154 innings. Known for having a five-pitch arsenal, including a “vulcan curve,” Imai should be one of the key pieces in the Astros’ rotation behind Cy Young finalist Hunter Brown.<\/p>\n

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In eight seasons with Seibu, Imai went 58-45 with a 3.15 ERA, with 907 strikeouts in 963\u2154 innings. He was a three-time All-Star and lowered his ERA every season.<\/p>\n

The Texans lead 13-10 over the Colts with nine minutes remaining in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Texans Wire: WATCH: Newest Astros starter Tatsuya Imai attends Texans’ game<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tatsuya Imai must become engulfed in the Houston culture after signing a three-year deal with the Houston Astros.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[42,5,139,54,17249,3211,1328,17250,4,810,3944,4658],"class_list":["post-505492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstonastros","tag-hunter-brown","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-mlb","tag-scott-boras","tag-seibu-lions","tag-tatsuya-imai"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115838642117651440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505492","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=505492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}