{"id":523569,"date":"2026-01-16T14:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/523569\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:50:23","slug":"cubs-new-signing-turned-down-goldman-sachs-offer-to-sign-with-chicago-from-japan-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/523569\/","title":{"rendered":"Cubs new signing turned down Goldman Sachs offer to sign with Chicago from Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\/news\/cubs-new-signing-turned-down-goldman-sachs-offer-sign-chicago-japan\/8b8af16a881e8d1c9031784a?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cubs new signing turned down Goldman Sachs offer to sign with Chicago from Japan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cubs new signing turned down Goldman Sachs offer to sign with Chicago from Japan<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Preferred Source by clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/chicago-cubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chicago Cubs;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chicago Cubs<\/a>&#8216; newest signing could&#8217;ve gone to work at Goldman Sachs.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he&#8217;s going to pursue his MLB dream.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Kotaro Tsunematsu, who signed a minor league deal with the Cubs, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jacobzanolla\/status\/2012036689305260257\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Jacob Zanolla;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Jacob Zanolla<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunematsu played his college baseball in Japan but was not selected in the NPB Draft.<\/p>\n<p>He could&#8217;ve chosen the financial career route, but at least for now, he&#8217;s sticking with the diamond.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zanolla, Tsunematsu was born in New York but played his amateur baseball in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/tampa-bay-rays\/news\/air-force-captain-pitch-team-usa-2026-world-baseball-classic\/3ff3399d883e7f0101480c43\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:An Air Force Captain will pitch for Team USA at the World Baseball Classic;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">An Air Force Captain will pitch for Team USA at the World Baseball Classic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fascinating path and one that likely has a few more twists and turns in it than are known right now.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the opening of this season&#8217;s international signing window, which is why this news has come out now.<\/p>\n<p>Tsunematsu is a right-handed hitter with some pop. The Cubs clearly saw enough ability to give him a shot, but it&#8217;ll be fascinating to see what his developmental plan might look like.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cubs new signing turned down Goldman Sachs offer to sign with Chicago from Japan originally appeared on The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[5,138,24,4245,161,69523,69525,69524,11037,4,2352,69526],"class_list":{"0":"post-523569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-cubs","11":"tag-chicagocubs","12":"tag-cubs","13":"tag-goldman-sachs","14":"tag-jacob-zanolla","15":"tag-kotaro-tsunematsu","16":"tag-minor-league-deal","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-npb","19":"tag-tsunematsu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115905339306383849","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523569","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=523569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}