{"id":640603,"date":"2026-03-24T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/640603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:22:42","slug":"giants-new-players-make-strong-first-impression-on-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/640603\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; new players make strong first impression on opening weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yomiuri Giants went on a shopping spree in the offseason to strengthen the team ahead of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2025\/03\/26\/baseball\/japanese-baseball\/2025-central-league-preview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central League title defense<\/a> and bolster its chances of winning the Japan Series for the first time since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s far too early to make any sweeping proclamations about the impact the new players will have on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/sports\/2025\/03\/28\/baseball\/japanese-baseball\/swallows-giants-season-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">season that began on Friday<\/a>, their first impressions on Giants fans could not have gone much better.<\/p>\n<p>Outfielder Trey Cabbage, catcher Takuya Kai and pitchers Tatsuya Ishikawa and Raidel Martinez all made their presence felt during the Giants\u2019 season-opening three-game sweep of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows over the weekend at Tokyo Dome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yomiuri Giants went on a shopping spree in the offseason to strengthen the team ahead of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352,3588,3692,81926,4081,3691,3583],"class_list":["post-640603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-npb","tag-baseball","tag-nippon-professional-baseball","tag-npb","tag-raidel-martinez","tag-takuya-kai","tag-tatsuya-ishikawa","tag-tokyo-yakult-swallows","tag-trey-cabbage","tag-yomiuri-giants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116284132118134286","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640603","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=640603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}