{"id":844544,"date":"2026-11-03T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/844544\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:33:16","slug":"seibu-lions-kyazze-fred-and-carlos-tovar-will-not-be-signed-for-next-season-first-npb-players-from-uganda-and-slovenia-pacific-league-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/844544\/","title":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Kyazze Fred and Carlos Tovar will not be signed for next season; first NPB players from Uganda and Slovenia | Pacific League.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Seibu Lions] Kyazze Fred and Carlos Tovar will not be signed for next season; they were the first NPB players from Uganda and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    November 3, 2026 12:57 PM<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261103-OHT1I51159-L.jpg\" width=\"215\" height=\"292\" alt=\"Fred\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u30d5\u30ec\u30c3\u30c9\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">The Seibu Lions announced on the 3rd that they have notified developmental players Kyazze Fred (23), a pitcher from Uganda, and Carlos Tovar (23), an outfielder from Slovenia, that their contracts will not be renewed for the next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Both players participated in last year&#8217;s autumn camp as trainees and signed developmental player contracts for the 2026 season after the camp concluded. This season, they had been dispatched to the BC League&#8217;s Shinano Grandserows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">It was the first time for an NPB team to sign players from Slovenia and Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Kyazze Fred and Carlos Tovar will not be signed for next season; they were the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":["post-844544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-npb","tag-baseball","tag-nippon-professional-baseball","tag-npb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117551117604958081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844544","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=844544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}