{"id":125611,"date":"2025-11-26T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=125611"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T23:03:46","slug":"yankees-likely-to-pursue-27-year-old-phenom-tatsuya-imai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=125611","title":{"rendered":"Yankees likely to pursue 27-year old phenom Tatsuya Imai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Yankees likely to pursue 27-year old phenom Tatsuya Imai originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The New York Yankees will certainly be in the market for starting pitchers this offseason, with an overseas prodigy making waves as a potential target.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to Brendan Kuty of The Athletic, the Yankees will be aggressive in their pursuit of Japanese star Tatsuya Imai. Imai will be posted this offseason, and in eight seasons in Japan, Imai posted a 3.15 ERA with a 58-45 record.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he posted a 10-5 record with a 1.92 ERA, and 178 strikeouts in 163.1 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees will pursue him, but Kuty says they won\u2019t go above and beyond if his price range gets out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 27-year-old would represent an upgrade to just about any rotation, but particularly to the Yankees\u2019 group, which has so many questions heading into spring training. But don\u2019t be surprised if they end up going cheaper if the price ratchets up for the right-hander,\u201d Kuty said. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s too early to say how aggressive the Yankees will be with particular pitchers. They would be doing themselves a disservice by not monitoring everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>With injuries to Carlos Rodon, Clarke Schmidt, and Gerrit Cole affecting the start of the 2026 season, the Yankees will be aggressive, but smart in their pursuit of starting pitching depth, including however they go about negotiations with Imai.<\/p>\n<h2>More Yankees News:<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yankees are in the market for starting pitching help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":125612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4686,1235,1510,38,40,4685],"class_list":["post-125611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","tag-brendan-kuty","tag-carlos-rodon","tag-clarke-schmidt","tag-gerrit-cole","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-tatsuya-imai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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