MLB Mets pitcher Shintaro Fujinami has been effectively released from the roster， having not made a major league appearance this season and having an ERA of 8．27 in 18 minor league games．
0001Nii Ni φ ★.Jul. 27, 2024 (Sat) 02:40:57.50ID:rFGtUCua9
On the 26th (27th Japan time), the Mets announced that pitcher Shintaro Fujinami (30) had been effectively released from their roster as a Designated Free Agent (DFA). Pitcher Kodai Senga (31), who has not made a single appearance in the majors this season, received the cold-blooded notice ahead of his first appearance of the season. After the end of the 2022 season, Fujinami decided to leave Hanshin and try his hand at the majors. In his first year in 2011, he played for the Athletics and Orioles, pitching in a total of 64 games with a record of 7 wins, 8 losses, 2 saves, and an ERA of 7.18. This season, he joined the Mets on a one-year contract with an annual salary of $3.35 million (approximately 500 million yen at the rate at the time the contract was announced) and a performance bonus of $850,000 (approximately 130 million yen). He was demoted to the minors just before the start of the season after failing to produce results in the exhibition games, and then was placed on the 60-day injured list (IL) due to a tight right shoulder, and has not yet pitched in the majors. In the minors this season, he has pitched in 18 games with a record of 1 win and 2 losses and an ERA of 8.27. He pitched 16 1/3 innings and walked 25 batters, showing signs of struggling with his control this season as well. His final appearance was on July 24th, when he pitched for the Triple-A Syracuse affiliate against the Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate Buffaloes. He had not allowed a run in three consecutive games, but he was in terrible form, pitching two-thirds of an inning, giving up no hits, four walks and two runs. Meanwhile, Senga left the camp midway through due to pain in his right shoulder and has been undergoing rehabilitation since then, but he will make his first appearance of the season in the home game against the Braves on the 26th (27th in Japan). Last season, his first year in the United States, he finished second in the Rookie of the Year voting with a record of 12 wins and 7 losses in 29 appearances and an ERA of 2.98. Hochi Shimbun.
>>12 The Athletics weren’t originally aiming to win, they bought players cheaply and sold them at a high price if they were successful. In that sense, Fujinami was a bargain for the Athletics.
It would be a problem if he continued to pitch with a strange form, so there would certainly be a scramble for him. If a team can decide whether to go back to pitching vertically, which was stable in Japan, or to pitch sideways like Chapman, which was stable in America, he will be an immediate asset. A great man who proved to the majors themselves that they have no training skills.
The Arihara scheme is in motion. The rich Kyushu Kappe baseball team will acquire him for about 600 million yen over three years. His mission will be to “kill every single one of the opposing team’s cleanup hitters with a dead ball lol.” The rich Kyushu Kappe baseball team is aiming to be the best team in the world, so they’ll probably use the power of money to do just that.
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