{"id":100999,"date":"2026-01-05T06:12:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kona-takahashi-japanese-pitcher-misses-mlb-opportunity-after-deadline-passes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T10:12:37","slug":"kona-takahashi-japanese-pitcher-misses-mlb-opportunity-after-deadline-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/mlb\/kona-takahashi-japanese-pitcher-misses-mlb-opportunity-after-deadline-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kona Takahashi: Japanese Pitcher Misses MLB Opportunity After Deadline Passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Japanese pitcher Kona Takahashi did not reach an agreement with a Major League team before his negotiation period expired on Sunday, and his rights remain with the Saitama Seibu Lions of the Pacific League.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander, who will turn 29 on February 3rd, had an 8-9 record with a 3.04 ERA last year with the Lions, striking out 88 and walking 41 in 148 innings. In 2024, his record was 0-11 with a 3.87 ERA, after compiling a 22-16 record in the previous two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Takahashi has a 73-77 record with a 3.39 ERA in 11 seasons with the Lions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2013 Japanese pitcher Kona Takahashi did not reach an agreement with a Major League team before his negotiation period expired on Sunday, and his rights remain with the Saitama Seibu Lions of the Pacific League. The right-hander, who will turn 29 on February 3rd, had an 8-9 record with a 3.04 ERA last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[10488,344,1214,11216],"class_list":{"0":"post-100999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-kona-takahashi","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-pitcher","11":"tag-saitama-lions"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}