Japanese reliever Yoshinori Tateyama has signed a one-year contract with the Rangers that also includes team options for 2012 and 2013.
Unlike higher-profiles Japanese players such as Hisashi Iwakuma and Tsuyoshi Nishioka there was no “posting fee” required to negotiate with Tateyama, as he’s a 35-year-old veteran who was simply a free agent following 12 seasons in Japan.
A side-arming right-hander with a high-80s fastball, Tateyama had a 1.80 ERA, .212 opponents’ batting average, and 59 strikeouts in 55 innings this season and has a career ERA of 3.43, including a sub-4.00 mark in eight of the past nine years.
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- Rosenthals Speling Instrukter - Nov 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM
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He pitched for the Fighters, not Ham Fighters.
It is the Nippon (aka Japan) Ham…..then Fighters.
Us Nippon Pro Baseball nazi’s are the most strict.
