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The Milwaukee Brewers announced Friday the signing of Elvin Rodríguez to a one-year deal with a club option for 2026 after he pitched in Japan last season. The 26-year-old right-hander went 1-1 with a 1.

Elvin Rodriguez has signed a one-year deal with the Milwaukee Brewers with a club option for 2026 after pitching in Japan last season

The Milwaukee Brewers announced the signing of Elvin Rodriguez to a one-year deal with a club option for 2026.

The Milwaukee Brewers have signed right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez for a one-year deal with a club option for 2026.

MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Brewers have signed right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodríguez to a one-year contract with a club option for 2026. To make room on the 40-man roster, right-handed pitcher JB Bukauskas was designated for assignment.

On April 10, 2022, he threw the sixteenth perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball history ... who hit 56 home runs for the Yakult Swallows in 2022, the most ever for a Japanese-born player ...

Slugging corner infielder Munetaka Murakami plans to make the jump from Japan to Major League Baseball in 2026, he announced in December, via Yahoo Japan. The 2025 season will be his last in Japan, as long as his team, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, complies, prompting what will be a mad frenzy to sign him when (or if) he is posted next offseason.

FanSided's Noah Wright believes one option for the Mets to fill Alonso's vacant first base position is 24-year-old Japanese star Munetaka Murakami, who was a member of Team Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic championship squad that took down Alonso and Team USA.

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Nippon Ham Fighters manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo heads to a meeting of managers of the 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Ham Fighters ...

The Phillies have been trying to get into the Japanese baseball market for years. They hope Koyo Aoyagi is the first step. The Phils on Friday night announced that Aoyagi will attend Spring Training in Clearwater,