{"id":35869,"date":"2019-12-28T20:11:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T20:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35869"},"modified":"2019-12-28T20:11:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T20:11:03","slug":"ryosuke-kikuchi-to-stay-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=35869","title":{"rendered":"Ryosuke Kikuchi To Stay In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Japanese infielder Ryosuke Kikuchi<\/a> won’t be coming to the majors in 2020. Kikuchi’s Nippon Professional Baseball team- the Hiroshima Carp- posted him<\/a> Dec. 3, which made him a chance to sign with a big league club through Jan. 2. But Kikuchi announced the coming week that he’ll remain in his homeland, according to Sanspo<\/a>( hat tip-off to Patrick Newman of NPB Tracke<\/a>r ). <\/p>\n

” The sell moved slowly, so I took the decision that it would be better to inform the team early that I would bide ,” Kikuchi said.” I was genuinely torn .” <\/p>\n

Kikuchi spent the previous eight years as a member of the Carp, with whom he developed a strong defensive reputation at second base. The soon-to-be 30 -year-old’s offense hasn’t quite been up to par, though, as evidenced by his. 271\/.315 \/. 391 line across 4,695 plateful looks in NPB.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Kikuchi, his lack of offensive prowess no doubt operated against him as he tried to find a major league deal. Moreover, it surely didn’t help Kikuchi’s make that he was an unproven commodity in a free-agent class of second basemen that’s loaded with familiar calls. Starlin Castro<\/a>, Brian Dozier<\/a>, Ben Zobrist<\/a>, Neil Walker<\/a>, Jason Kipnis<\/a>, Brock Holt<\/a>, Scooter Gennett<\/a>, Asdrubal Cabrera<\/a> and Wilmer Flores<\/a> are just some of the veteran second basemen<\/a> which remain without contracts as the brand-new year nears.<\/p>\n

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Read more: mlbtraderumors.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Japanese infielder Ryosuke Kikuchi won’t be coming to the majors in 2020. Kikuchi’s Nippon Professional Baseball team- the Hiroshima Carp- posted him Dec. 3, which made him a chance to sign with a big league club through Jan. 2. But Kikuchi announced the coming week that he’ll remain in his homeland, according to Sanspo( hat …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20507],"class_list":["post-35869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-ryosuke-kikuchi"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/USATSI_9963039-1024x7371577563863.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}