Masahiro Tanaka returns to Rakuten in 2021

Masahiro Tanaka (35, Rakuten Eagles), once an ace representing Japanese professional baseball, suffered the humiliation of having his salary cut short of his 200th career win in American and Japanese professional baseball.

Kyodo News reported on the 21st (Korean time) that Tanaka signed a one-year contract with his team, the Rakuten Eagles, for 260 million yen (about 2.35 billion won), a 45.3% reduction from the previous year’s salary.

Tanaka recorded an unprecedented 24 wins and no losses in the Japanese professional baseball season in the 2013 season and advanced to the American Major League. 메이저-토토사이트

Tanaka, who signed a 7-year, $155 million contract with the New York Yankees in 2014, received the highest salary in the posting system’s history at the time.

Tanaka’s posting amount was broken for the first time in 10 years when Yoshinobu Yamamoto recently signed a 12-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers worth $325 million (about 428.8 billion won).

Masahiro Tanaka during his time with the New York Yankees

Tanaka returned to Rakuten in 2021 after recording 78 wins, 46 losses, and an earned run average (ERA) of 3.74 over seven seasons in the major league.

However, after returning to Japan, Tanaka’s performance was not good.

In 2021, he went 4-9 with an ERA of 3.01, in 2022 he went 9-12 with an ERA of 3.31, and in 2023 he went 7-11 with an ERA of 4.91.

As his grades plummeted, his salary also decreased significantly.

Tanaka, who received 900 million yen in the 2021-2022 season, had his annual salary cut to 475 million yen in the 2023 season, and then cut in half again to 260 million yen in the 2024 season.

Last fall, I even underwent arthroscopic surgery to clean my right elbow.

However, Tanaka is burning his will to achieve his 200th win in the U.S. and Japan.

Tanaka, who has 119 wins and 67 losses over 10 seasons in Japan, has a total of 197 wins (113 losses) in the U.S. and Japan.

Tanaka showed his determination, saying, “I haven’t achieved results (since returning to Japan), but I still believe I can do well.”

Tanaka is accelerating his rehabilitation with the goal of joining the starting rotation early this season. 토토사이트