Masahiro Tanaka.

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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] Rakuten Golden Eagle's strong vote for Tanaka's new season was cut by 425 million yen, which was the second highest record in history. However, the US media questioned his remarks on victory and defeat, which also made the former Japanese senior reporter somewhat reflect.

"MLBTR" reporter Mark Polishuk, who specializes in sorting out major league news, wrote an article about Tanaka Masahiro's salary cuts, pointing out that although Tanaka Masahiro was not the ace level of the previous Japanese professional baseball, he pitched 318.2 innings in the past two seasons, and still has a defense rate 3.16 performance, although the strikeout rate has declined but still maintains precise ball control.

But despite handing over those numbers, Masahiro Tanaka focused on his 13-21 numbers.

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Mark Polishuk also pointed out that Masahiro Tanaka intends to focus on the 2023 Japanese professional season, explaining why there are no rumors of him planning to return to the major leagues during the offseason, but he believes that although he did not win enough games, Tanaka's pitching looks Still enough to make major league teams interested in him, especially considering how expensive many pitchers have been this offseason.

However, Mark Polishuk believes that the key point is whether Masahiro Tanaka is willing to return to the major leagues.

Mark Polishuk's article also made "China-Japan Sports" write an article pointing out that in recent years, major leagues have paid more attention to WHIP (on-base rate per nine innings), WAR (victory contribution value), FIP (pitcher independent defense) than pitchers' wins and losses in recent years. Rate) and other advanced data.

He also mentioned that although Jacob deGrom, who won the National League Cy Young Award in 2018, had only 10 wins and 9 losses in this season, he ranked first in WHIP0.92, WAR9.0 and FIP1.99. name.

Former Japan "NHK" reporter Morita Hiroyuki also pointed out that there was no report in Japan about Tanaka's big salary cut, but there was no question about the extent of the salary cut. Some players raised questions, and bluntly said that the focus of the article is very good.

Because Masahiro Tanaka's WHIP ranking of No. 2 in 2021 and No. 6 in 2022 is a good performance, the accusation of taking victory and defeat too seriously seems to be correct.

Morita Hiroyuki believes that there are many different opinions on Tanaka's contract, not only the interpretation of "MLBTR" is correct, but the meaning of raising questions is to give the audience a new perspective, so compared to the United States, he wants to be in the Japanese media. Read about these questions.

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