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Shota Imanaga
B/T L/L · 5' 10" · 175 lb · born Kitakyushu, Japan · age 33 · played P 32 · MLB debut 2024-04-01
706 batters faced scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Shota Imanaga, a 33-year-old lefty from Kitakyushu, Japan, struck out 12 across his last 2 MLB starts in September — the kind of miss rate that has defined a career with 455 strikeouts in 84 games.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $22.0M
- Guaranteed
- $22.0M
- Term
- 1 yr
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary | $22.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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The Bureau on Shota Imanaga
The scouting press, in their own words
Marlins fall to the Cubs 6-1. Shota Imanaga kept Miami’s bats silent. 71-71. 20 games left in the season.
Umpire favor
-2.0 net runs over 27 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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