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Fantasy News
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Fujinami will start once a week on Saturday's to open the season, Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Previous reports indicated that Fujinami would start every six days, meaning they could use a five-man rotation in weeks when they have an off day. The decision to lock Fujinami into a once-a-week role to ease his transition from Japan means the Athletics may be forced to turn to six starters on a regular basis, though the team has yet to clarify its full plans. Assuming he does indeed exclusively pitch on Saturday's, Fujinami's first three outings will be home against the Angels, away against the Rays and home against the Mets.... See More ... See Less
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Athletics' Shintaro Fujinami: Will start every sixth day
Fujinami will start every sixth day this season for the Athletics, Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle reports. That's the schedule Fujinami is used to from his time in Japan and the A's want to keep it that way, at least for now. Some early-season off days will allow the club to go with five starters for a while, but eventually it will have to use a six-man rotation and/or a spot starter in order to incorporate the plan for Fujinami.... See More ... See Less -
Athletics' Shintaro Fujinami: Mixed bag in three spring starts
Fujinami has allowed five earned runs on six hits and eight walks while recording 13 strikeouts across eight innings in his first three Cactus League starts. The former NPB star has seen some of his career-long control issues surface in fairly prominent fashion early in his MLB career, but he's also done a nice job closing out his fair share of hitters. Fujinami actually allowed just one earned run across five innings in his first two exhibitions before getting touched up for four runs over three frames by the Rockies in his most recent turn Monday, an outing in which he also rang up seven strikeouts. Fujinami worked up to 70 pitches against Colorado, and although he got only 40 of those offerings into the strike zone, Martin Gallegos of MLB.com reports the right-hander's fastball hit 99 mph and his slider served as the putaway pitch on five of his seven Ks.... See More ... See Less -
Athletics' Shintaro Fujinami: Lands in Oakland
Fujinami agreed Wednesday with the Athletics on a one-year contract, Jeff Passan of ESPN.com reports. According to Passan, the 28-year-old right-hander is expected to slot into the Oakland rotation while he makes the jump to MLB after spending the past 10 seasons in his native Japan with Nippon Professional Baseball's Hanshin Tigers. Fujinami stands at imposing 6-foot-6 and sports an upper-90s fastball that can touch the triple digits, but he didn't dominate against NPB competition to the extent his skill set might suggest. While moving between the rotation and bullpen in 2022 for Hanshin, he turned in a 3.38 ERA and struck out 23.6 percent of the batters he faced. He was able to trim his walk rate to a palatable 7.5 percent after often struggling with his control in his prior seasons with Japan, but the move to MLB could make it difficult to maintain that improvement while he faces higher-caliber hitters.... See More ... See Less
Recent Tweets
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara1D agoShintaro Fujinami did not allow a hit in six innings today. Assuming he's done, his final Cactus League numbers: 18 2/3 IP, 7 H, 17 BB, 20 K
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara1D agoFujinami has innings this spring where his command just seems to vanish. He retired nine of his first 10 hitters today. Then walked four batters in the fourth inning and uncorked two wild pitches. The Brewers still don't have a hit against him through four.
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara1D agoShintaro Fujinami will pitch once a week, on Saturdays, to begin his first MLB season, plus other A's rotation news: https://t.co/n8CBzXrvO0
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara1D agoAdam Oller was scheduled to pitch after Fujinami today but experienced vertigo symptoms yesterday and will not pitch, Mark Kotsay said. No further update on Oller.
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara1D agoShintaro Fujinami will start Saturday in the second game of the opening series and the initial plan is for him to start once a week on Saturdays, Mark Kotsay said.
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara5D agoThe A’s plan to have Shintaro Fujinami pitch every sixth day, Mark Kotsay said. They have some early off-days that could allow for opening with five starters but at some point will need to adjust with a six-man, spot-starter, etc.
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara7D agoFujinami faced 18 batters and gave up one hit, a double by Patrick Mazeika, the last man he faced. He walked five, struck out four and worked into the fifth inning, which Mark Kotsay said was the hope for today.
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Matt Kawahara@matthewkawahara7D agoShintaro Fujinami has struck out four, walked four and allowed no hits through three innings. He walked the bases loaded with no outs in the third and got out of it allowing one run on a Freddie Freeman sacrifice fly.