What is Tanaka doing now?
Tanaka issued an innocuous and bland statement indicating he would be pitching for the Rakuten Golden Eagles in the Nippon Professional Baseball League. “I have decided to return to Japan and play for the Rakuten Eagles for the 2021 season,” Tanaka wrote on Twitter.
How much does Tanaka get paid?
22 million USD (2015)
Masahiro Tanaka/Salary
How much does Tanaka pay in Japan?
TOKYO (AP) — Masahiro Tanaka is back in Japan and says he can’t wait to get started pitching for his former Japanese team — the Rakuten Golden Eagles. The former New York Yankees pitcher signed a two-year contract earlier this week with his old Japanese club for a reported $9 million this season.
Is Tanaka still a Yankee pitcher?
Tanaka spent the previous seven years pitching for the Yankees. Late last March, with Florida spring training suspended and the 2020 season delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tanaka and his family left the United States for Japan over safety concerns related to an event that Tanaka acknowledged but did not detail.
Why did Tanaka go back to Japan?
Yankees legend Masahiro Tanaka appears to suggest he moved back to Japan to protect his family from racism in the US. Former Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka appeared to tell a Japanese newspaper that his family suffered from racism in the U.S. Tanaka and his family left the U.S. to play in Japan for two years.
Is Tanaka still a Yankee?
Why did Tanaka leave Yankees?
Former Yankees righty Masahiro Tanaka left the USA for safety reasons. This should deal a significant blow to the hypothesis that Tanaka might return midseason if the Yankees need rotation fortifying.
Why did Tanaka go to Japan?
But according to Insider.com, Tanaka wasn’t just escaping the pandemic. In April of 2020, Tanaka tweeted that during training camp, he and his family had returned to Japan after “there was an event that made me feel danger other than the new coronavirus infection, and I decided to return home.”