Free agent first baseman Justin Bour has reached an agreement with the
Hanshin Tigers of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, Tigers GM Osamu
Tanimoto tells the Japan Times. Bour had been outrighted by the Angels at
season’s end and elected free agency.
The 31-year-old Bour signed a one-year, $2.5MM deal with the Halos last
winter but turned in a career-worst .172/.259/.364 batting line in his short
time with the organization. He continued to display above-average walk
tendencies (10 percent in 2019; 11.2 percent career) and also showed
above-average power (.192 ISO), but Bour’s 30.6 percent strikeout rate this
past season was far and away the highest of his career. Ultimately, he played
in just 52 games as an Angel and tallied 170 plate appearances.
Bour will head to Japan as a career .253/.337/.457 hitter with 92 home runs,
71 doubles and a pair of triples in 1950 Major League plate appearance —
most of which came with the Marlins. He’s never handled left-handed
pitching particularly well (.215/.302/.324), but he owns a stout
.262/.345/.490 career batting line against right-handed pitching.
簡略翻譯：
前天使一壘手正式跟日職阪神虎達成協議，
不過還沒有公布合約細節，
由於他去年只繳出.175/.264/.321的成績，
三振率又高達30.6%，所以整季只出賽52場，
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