MLB Rumors: Tomoyuki Sugano of the Yomiuri Giants is on the Texas Rangers radar, per Jeff Passan, who writes this morning that the Rangers, the Boston Red Sox, the Toronto Blue Jays and the San Diego Padres are “[a]mong the teams that have shown interest” in the 31 year old righthanded pitcher. Sugano, who posted second this year in the balloting for the Sawamura Award (the NPB equivalent to the Cy Young), had a 1.97 ERA in 2020 for the Giants.
Sugano has spent his entire career with Yomiuri, and has a career 2.