Takahiro Norimoto is not coming to North America this year. He'd qualified for international free agency after being with the Eagles since 2013 and was looking to move to MLB. I heard that there was at least one team that showed some interest but apparently they couldn't come to terms. Instead, Norimoto will join the Yomiuri Giants and be reunited with a former teammate, Masahiro Tanaka. He was the Eagles' closer the past two years, replacing Yuki Matsui when Matsui left for the Padres, but the Giants will have him returning to a starting role.
Here's a Bushiroad DreamOrder card of Norimoto that was a giveaway at the Eagles game I went to in Sendai in 2024. It appears to be a promo card that does not have an equivalent card in any of the DreamOrder sets.
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