Orix Naruse 6 and others outside force notification October 2 15:43
Professional baseball Orix told six people such as pitcher Yoshihisa Naruse who has won 96 wins that he will not sign a contract for next season.
Naruse is 33 years old in professional 16th year. In the Lotte era in 2007, he was the left-handed technologist who won the title with the highest defense rate and the highest win rate.
However, in Yakult who transferred to the group, he stayed only 6 wins, and he joined Orix at the invitation of Director Nishimura.
In addition to this, Orix has announced that the outfielder Yuki Miyazaki, the catcher Toshito Takagi, the pitcher Aoki Akiyama, and the pitcher Iwamoto Teruichi Tsukahara will not sign a contract for next season.
Among them, Miyazaki is 32 years old in professional 9th year. Ototoshi participated in 52 games with aggressive batting and marked his batting average of 20%.
However, the batting average was sluggish to 10% with 15 games played this season.
According to the team, pitcher Naruse and Miyazaki want to continue working.