Yakult Rakuten leaves the catcher island for acquisition November 2 at 20:50
Interviews with officials revealed that professional baseball and Yakult will start to acquire the catcher Motohiro Shima, who is leaving Rakuten for this season only.
34-year-old Shima player played an active role as the main catcher, contributing to the team's first in the world six years ago, but this season was the least 57 in the professional 13 years due to hip injury and the rise of young players. I stayed.
Since Shima was presented with a significant reduction beyond the baseball agreement limit from the estimated annual salary of 100 million yen for Rakuten in the next season, Rakuten left the team only for this season in search of opportunities for participation, and to other teams Looking for transfer.
As for this Shima player, it was found through interviews with related parties that Yakult, who finished in the bottom in the SE League, started to win this season.
Negotiations will proceed after the 12th team joint tryout on the 12th of this month.
Yakult urgently needed to rebuild the pitcher team, whose team defense rate was 12 teams worst, and Nakamura Shinpei who participated in 126 games had undergone a cleaning operation on the right elbow last month, making the catcher player layer thicker I want to