Professional baseball Rakuten Giants catch Takaya Tanaka by monetary trade September 29, 17:38
Professional baseball / Rakuten announced that it has acquired Takaya Tanaka from a giant in a monetary trade while catchers are being injured one after another.
Tanaka from Kyoto is 28 years old in his sixth year as a professional player.
It is a right-throwing left-handed catcher who joined the giant in the training draft 3rd place in 2015.
The 1st army has participated in 2 games so far, but the 2nd army has participated in 40 games this season with a batting average of 20%, 3 minutes and 4 RBIs, 4 home runs and 12 RBIs.
Tanaka's uniform number has been decided to be "55".
Rakuten is currently in 3rd place in the Pacific League, aiming for the climax series to win the championship for the first time in 7 years and advance to 2nd place, but in the catcher, Mitsuru Ota, who has participated in 67 games so far, is in the second year this month. In addition to the injury to his left shoulder in the Seibu match on the 26th, Yuichi Adachi, who is in his fifth year, is in a poor condition as he has been deregistered as a player in the 1st Army due to poor conditions.
Tanaka will hold a press conference on the 30th.