DeNA's pitcher Yasuaki Yamasaki, who has won the titles of the rookie king and the most saves twice in the professional baseball and Central League, will remain without exercising the rights of FA = free agent limited to domestic transfers acquired this season. It was decided.
This was announced by the team on the 7th, which means that pitcher Yamazaki will not exercise the FA rights limited to domestic transfers acquired in September and will remain.
Pitcher Yamazaki, who joined the team in the first place in the draft in 2015, was appointed as a rookie king from the first year and won the title with the most saves for the second consecutive year from 2018.
Last year, he was out of control in the middle of the season due to poor performance, but this season, his seventh year, he pitched mainly as a middleman and was selected as the representative of Japan for baseball, who won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
This season's record was 3 wins, 2 losses, 1 save, 27 holds, and an ERA of 3.27.