Professional baseball / Rakuten announced on Monday that Mr. Kazuhisa Ishii (44) who was active in Yakult and the major league dodgers as a starting pitcher will take office as General Manager (GM) on September 1. Rakuten's organization department suddenly died in January although Senichi Hoshino and former vice president were substantial top. With the inauguration of the new GM, we hurried to rebuild the team that will sink to the bottom of the Pacific League.
Mr. Ishii was the first draft in the fall of 1991 and entered Yakult from Chiba · Tokyo school building Urayasu. Twice as many strikes as the left arm of a real faction twice, the best defense rate and the highest winning percentage each shot once. He moved to the Dodgers in 2002 and played four seasons in the major league. 182 victories in Japan and the United States. After retiring as an exponent, he is also engaged in player management.