Director Yakult Ogawa to resign as far as this season due to poor performance September 8th 12:10
Interviews with officials revealed that professional baseball and Yakult coach Yoji Ogawa took responsibility for the poor performance of the team that slumped to the bottom of the league, and told the team that they wanted to retire only this season.
Yakult coach Ogawa last season lost 96 teams of the worst team in the previous year and re-established the team that was sunk to the bottom of the league and pushed it up to 2nd place.
This season, Murakami Murakami, a 19-year-old player, was selected as the starting member of the opening round and appointed as the central axis, aiming to win the league for the first time in four years while nurturing young players.
However, the main players withdrew one after another due to injuries and continued to slump to the bottom from May to June, including 16 consecutive losses on the league record.
Under such circumstances, Director Ogawa decided to take responsibility for poor performance and decided to retire only for this season.
Director Ogawa is 62 years old from Chiba Prefecture. In the middle of the 2010 season, he was appointed as the head coach from the head coach.
After that, he was in charge of strengthening the team as the head of the formation department, but returned to the manager from last season, and this was the final year of the two-year contract.
In addition, Shinya Miyamoto head coach told the team that he wanted to leave this season only.