Yakult announces retirement of Terahara's retirement on September 17 at 15:16
Professional baseball Yakult announced that the 35-year-old pitcher Hayato Terahara will retire from the current season.
Pitcher Terahara participated in the summer Koshien at Miyazaki Nichinan Gakuen in 2001, marked 154 km, the fastest at that time, and joined the Daiei of Softbank's predecessor in the first round of the draft the following year.
After that, he returned to Softbank through Yokohama and Orix, the predecessors of DeNA. From this season, he played with Yakult, and scored 2 wins and 1 loss with a 4-game climb, with a defense rate of 6.19. In total, he climbed to 303 games and saved 73 wins, 81 losses, 23 saves, and a defense rate of 3.88.
Pitcher Terahara said, “In 18 years of professional baseball life, Swallows was a short period of one year, but I was grateful to Swallows for giving me the chance to have been playing baseball for a long time. There is no comment, ”commented through the team.
It was also announced that 35-year-old Uchino fielder and Masayoshi Miwa will retire from this season only.