Professional baseball Hiroshima new director Sasaoka "I want to serve with full body spirit" October 7, 16:36

Shinji Sasaoka was appointed as the new manager of professional baseball and Hiroshima, and expressed his enthusiasm at the conference, "I want to take over the league championship, aiming to become Japan's best and with full spirit."

Hiroshima requested that Mr. Sasaoka, who had been a pitcher coach, on 4th of this month to take over as the succeeding director of Takashi Ogata, who resigned, and Mr. Sasaoka accepted it on the 5th.

Director Sasaoka held a meeting at the Mazda Stadium in Hiroshima City and said, “I am full of heart-throwing thoughts. I will reflect on my experience, recapture the league, and aim for the best in Japan with all my heart.” Said.

Regarding the team's issues, he said, “There were cases where the relief team was out of order due to breakdowns and was reversed.

After that, regarding team building in the future, “We will protect the baseball of the Carp where successive managers and director Ogata came, and will be based on pitcher-centered baseball. We all have the joy of winning and losing regret. I want a bench to share. "

The director from Hiroshima's pitcher was since Ryohei Hasegawa, who served until 1967.

According to the team, the contract with Director Sasaoka is one year. The team will start for the next season from the 9th overall practice.

About Sasaoka Shin

Shinji Sasaoka is 52 years old from Shimane Prefecture. In 1990, I joined Hiroshima as the first draft.

He won 17 titles in the second year of the professional, and won the title of the most wins and the best defense rate with a score of 2.44, and won the team's league championship with MVP = best player Contributed.

In 2003, he won 100 wins and 100 saves. In his 18 years of active life, he recorded 138 wins, 153 losses, and 106 saves.

After retiring from active duty at the end of the 2007 season and acting as a baseball critic, he was appointed as a pitcher coach of two troops off of 2014.

In the 2nd army, we focused on nurturing young pitchers, and in both cases, we nurtured pitchers such as Akitake Okada and Kazuki Hamada, who had won two digits, and sent them to the 1st Army one after another.

From this season, he became a pitcher coach for the 1st army, and found new young forces such as pitcher Hiroki Toda who returned from the left elbow surgery and pitcher Takeshi Endo in the second year, and won the team's defense rate in the league last season 4.12 Since then, this season has been significantly reduced to 3.68.