Yakult transfer island "serious regular" enthusiasm December 4 18:26
Catcher Shimamoto Hiroshi who left professional baseball / Rakuten and transferred to Yakult held an introductory conference, and expressed his enthusiasm, "I really want to grab regulars."
34-year-old Shima joined Rakuten in 2007 and has been a regular catcher since the first year, and was active as a lively catcher, contributing to the team's first in Japan six years ago. However, this season was the least 57 matches in the 13 years of the pro, with lost opportunities for lower back injuries and young players.
For this reason, I decided to leave Rakuten for the opportunity to participate and join Yakult who wanted to strengthen my battery. The annual salary is estimated at 50 million yen, and the turn number is “45”.
Shima said at the inaugural conference held in Tokyo on the 4th, “I don't have a chance this season, and now I'm hungry for baseball, so I want to express it on the ground. “I want to play thinking about what the team can do to win,” he said.
The team is also expecting to be a coach of young players, but pitcher Okugawa Toshinobu, who joined in the first place in the draft, is aiming to be a pitcher Masaru Tanaka who formed a battery in the Rakuten era. I was able to grow up, but it would be nice if I was able to give advice or that I was practicing this kind of practice.