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Seibu's Hodaka Yamakawa, who won the home run king in professional baseball and Pacific League for the second consecutive year, renewed his contract for the next season with an estimated 100 million yen up to 210 million yen.

Yamakawa, a professional sixth-year player, mass-produced a home run at the beginning of the season with a spectacular swing.

Still, he won 43 home runs and won the home run king for the second year in a row, and contributed to the team's league win by marking 120 runs.

On the 5th, Mr. Yamakawa negotiated a contract renewal at the team office in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture.

At the conference, Yamakawa recalled that this season was “not at all. The batting average, the home run, and the batting point did not go as I had imagined. .

Then, for the next season, “I think that there will be a difference between the off-seasons, so I want to be able to raise my power more. "I want to go".

In addition, about the change from “3”, which has been assigned by successive hitters in Seibu, such as Kazuhiro Kiyohara, from the next season, “To Seibu's third is Yamakawa” I want to make it a number that I can get to know. "

On the other hand, Shugo Totozaki, who defended the second mainly during this season and marked both homeruns with 26 home runs and 90 RBIs, renewed his contract with an estimated annual salary of 140 million yen, double this season. did.