Lotte's tavern to Rakuten Rakuten Ono to Lotte FA compensation December 19 16:18

As compensation for the acquisition of professional baseball FA = free agent players, Lotte's Chifumi Sakai will move to Rakuten, and Rakuten's Ono pitcher will move to Lotte.

Off-season free agent, Lotte won Mima Gakugyo from Rakuten, Rakuten acquired Daichi Suzuki from Lotte, and as a compensation both teams received one player from other than 28 people protected by the other team Was supposed to be earned.

On the 19th, it was announced that Lotte's Sakai pitcher would transfer to Rakuten and Rakuten's Ono pitcher would move to Lotte.

The pitcher is 26 years old from Osaka Prefecture. In 2017, Osaka Gas joined Lotte in the second place in the draft, and in this season of the third year, he climbed 54 games with relief and marked 5 wins, 4 losses and 20 holds.

Ono is 23 years old from Fukuoka Prefecture. He joined Rakuten in 2nd draft in 2015 from the high school attached to West Japan Junior College, and made the most saves in the Eastern League of 2 troops for the second consecutive year since last season. Did.

Seven people transferred between Lotte and Rakuten

Off season, there was an active transfer of players between Lotte and Rakuten in the same Pacific League, and three Lotte players and four Rakuten players were replaced.

From Lotte to Rakuten,
▽ Daichi Suzuki is FA = free agent,
▽ Pitcher Hideaki Sakurai is a money trader.
▽ Pitcher Chifumi Sakai will transfer as compensation for the acquisition of players at FA.

On the other hand, from Rakuten to Lotte,
▽ Mima Manga pitcher is FA,
▽ In addition to the 5th year pitching by Ono pitcher as compensation for the acquisition of FA players,
▽ Relief Herman pitcher goes through free contract,
▽ Kenji Nishimaki, who was in his second year, was out of the strength of Rakuten and took the test to join Lotte.

Mr. Naoki Matsumoto, head of the Lotte team, said, “As a result of our strong reinforcement of Rakuten, it was a fierce development, but I think it ’s good for the professional baseball world. I ’ll continue to think about what ’s best for players. I want to do it positively. "