Kenji Jojima assumed office as a special adviser for SoftBank December 20, 16:57
Kenji Jojima, who was active in the professional baseball game Daiei and the Major League Baseball Mariners, has decided to return to the ball world for the first time in eight years and become a special adviser to Softbank.
Softbank announced that Mr. Jojima, who belonged for 11 years since the Daiei era, will take office as "Special Advisor with Team Chairman" next season, and held a press conference in Fukuoka City.
Mr. Jojima joined Daiei at that time in 1994 as the first draft, and won the league three times in 11 years until 2005, when he became a Softbank, and contributed to Japan's top two times. I played an active part as a catcher.
After that, he played for four years at Mariners as the first Japanese player in the Major League.
I played in Hanshin after returning to the Japanese baseball world, but I was retired from active duty in 2012 due to injury.
At the inaugural conference, Mr. Jojima said, “I was away from the baseball world for a while, but the chairman of the king baseball team told me to come back to the baseball world soon and decided to return to Hawks for the first time in 15 years.” .
The specific contents of the work were not decided, and “I learned everything from the baseball and my ideas of baseball to the chairman. I wanted to do everything for the team by the chairman.” “I want to lend my power” to the director Kudo.
Mr. Jojima will participate in the Miyazaki Camp in February next year in order to understand the team situation.
Chairman of the king team “New wind expectations for the team”
Mr. Jojima, the chairman of Softbank, who led the team as a manager during his active role, said, “It is a catcher that changed not only the experience in Hawks but also studying in the United States and knowing Japanese and American baseball. It ’s a legend, and I ’d like to tell Kudo, who is a pitcher, that he ’s a legend from the fielder and tells his current experience to the players. I would like you to be a big brother, a plus, and I'm really looking forward to bringing a new breeze to the team. "