Giant Shun Yamaguchi pitcher Contract with Major League player Blue Jays December 28 12:18
It turned out that pitcher Shun Yamaguchi, who had been aiming for a major league using the posting system from a professional baseball giant, signed a contract with Blue Jays.
This season, pitcher Yamaha won the most victory in the season with 15 wins and 4 losses with a giant, and also won the title with the most strikeouts and the highest win rate, demonstrating a major league challenge using the posting system off the season.
The deadline for negotiations between pitcher Yamaguchi and the Major League baseball team was until the 3rd of next month in Japan time, but some parties concerned have signed a contract with Blue Jays.
The US media reports that the deal will cost $ 6.35 million over two years, or about 690 million yen in Japanese yen.
Blue Jays belongs to the eastern part of the American League, and is in the same district as the Yankees played by pitcher Masahiro Tanaka and the Rays joined by Yoshitomo Tsutsuka.
This season's result was 67 wins and 95 losses, ending in fourth place in the eastern region, and raising the pitcher's power was an issue.
Contributing to title league victory in three pitchers
Pitcher Yamaguchi is 32 years old, a professional 14th year.
From Yanagaura High School in Oita Prefecture, I joined Yokohama at that time in the first round of high school drafts in 2006.
As a restraint, he marked more than 30 saves for two consecutive years from 2010, and gave a total of 100 saves in the youngest 25-year-old one month at the time.
In 2017, he transferred from DeNA to a giant with a free agent, and was expected to be part of the starting rotation. However, due to pain in his right shoulder, he won only 10 victories for two years until last season. .
In this season, the third year of the transfer, Tomoyuki Kanno, an ace pitcher, left the team again due to low back pain. He won the championship and won the title in three pitchers, including the most wins, and greatly contributed to the giant's first league title in five years.
Also, in the Tokyo Olympics premier battle "Premier 12" held in November, he was selected as the Japanese national team and started three games.