8:33 on March 10 to join Toriya Lotte from Hanshin
Veteran Kei Totani, a professional baseball player who left Hanshin last season, will join Lotte.
The 38-year-old Toritani last year, the 16th year of his professional career, continued to use mainly substitutes.
At the end of August, the team was asked to retire from active duty, indicating that he would leave Hanshin only last season and continue to be active in other teams.
Last season, he negotiated with Lotte, who missed the climax series in fourth place in the Pa League for three years, and was decided to join.
It will be announced on the 10th.
In addition to Lotte's aim to increase the infielder's player base, the team's coach Shihito Iguchi has a close relationship with Totani during the active era, including self-training with off-season players, and Toritani's attitude to tackle baseball I highly appreciated it.
Toritani from Tokyo joined Hanshin in 2004 from Waseda University in a free draft space and has won the Best Nine six times in short and the Golden Glove Award five times in short and third. did.
Three years ago, he achieved a total of 2,000 hits, the 50th player in professional baseball history, and marked the second consecutive professional baseball record of 1939, which was the second largest ever in professional baseball, but last year he played in 74 games. The batting average was 20%.