Veteran Toriya who retires from Hanshin Join Lotte on March 10 at 15:18
It has been announced that veteran Kei Toritani, who has left professional baseball and Hanshin last season, will join Lotte.
The 38-year-old Toritani, who celebrated his 16th professional career in Hanshin last year, was mainly appointed as a substitute, and was forced to retire from the baseball team at the end of August. Was shown.
Under such circumstances, it was decided to join Lotte, who is trying to rewind in the fourth place of the Pa League last year, and it was announced by the baseball team on the 10th.
With an estimated 16 million yen one-year contract, the number was decided to be "00" with the meaning of starting from zero.
Toritani commented through the team, "I am glad to be a member of the Marines. I am only grateful now. I will play as much as I can to contribute to the team's victory anyway."
Coach Shiritani Iguchi, who had been conducting independent training together with Toritani during the active era, said, "I think that he will pull young people and the amount of practice is the best among active duties. I want all Uchino to protect. I haven't participated, so I'm going to start with two troops to get a sense of the actual battle, and I'd like to consider when to put them into one troop. "
In addition, Naoki Matsumoto said that the decision to join the team at an unusual time in March was "The biggest reason I wanted to reinforce the infield while fighting camps, practice games, and open games. Yes. "
Toritani joined Hanshin in 2004 and achieved a total of 2,000 hits three years ago, marking a consecutive game appearance record of "1939", which is the second-place professional baseball until adult, but last year The batting average was 27.70 in 74 games.