Lotte Toru Hosokawa Retired from active duty 5 times in Japan only this season 16:44 on November 9th
Professional baseball Lotte announced that catcher Toru Hosokawa, who has experienced the best in Japan five times, will retire from active duty only this season.
40-year-old Hosokawa is from Aomori prefecture.
I joined Seibu from Aomori University and experienced the best in Japan five times in total at Softbank, which was transferred as a free agent with Seibu with a skillful lead.
He won the Best Nine Award and the Golden Glove Award twice.
He joined Lotte with a free contract with Rakuten, and played 31 games last season, but this season, his 19th year as a professional player, he was not promoted to the 1st army.
Hosokawa said, "When I joined the team, I didn't expect to be able to do it in the professional world for such a long time. The time was really fulfilling, "he commented through the team.