Professional baseball Yakult Saito and Kawada coaches leave the group November 11th 19:35
Yakult pitcher Takashi Saito and Yusuke Kawada outfield defensive baseball coach, who finished last in the Central League for the second consecutive year, will be leaving the team.
On the 10th, Yakult finished all the dates of the season, finishing at the bottom for the second consecutive year with 41 wins, 69 losses and 10 draws.
On the 11th, the baseball team announced that pitcher Saito, who was in his first year in office, and coach Kawada, who had been an outfield defensive baseball coach for three years, will leave the team.
Coach Saito left a track record in both starting and relief, with 112 wins and 139 saves in Japan and the United States during his active career, and was entrusted with rebuilding the pitchers by coach Shingo Takatsu, who took command from this season. The rate was 4.61 and could not be improved to the worst of 12 teams for two consecutive years.
Coach Saito said, "I was told that I would be back next year, but I felt responsible and told the baseball team that I would like them to leave the team. The result is the whole world. There are parts that are far more difficult than I imagine. It was a
very learning year. "
In addition, it has been announced that it will not sign a contract for next season with 32-year-old Tsuyoshi Ueda, 32-year-old Ryota Fujii, and 30-year-old Shotaro Tashiro.