The professional baseball giant announced that it has acquired Takayuki Kajitani from DeNA, who exercised the rights of FA = free agent only in Japan.
Kajitani has been negotiating with the giants to allow DeNA to remain after exercising their rights, exercising FA rights only domestically from DeNA.
And on the 11th, the giant announced that Kajitani had decided to join the team.
The 32-year-old Kajitani won the title of the stealing king six years ago, and in this season, which is the 14th year, he mainly hit the first and participated in 109 games, with a batting average of 30%, 2 minutes and 3 minutes. The 140 hits were second in the league and 19 home runs.
In total, he has a batting average of 20%, 6 minutes, 9 home runs, 119 home runs, and 149 stolen bases in 895 games.
Kajitani will hold a press conference after officially signing a contract on the 14th of this month.
The giant is also expected to acquire Shoichi Inoh, who exercised domestic FA rights from the same DeNA.