It has been decided that pitcher Yasuhiro Ogawa, who exercised the rights of FA = free agent only in Japan in professional baseball and Yakult, will remain in the team.
Pitcher Ogawa, 30 years old, won the team's top 10 wins this season and exercised the rights of the domestic free agent he acquired on the 4th of this month.
Yakult announced on the 25th that it was decided to remain after having negotiated multiple times for remaining after pitcher Ogawa declared FA.
Ogawa joined Yakult in 2013 in 2nd place in the draft, winning 16 wins in the first year and winning the most with the rookie king, and also won double digits in the third year.
This season, the eighth year, he won the double-digit victory for the first time in five years, including achieving the 82nd no-hitter no-run in the history of professional baseball in the match against DeNA in August.
When Pitcher Ogawa declared FA, he said, "Whether it remains or not, I want to be convinced and connect it to my baseball life from next year onward. In order to play baseball to the fullest, worrying now is one of my assets." I was commenting through the team.
At Yakult, Tetsuto Yamada, the main player, and Taichi Ishiyama, the closer, decided to remain without exercising the FA rights they had acquired, and the trend was drawing attention to this off, including pitcher Ogawa3. All the people will remain on the team.