Hisanobu Watanabe, general manager of professional baseball pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, who has undergone surgery in July last year and continues to rehabilitate, has indicated that his return to the 1st army will not be in time for the opening.
40-year-old pitcher Matsuzaka returned to Seibu in the old nest last season for the first time in 14 years, but due to the influence of having undergone endoscopic surgery on the cervical spine in July, he will rise to the mound of the official game including the 2nd army. I have continued to rehabilitate.
Pitcher Matsuzaka returned from the United States where he was staying last month and is rehabilitating in Japan for the spring camp starting on the 1st of next month.
Regarding the condition of pitcher Matsuzaka, General Manager Watanabe said, "First of all, I want you to be rehabilitated and thrown. There is no idea from the opening," he said, saying that the return to the 1st army will not be in time for the opening of the season.
In light of the current situation in which the infection of the new coronavirus is spreading, he said that foreign athletes' participation in the camp was fluid and "I told the athletes to prepare well."