Professional baseball Lotte announced that Nobuhiko Matsunaka, the only triple crown in Heisei, will serve as a temporary coach at the spring camp scheduled to be held on Ishigaki Island in Okinawa next month.
Mr. Matsunaka is 47 years old from Kumamoto prefecture.
He joined the predecessor of Softbank, Daiei, and played an active role as a smasher.
He retired from active duty six years ago, and last year he was in charge of the independent league, Shikoku Island League plus Kagawa, as general manager and general manager until the middle of the season.
Mr. Matsunaka will serve as a temporary coach at Lotte's camp this time because of the intention of director Tadahito Iguchi, who joined Daiei at the same time, and will mainly teach batting from the 1st to the 12th of next month. It is supposed to do.
Mr. Matsunaka said, "I am grateful to have had such an opportunity to speak directly with Director Iguchi. I have the impression that there are many fielders who will carry the team in the future. I have come so far. I also want to convey various practice methods and techniques to young players, "he commented through the team.
In addition, Director Iguchi said, "I had the task of training long-distance batters, so I asked him to grow Lotte's batter. He has a lot of achievements and experience, so I want him to tell the players various things. I was expecting it.