Yoshihisa Hirano, who had been a free agent from the Major League Baseball Mariners, is expected to return to the professional baseball game Orix in the old nest for the first time in four years.
Pitcher Hirano is 36 years old from Kyoto prefecture.
From 2006 to 12 years, he played an active part as a middleman and a suppressor at Orix, won the title of the best middleman in 2011, and in 2014 he made the most saves with 40 saves, which was the record of the Pacific League at that time. It was.
And since 2018, he has played for three seasons in the Major League Baseball Diamondbacks and Mariners, marking a total of 164 saves in Japan and the United States.
Pitcher Hirano had returned to Japan as a free agent after the end of last season, but after negotiating with Orix of the old nest, he generally agreed to return for the first time in four years.
Orix has a policy of turning pitcher Dickson, who was the starting pitcher last season, to the starting pitcher, and if the pitcher who holds the pitcher is not solidified and pitcher Hirano returns, it is expected that the relief team of the task will be strengthened.