Professional baseball and Softbank have announced the departure of Valentin, who holds a record of 60 home runs in the season.
Valentin played for Yakult for nine years and hit a professional baseball record of 60 home runs in the 2013 season.
Last season, I transferred to Softbank with a two-year contract, but the batting average was in the 10% range for both years, and the number of home runs was only nine last year, and this time only four.
On the 5th of this month, the team had taken steps to announce Weber that the waiver of ownership of Valentin would be shown to other teams, but there was no team that wanted to acquire it, and on the 12th, it announced that it would leave as a free contract. ..
Valentin commented through the team, "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to play for the Hawks for two years. If you have the opportunity to play in Japan next year, please support me."