Professional baseball Hiroshima has announced that it will not sign a contract for next season with pitcher Takeru Imamura, who has been active mainly in relief and has contributed to the league's third straight victory since 2016.
Pitcher Imamura is 30 years old.
As the ace of Seiho High School in Nagasaki, he led the team to victory at the 2009 Senbatsu Tournament and joined Hiroshima in 1st place in the draft.
With a straight that exceeds 150 km at the fastest and a sharp slider, it has emerged mainly as a middle pitcher from the second year.
Since 2016, when the team won the championship for the third time in a row, it has contributed greatly to the team as a valuable relief of the winning pattern, with 67 games, 68 games, and 43 games.
However, the chances of pitching gradually decreased, and I haven't played in one army so far this season.
Pitcher Imamura has pitched in 431 games in the last 12 years, with 21 wins and 30 losses and 36 saves and 115 holds.
In addition, five people, including two training players, including pitcher Kyohei Nakamura, who pitched to the left in the 11th year and was 32 years old, who pitched in 43 games of adult career high, also announced that they would not sign a contract for next season. ..
For one of them, we are consulting a contract for training.
Imamura "I have no choice but to thank the fans."
Pitcher Imamura responded to the interview with tears in his eyes, saying, "I was prepared, but I don't really feel it. After the third straight victory, I was disappointed that I couldn't express the ball I wanted. I'm just grateful to the fans who supported me even at good times. "
On top of that, "I only remember that it was purely fun. The moment I won the Tokyo Dome in 2016 was the most memorable. The numbers I left were more than I had imagined before I became a pro. I think it's a number, "he said, looking back on his professional life in Hiroshima.
Pitcher Imamura says that the future is undecided.