Professional baseball giant announced that 39-year-old veteran Yoshiyuki Kamei will retire from active duty only this season.
Kamei, who is in his 17th year as a professional player, joined the Giants in 2005 in the 4th draft from Chuo University.
With skillful batting and strong outfield defense, he has a strong presence in a team with a thick player base, and was selected as the representative of Japan at the WBC = World Baseball Classic held before the start of the fifth season. Although the opportunity to participate was limited, I became a winning member.
And in the season, he hit 25 home runs, the most of his own.
Ototoshi played an active role by reaching the batting average of 20%, 8 minutes and 4 squares for the third time, and the estimated annual salary exceeded the 100 million yen mark for the first time in the 15th year due to the renewal of the off contract.
This season, he hit a goodbye home run for the first time in the history of professional baseball in the opening game, but due to injuries, he only participated in 91 games, with a batting average of 20%, 1 minute, 6 home runs, 3 home runs, and 17 RBIs. bottom.
In total, he played 1412 games with 1069 hits, a batting average of 20%, 5 minutes, 7 home runs, 101 home runs, and 462 RBIs.
The team announced on the 21st that Kamei will retire from active duty only this season and will hold a press conference on the afternoon of the 21st.