Kazuhisa Ishii, the manager of professional baseball Rakuten, will continue to serve as general manager next season, his second year in office, according to interviews with team officials.
Coach Ishii has been appointed as general manager from this season, with 66 wins, 62 losses and 15 draws in the regular season, the highest win rate since the season three years before Ishii became general manager. We entered the climax series for the first time in two years.
Rakuten was eliminated in the first stage of the climax series held until the 7th, but according to the team officials, Director Ishii has signed a multi-year contract, and it has been decided that he will continue to serve as general manager next season as well. It means that.
In this season's Rakuten, Masahiro Tanaka, who led the team to the first league victory and the best in Japan eight years ago, returned from the major league for the first time in eight years, but ended up with 4 wins and 9 losses, and the batting line is Asamura. Eito's home run fell below 20 for the first time in four years, and the two new foreign players were both sluggish, so the total score remained in 4th place in the league.
Even so, he fought tenaciously, centered on the relief team, which boasts the top ERA of 12 teams, and showed a waveless fight, such as being the only Pacific League player to have never lost since the opening.