The professional baseball giant has agreed to sign a contract for next season with pitcher Matt Andriese, who played in the Mariners and other major league baseball games.
Pitcher Andries is 32 years old from the United States.
It is a right pitcher with a characteristic of pitching that makes the best use of slowness and speed by interweaving change-ups and other changing balls with a fastball that is thrown down from a height of 1 meter 88 cm.
He made his major league debut in the raise in 2015, and since then he has been a starting pitcher and relief pitcher, and in 2020 he also played in the Angels to which Shohei Ohtani belongs.
This season, he pitched in 217 games in the Red Sox and Mariners, with 28 wins, 37 losses, 8 saves, 15 holds, and an earned run average of 4.63.
The annual salary is estimated to be 2 million dollars, which is a one-year contract of about 226 million yen in Japanese yen, and the number has been decided to be "29".
The giant, who missed his third consecutive league title this season, wants to strengthen his pitching team by acquiring Andries pitchers who can be widely used in starting pitchers and relief pitchers in preparation for the next season's comeback.
Through the team, Pitcher Andries commented, "I am very much looking forward to meeting my fans and teammates. I will do my best to win the team so that I can have a good season."