For the WBC = World Baseball Classic of baseball, he served as the head coach of the Japanese national team, who will be the first team of the Japanese national team coach Hideki Kuriyama who took office, and will be the head coach of the Japanese national team who will face the warm-up game in March next year. Mr. Kazuyuki Shirai has been appointed.
The Japan National Baseball Team is scheduled to play a warm-up game against Taiwan at Tokyo Dome in March next year for the WBC scheduled for the next year, and the newly appointed coach Hideki Kuriyama will take the lead for the first time.
On the 17th, NPB Enterprise, which operates a business related to the Japanese national team, announced the appointment of four coaches for the warm-up game.
Mr. Shirai, who served as a coach at Nippon-Ham from 2014 to 2017 and supported Director Kuriyama, was appointed as the head coach.
The pitcher coach is Masato Yoshii
Masato Yoshii, who played in major leagues and Mets as a pitcher coach and has served as a coach at Nippon Ham under Kuriyama, and Sadaaki Yoshimura, a giant who served as a strategy coach until this season, as a hitting coach. Following the Tokyo Olympics, which won the gold medal, Masaji Shimizu was appointed as an outfield defense and baseball coach.
Other coaches will be announced as soon as they are decided.