According to an interview with the baseball team, Takeru Imamura, who played an active role mainly as a relief pitcher in professional baseball and Hiroshima and contributed to the third consecutive league title, decided to retire.
Pitcher Imamura is 30 years old in his 12th year as a professional.
When I was in the third year of Seiho High School in Nagasaki, I won the Senbatsu High School Baseball Championship for the first time in 2009, and the following year, I joined Carp in the first place in the draft.
Even professionals have been active mainly as a middleman from the second year, with a straight and sharp slider that exceeds 150 km at the fastest.
And, in 2017, he pitched in 68 games, which is the most in the league, and contributed greatly to the league's third consecutive victory from 2016.
However, the chances of pitching gradually decreased, and he did not participate in the 1st army this season, so he was notified in October that he was out of force.
According to the baseball team, pitcher Imamura visited the baseball team office on the 22nd and told him that he would retire from active duty and said, "I want to try a job other than baseball in the future."
Pitcher Imamura has pitched in 431 games in 12 years, with 21 wins and 30 losses and 36 saves and 115 holds.