Gosuke Katoh of the Blue Jays, a major league baseball player, was demoted to a minor league baseball team on the 1st.
Kato, a 27-year-old from California, was promoted to the Major League Baseball for the first time in the Blue Jays in his 10th year as a professional player, and became the first Japanese player to enter the Major League Baseball without experiencing Japanese professional baseball. I did.
After that, in the Red Sox game on April 27, he made a presence such as hitting a two-base hit, which was the first hit in the major league, but from May 2, the number of players on the bench decreased by 2 to 26. The team announced that Kato would be demoted to the minor league after the match on the 1st.
This is the second time Kato has been demoted this season, and he has played in eight games in the major leagues so far, with one hit in seven at bats and a batting average of 10%, 4 minutes and 3 minutes, but an on-base percentage of 40%.
Kato will continue to be in the 40-player limit of the Major League Baseball contract, so if the team is injured or if he is active in a minor, he will aim to be promoted again.