Hisanobu Watanabe, general manager of professional baseball Seibu, met with Shogo Akiyama, who left the 3A team under the Padres team on the 22nd, and announced that he had officially made an offer.
Regarding Akiyama, who returned to Japan with the aim of returning to the Japanese baseball world, Seibu and Hiroshima have indicated that they will acquire it, and Softbank is also interested in acquiring it.
On the afternoon of the 22nd, Seibu's general manager Watanabe announced in Chiba City that he had met Akiyama at a hotel in Tokyo on the 22nd and made an official offer.
General Manager Watanabe said, "Of course, as a force, I'm sure I'm the player I want, and I think I didn't get the results I expected when I went to the United States, but I want him to come back and do his best as a Lions player again. I talked to you. "
He said, "I don't know how it feels. I made a specific offer from here. Maybe I'll meet various teams in the future."