Daisuke Miura, manager of professional baseball team DeNA, will continue to lead the team next season.
This was announced by DeNA's owner Tomoko Namba at a hotel in Tokyo after the final game of the season with Yakult on the 3rd.
Manager Miura went into this season with the "Yokohama counterattack" from the bottom of last season, placing Shugo Maki, who is in his second year, as fourth from the opening, and Daimu Ise, who is in his third year. In the early stages of the season, young relief pitchers such as Me no Irie Daisei pitched regardless of the score difference to gain experience and confidence, raising the level of the entire team.
In addition, based on data such as match results, they adopted a bold strategy, such as removing central players MIYAZAKI Toshiro and Soto from the starting line-up.
Then, he pushed the team to second place in the league and decided to advance to the Climax Series at home for the first time in three years and the fourth time.
Owner Namba said, "Although we couldn't win the championship, we made a big step forward from last year's bottom. He also did the minimum work of bringing the Climax Series to his home base. Both the team and the players are positive and bright. , I became stronger," he praised Miura's skill this season.
After that, "I'm still in the middle of the road, but I wanted to build the future of the BayStars together after seeing the team's management this season, so I was able to present a multi-year contract for the first time as DeNA." I made it clear that I requested it.
In response to this, Director Miura said, "I was not able to achieve my goal of winning the league, and there are regrets, and there are things left unfinished. Under such circumstances, I feel grateful and have a heavy responsibility to be able to take command again next year. I told the owner Namba, 'Thank you very much.