Pitcher Chihiro Kaneko of the Nippon-Ham Baseball League has been deviated from the plan for next season's strength and has become a free contract.
Pitcher Kaneko has indicated his intention to continue playing.
Pitcher Kaneko is 38 years old in his 18th year as a professional, and in 2014 when he belonged to Orix, he won a number of titles such as winning the Sawamura Award with a record of 16 wins and 5 losses and an ERA of 1.98, and has 130 wins in total. I am marking.
After transferring to Nippon-Ham, pitcher Kaneko marked 8 wins in his first year in 2019, but after that he could not settle in the 1st army, and his four-year record at Nippon-Ham was 10 wins and 16 losses. was.
He has only pitched in three games this season and is out of the plan for next season's strength and has been made a freelancer.
Pitcher Kaneko said through the team, "I'm sorry that I couldn't get the results I wanted in four years. I will never forget the warm and passionate cheering at the Sapporo Dome."
Atsunori Inaba, Nippon-Ham's general manager, said, "We evaluated pitcher Kaneko's attitude, skills, and knowledge about baseball, and asked him to become a coach. I decided to take the form of "commenting.