From the 31st, players who have acquired FA = free agent rights in professional baseball can declare their rights.

Of these, SoftBank's ace pitcher Kodai Senga, who has acquired the rights to overseas FA this season and has indicated his intention to challenge the major leagues, will be closely watched.

NPB = According to the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, 109 players have free agent rights, and 24 players have newly acquired FA rights limited to Japan this year. is 19 people.



Of these, SoftBank's ace Kodai Senga, who acquired the rights to overseas FA this season, has already declared that he will exercise his rights.

Pitcher Senga, who has long expressed his desire to challenge the major leagues, has an ERA of 1.94 this season with an ERA of 11 wins and 6 losses. will be



In addition, in the domestic FA, Seibu's heavy hitting catcher, Yuya Mori, who won the title of the top hitter in 2019, and Rakuten's main axis, Hideto Asamura, who newly acquired FA rights including overseas, and Japan Ham's Kensuke Kondo and Hanshin's Yuki Nishi, who ranks second in the ERA league, have not clarified whether they will exercise their rights, and are attracting attention.



On the other hand, Hanshin pitcher Yu Iwasaki, who has pitched in more than 40 games for six consecutive years until this season, decided to exercise his rights and remain, and Hiroshima's Ryoma Nishikawa and others did not exercise their rights. I am making it clear that I will stay.



FA can be declared until November 9th, and declared players can negotiate with each team, including their affiliated team, from the 11th.