Professional baseball Yakult contributed to the league victory and announced that it has acquired pitcher Kioni Kera, who has pitched 243 games in the major leagues, as a candidate to replace McGuff, who left the off-season.
Kera is 29 years old from the United States.
He is a right-handed pitcher with a height of 1.85 cm.
He has a straight line speed of about 160km and a sharp curve.
He has a 3.33 ERA.
Of those, he made 24 saves for the Rangers in the 2018 season.
He has a one-year contract and an estimated annual salary of 132 million yen plus piecework.
His jersey number has been decided as "11".
Yakult has been enrolled for four years until this season, and pitcher McGuff, who contributed to the league title as a suppressor, has left the team.
Masayuki Okumura, manager of the international group, said, "I want him to throw as soon as possible as a substitute for McGuff. If he competes well with Japanese players, it will have a good effect."
In addition, the team will have left-handed pitcher Dillon Peters, who is from the United States and has pitched in a total of 59 major league games, and Lynel Espinal, a right-handed pitcher from the Dominican Republic who has also played in the major leagues. has been awarded as a starting candidate.