Professional baseball Softbank won the title with the most wins at Nippon-Ham in 2019 and acquired pitcher Kohei Arihara, who was playing in the major leagues until last year, according to an interview with a team official. .
Pitcher Arihara joined Nippon-Ham in 1st place in the draft from Waseda University, won 8 wins in 2015, his first year as a professional, and won the Pacific League Rookie of the Year, and won 15 wins in 2019, the most. won the winning title.
In the 2021 season, he transferred to the Rangers of the major leagues, but due to the effects of surgery on his right shoulder, he was a free contract with a record of 3 wins and 7 losses in the two years until last year, and Softbank acquired it. I found out by interviewing the people involved in the team.
SoftBank's ace pitcher Kodai Senga, who had won double-digit wins for seven years in a row, will go to the major leagues, and it has become an issue to improve the starting pitchers to win the league championship for the first time in three years. However, he succeeded in recruiting a pitcher with a track record of 60 wins in the six years he was in the Japanese baseball world.