Rougnet O'Dore, a new foreign player for the Professional Baseball Giants, will leave the team before the start of the season without accepting the team's instructions to adjust to the second team.
O'Door is a 30-year-old left-handed batter from Venezuela who has hit a total of 178 home runs in the major leagues, and the Giants were planning to use him as an outfielder.
However, he played in 12 games in exhibition games, and in 35 at-bats, had six hits and nine strikeouts, resulting in a batting average of .176, no home runs, and no RBIs.
According to the team, on the 24th, after the opening game, manager Shinnosuke Abe told O'Dore to remove him from the team for the opening game and adjust with the second team, but the team said that he asked him to leave the team, saying it was ``unacceptable.'' is.
The team continued discussions, but announced on the 26th that they had accepted his departure, making this an unusual situation in which a new foreign player would leave the team before the start of the season.
Yoshiaki Yoshimura, head of the organization headquarters, said, ``He wasn't showing his true potential even in the open game, so I was there to explain the adjustments in the second army, and we talked today as well, but my feelings haven't changed.At the contract stage, There is no guarantee that he will be used in the first team for a year.''