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FA declaration period starts Last year, 3 people exercised → 1 person transferred… Whereabouts of Seibu Mori, Nippon-Ham Kondo, etc. | Full-Count

Seibu/Tonozaki and Hiroshima/Nishikawa have already announced their intention to remain.

The 7th round of the “SMBC Japan Series 2022” was held at Jingu Stadium on the 30th, and Orix won 5-4 against Yakult, achieving Japan’s number one for the first time in 26 years. After the postseason, the period for exercising FA rights will start on the 31st. Attention is focused on the trends of Seibu’s Yuya Mori catcher and Nippon-Ham’s Kensuke Kondo outfielder.

Eligible players have seven days from the 31st, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays, to declare whether they wish to exercise their FA rights. Last year, Chunichi’s pitcher Katsuki Matayoshi, Seibu’s catcher Masatoshi Okada, and overseas FA’s DeNA Yamato infielder exercised their domestic FA rights, and Matayoshi was the only one who chose to transfer and joined Softbank. .

According to the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB), there are 44 domestic FAs and 65 overseas FAs who qualify this year. Hiroshima outfielder Shunsuke Noma and outfielder Ryoma Nishikawa both announced their intention to remain. Infielder Shuta Tonozaki of Seibu also announced a comment on the 22nd, saying, “I have decided to remain with the Lions.” Hanshin pitcher Yu Iwasaki also commented, “The fans, including the team, said, ‘I want you to stay in the Tigers,’ and they needed it.”

Among the players whose decisions have not been announced yet, Seibu no Mori, who was the leading hitter in 2019, Nippon-Ham’s Kondo, Lotte infielder Shogo Nakamura, catcher Tatsuhiro Tamura, Hanshin pitcher Yuta Iwasada, and Yuki Nishi. Their names are mentioned. Regarding overseas FA rights, pitcher Kodai Senga of Softbank has already declared that he will exercise it. It will be a period to search for a team to win a major challenge.

The FA front was sluggish, with only one transfer last season. What kind of movement will you show off now?

(Full-Count editorial department)

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