The first selection will be held on February 28th and 29th… To participate in the official race in 2025
Maruhan Co., Ltd., which operates a general entertainment business centered on pachinko, has announced that it will launch the “Maruhan Kitanihon Company Baseball Club” based in Sendai this spring. Former Yakult player Shohei Tateyama was appointed as the first manager. In his comments about his appointment, Tateyama, who spent 17 years as a professional player dealing with injuries, expressed his desire to give back to the baseball world what he learned from that experience.
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Maruhan, who has helped to enliven the baseball world by supporting youth baseball and junior high school baseball, will now launch a baseball club. The first large-scale player selection event was held on February 28th and 29th at Urayasu Sports Park Baseball Stadium in Chiba, kicking things off in earnest. In 2025, they plan to participate in official games, aiming to participate in the Intercity Baseball and Amateur Baseball Japan Championships.
Players on the baseball team are hired as contract employees at a Maruhan store near the team’s home base, with the aim of balancing work and baseball. The company also plans to create a system to promote employees to full-time positions after they retire.
Commenting on his selection, Tateyama, who will become the first manager, said, “I feel honored to have been appointed as the first manager of a new team for a large company called Maruhan Kitanihon Company. “This is a first for us. We will work hard and sincerely, thinking about the future of the Japanese baseball world that we have nurtured,” he said, expressing his gratitude and enthusiasm. Furthermore, while looking back on his active days when he was prone to injuries, he continued to passionately think about “improving the quality of training.”
“What I think is most strongly needed in the baseball world today is to improve the quality of training.Including my 17-year professional baseball career, I had 10 surgeries, but after retiring and becoming an amateur. Looking at the baseball world as a whole, I believe there is still room for improvement in building the body to avoid injuries and the quality of practice.
At Maruhan, he hopes to combine his own “thoughts and ideas” with “the use of cutting-edge technology” to help the players grow in their knowledge and skills. He also gave specific goals, stating that in 2027, two years after participating in the official competition, he aims to be “top 4 in the city competition or Japan championship” and in 2029, “win any tournament.”
I hope that the baseball team members I will meet from now on will grow as members of society. “I will work hard and sincerely to achieve a balance between work and baseball, to prove that retired players can play an active role as members of society, and to liven up my home base of Sendai,” Tateyama said. . A new challenge begins for the right arm, who has made a comeback after numerous surgeries.
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2024-02-16 11:06:23
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