Coach Legend, who came to see manager Abe when he was young, gave up his number 10, a 32-year-old catcher with 5 years and 18.7 billion won

Dec 18, 2024

A catcher who moved from Softbank to Yomiuri. Five years to two billion yen. Photo capture = Sports Nippon Homepage

Abe visited Fukuoka to persuade Guy. He gave him the number 10 he used as a player. Photo capture =Miuri Giants SNS

He started with the uniform number '130' and inherited the catcher 'Legend' coach Shinnosuke Abe (45)'s '10' which he used as a player. Catcher Takuya (32), who was announced by the Yomiuri Giants on the 17th, started as a softbank Hawks player. He became a professional player with the sixth pick in the 2011 Fostering Draft and grew into a top catcher. After joining the team, he gained three years of experience and turned into an official player. He is a role model for players who have been trained.

That year, another position-playing player wore a Softbank uniform as a nurturing player. He is 32 years old and is playing in the Major League after playing for Softbank. He and Guy are in the same class as Yook Sung-draft. He joined the club with a fourth-place pick, faster than Guy. SoftBank ace Senga signed a 5-year-$75 million contract with New York Mets in December 2022.

Guy is from Kyushu, the home region of Softbank. He was born and raised in Oita Prefecture. After graduating from a high school in Oita, I joined the hometown team. Former coach Kudo Kimiyasu elevated him to the main catcher.

A catcher with strong shoulders and blocking ability. He had good pitching lead and batting performance. As a former nurturing player, he hit his first double-digit home run. From 2019 to 2021, he exceeded 10 home runs for three consecutive years. He represented Japan at the 2019 and 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) and the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. This year's annual salary is 210 million yen. I achieved my dream as a nurturing player.

Guy played in 1023 games, batting .223 with 62 home runs and 290 RBIs. He won the Golden Glove seven times and was named the Best Nine three times.

Next year, he will change his team at the not-so-distant age of 33. Softbank wanted to stay, but it shook off. It is unlikely that the conditions proposed by the father-son club Softbank were less than those of Yomiuri.

Yomiuri has Takumi Oshiro (31), the main catcher who was with the national team. This year, Yukinori Kishida (28) and Seiji Kobayashi (35) kept the Yomiuri main room. You have to adapt to the new team, and the number of games you play may decrease. He played in the Pacific League for 14 years. The stage changes to the Central League. You have to analyze and deal with unfamiliar players. The pressure is bound to be great. I took all this and chose the challenge.

Is he the Japanese catcher at two WBCs and the Tokyo Olympics??Sports Chosun DB

Yomiuri has not won the Japan Series since 2012. He is making all-out efforts to strengthen his power this winter to win next season. Photo capture =Miuri Giants SNS

I've been thinking about it for over a month.

Yomiuri and Abe led Guy. Catcher Abe is a legend Guy has longed for since childhood. A senior came all the way to Fukuoka earlier this month. I persuaded him to transfer to Yomiuri. I asked him to pull the team from the Yomiuri.

Guy says "Director Abe is a special person to me. When he was young, he became a catcher while watching the Yomiuri game broadcast and watching manager Abe. I was glad that such a person said something thank you." The sincerity and sincerity of the catcher-turned-senior shook his heart.

Abe gave away the number '10' that he wore when he was a player. In other words, he pointed to Guy, not from Yomiuri, as his successor.

Guy was able to get this far thanks to his SoftBank teammates. Being from Oita, I was happy and happy to play in my hometown team. As a baseball player, I chose to leave the team with a spirit of challenge to take a leap forward."

Yomiuri recruited an outside FA for the first time in four years this winter. He is making all-out efforts to win the Japan Series for the first time in 13 years next season. Photo capture =Miuri Giants SNS

I wanted to rise to the top of the Yomiuri Giants. Yomiuri is the most winning team that has won 22 Japan Series trophies. However, he has not won since reaching the top in 2012. In the meantime, he has advanced to the Japan Series three times, but has failed all of them. This year, even though it ranked first in the league in four years, it did not reach the Japan Series. This winter, Yomiuri signed an outside FA for the first time in four years. He is putting all his energy into winning his first championship in 13 years.

He made the transfer decision and delivered it to club president Sadaharu (Wang Jeong-gi) and manager Hiroki Kokubo. Chairman Sadaharu Oh is a Yomiuri legend who does not need an explanation. Coach Kokubo also has a deep relationship with Yomiuri. When he was in Daiei, the predecessor of Softbank, he traded to Yomiuri and played as the fourth batter. He even claimed it and returned to SoftBank.

Chairman Sadaharu Oh said, `I will support you because I made a choice without regret.' Let's say "Director, I'm sorry" and Kokubo "Don't apologize. He started out as a nurturing player and exercised his rights. "Stretch your chest proudly and go away..." he cheered.

Japanese media estimated that Guy signed a five-year-to-1.5 billion yen contract with Yomiuri. Some media outlets wrote