Hanshin Tigers' Kimoto Tomonori announces his retirement for the season only

It became the driving force of the Hanshin Tigers winning the league in 2003, and also contributed to the victory in 2005Kimoto ChimonPlayers announced their retirement as long as this season.

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Tomonari Kimoto (44), 12th (Wednesday), accepted the intention of retiring in this season for the team and was accepted.

Kanemoto is from Hiroshima born in 1968. From Hiroshima High School to Tohoku Welfare University, he worked with Masahiro Sasaki and others. Participated in the 1991 draft after Hiroshima Carp was nominated 4th. In 1994, the third year of joining, he played 90 games and batting rate .268, 17 home runs. It reached the prescribed batist for the first time in 1995 and it is established as regular. On July 10, 1998, I returned from a miss on a dead ball, and a continuous game appearance (1766 games) continuing from here until April 2011 begins. Also, from July 21, 1999 to April 2010, we have recorded continuous full innings (1492 matches).

Batting rate in 2000. 315, 30 home runs, 30 stealing basesTriple threeAchieved. It was the seventh record in history, and it was the achievement of hitting the 30th home run in the final match of the season.

By exercising FA right off the 2002 season, I moved to the Hanshin Tigers and contributed to the League championship for the first time in 18 years in Hanshin. In 2005, he also contributed greatly to the victory again with a huge success with .327, 40 homeruns, 125 RBIs.

After that, I continued to be active, but there were scenes where the back home from the left became painful after I hurt my right shoulder, and I saw many people going to receive a relay to Torideya to protect the shorts deeply.

While the batting record of the team was sluggish overall this season, home runs have kept the highest batting average with fewer teams. Nakamura GM invited Nakamura Katsuhiro GM newly and the team that is sluggish invites GM, and since GM of Nakamura advocates "defensive baseball"Residue is also the basic policy for the next termAlthough it is, it was seen that it will be a form concentrating on pinch hits.

Kanemoto decided to retire at the interview today and it was about the day before yesterday about the reason, "Although there are various reasons, I thought" it is a limit or not "to myself. Although I was injured and I could not make a perfect defense, even though my fans and commentators gave me complaints because my participation continued, "Although I have thought that I worked hard, I have been miserable for the past three years, It was a feeling that there might be such a painful life. "

In addition, although it is well-known record of successive game appearance and continuous full inning, in addition to this, the 4th preliminary contest in 880 games from April 2004 to April 2010, from May 2000 to 2001 9 In the month 1002 batting succession without harmless strikes, both have kept the Japanese record.

By the way, Yuki Kokubo of Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, Takuro Ishii of Hiroshima Carp, etc revealed to retire in this season, so I wonder if they will enter the team as a coach after the end of the season, will be commentators, other roads Would you care about future movements?

2012/09/12 21:16
The contents of the interview was posted on the official website.

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