Rakuten pitcher Shoma Fujihira attended contract negotiations at Rakuten Mobile Park Miyagi on the 1st and signed a contract for an annual salary of 80 million yen, an increase of 40 million yen (all amounts are estimates). Early this season, he was sometimes removed from the winning pattern he had been assigned to until last season, but from the middle of the season onwards, he took over as closer and pitched in a career-high 62 games. He has a record of 2 wins and 2 losses, 12 hold, 21 holds, and ERA 2.11, and is currently on a 29-game shutout runs, breaking a new team record. He was selected for Samurai Japan for the second consecutive year and pitched in a friendly match against the South Korean national team on November 15th. Expectations are high that he will be selected for the Japanese national team for the World Baseball Classic, which begins in March next year.
Recently, Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani announced that he will be participating in next year's WBC. There is a possibility that they could become teammates, but Fujihira said he has a "request." "If we could just talk, I'd like to get an autograph. I'd like to talk about baseball, but the most important thing is an autograph to display in my house. I can brag for the rest of my life that I have Shohei Ohtani's autograph in my house." He expressed his desire to get an autograph before they could even start talking about baseball. Will his wish come true?
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