Nippon-Ham Hiromi Ito pitcher (28) of the Japan Professional Baseball League vowed on March 17 to play as well as Japanese major leaguers in the WBC to be held in March next year. Dodgers Ohtani has already announced his participation and Yamamoto and Sugano have also unofficially confirmed their participation. I want to show that I am not limited to MLB players. The Sawamura Award-winning right-hander was a member of the 23rd World Championship team and will likely be a member of this year's squad as well, showing his determination to show the world the high level of Japanese baseball as the best in the NPB . pitcher

On this day, he participated in a talk show in Hakodate, Hokkaido, together with Kanemura. His first child was born this month. He was present at the birth and said, "I was deeply moved. I have to do even more." He has been selected as the opening pitcher for the opening game of next season on March 27th (against Softbank Hawks and Mizuho PayPay). He declared, "I'll pitch shutout game," and thrilled the 340 fans in attendance. (Kawakami Haruki)