On the 16th, Softbank infielder Hotaka Yamakawa was removed from the player registration list. His batting average was a dismal .24. Last season, his first year after the transfer, he batted fourth in every game, but this season he has played more as seventh batter since mid-May, and was left out of the starting starting line-up for the first time in the game against Chunichi on June 5th. Since then, he has started on the bench more often, and in June he had a batting average of .167 with zero Home Run. In his last five games, he has struggled, with only one hit in 19 At Bat bats.
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