Former big leaguer Tadahito Iguchi to retire after the NPB season.

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On the 20th, Lotte · Iguchi Toshihito Inomori (42), who is currently the oldest fielder, is scheduled to retire in active season only this season. Mr. Uchinohara joined Daiei (currently Softbank) in 1997 after passing the national academic year high school, Aoyama Gakuin Univ. He played an active part as a three-time rider. He moved to White Sox in the US major league in 2005 and enrolled in Phillies, Padres, Phillies until 2008. When I moved to Lotte in 2009, I contributed to Japan's top 10 in the next decade. In 2001, it achieved 2000 hits in Japan and the United States. The total record at the Japanese ball stadium is as of 20th, 1885 games, batting average, .271, 1749 hits, 250 home runs, 1010 batting points, 176 stealing bases. This season I have played in 35 games so far, with batting rate .257, 19 hits, 1 homerun and 8 RBIs left. One question with Iguchi is as follows- When you decided to retire "I was wanting you to work hard only last year when I signed for last year, and I thought that I would like to see more even in one game. A regrettably the team is in a tough situation, but with this as an explosive and the rest I want to do my best in the season."

Future goals- "I still have more than 70 games left so I'd like to try my best"

The memorable game is- "It is too early to look back, as I turn around, it's all over."

The reason for continuing baseball so far is- "I am not conscious of being the oldest age myself, because baseball loves more than people around me"

To fans- "I am playing in front of the wonderful fans, want to get out of my power, I would like the fans who have always supported me to see how they are wearing uniforms even in one game"

To teammates- "I had my uniforms removed in this season. It said that I will try my best to work towards the top and I will do my best trying to keep up with my strength and I am sorry I'm sorry I wanted to tell all the players before the interview"

For the rest of the season- "I want to make better memories than ever, I want to make a better memories than ever before, I want to look back slowly, I want to do a season without regrets, I want to aim at even one so that I can win well."

Why did you decide last year? "I was thinking for a couple of years that I was going to find my own retirement, I felt like a break as of last year."

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