Team victory is the most important thing The annual salary of 10 billion won will be completed without the ERA of 4 points and the coach who drew the sword will go without a fixed closure

Jun 11, 2025

Team victory is the most important thing The annual salary of 10 billion won will be completed without the ERA of 4 points and the coach who drew the sword will go without a fixed closure
Osuina threw as the main finalist of SoftBank from 2023. Coach Kokubo said he would go without completing the starting lineup for the time being. Photo capture = Softbank Hawks SNS



Team victory is the most important thing The annual salary of 10 billion won will be completed without the ERA of 4 points and the coach who drew the sword will go without a fixed closure
Osuna has been sluggish since signing a four-year contract last year. Osuna gave up a tiebreaking two-run home run in the ninth inning 2-0 against Yakult on the 6th. Photo capture = Softbank Hawks SNS
Team victory is the most important thing The annual salary of 10 billion won will be completed without the ERA of 4 points and the coach who drew the sword will go without a fixed closure
Sugiyama, who handled three batters with a mistake and made a save in the ninth inning against Yomiuri on the 10th. Photo capture = Softbank Hawks SNS
The closing pitcher, who receives an annual salary of 1 billion yen (about 9.4 billion won), has an ERA of '4." Softbank Hawks, which have been troubled by poor back doors, have finally chosen to change. Coach Hiroki Kokubo drew a sword between the Central League and the Inter League (exchange match). Roberto Osuna (30), a Mexican and former save king of the Major League Baseball, was finished.

Softbank is doing well in the interleague, which began on the 3rd. It starts with a winning rate of 50% and continues its upward trend. He won four games (two losses) in six games last week. He swept three consecutive games against the Chunichi Dragons and finished the three consecutive games against the Yakult Swallows with one win and two losses.

The game against the Yomiuri Giants on the 10th, the first day of three consecutive games during the week. In the home game held at the Fukuoka Paypay Dome, he won the game in the eighth inning. He scored three points in a 2-2 tie. The centerline blew fire. With the bases loaded with one out, No. 2 Kenta Imamiya, No. 3 Tatsuru Yanagimachi, and No. 4 Kondo Kenske hit three consecutive timely hits. He was scoreless in the second and seventh innings with the bases loaded, but he drove in a scary way.




Leading 5-2 in the top of the ninth. With the save situation, the closing pitcher's time has come. However, Kazuki Sugiyama (28) took the mound, not Osuna, the main closer. Sugiyama handled three batters in a row and kept the win. He made his second save of the season with six pitches.

Coach Kokubo said in an interview after the game that "Osuna is out of the finish for now. The finalization of the replacement has not yet been decided. Today, Sugiyama went out depending on the situation." He explains that he will wrap it up while looking at the situation for the time being.

Team victory is the most important thing.




Osuna blew a victory over Yakult on the 6th. He took the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning with a 2-0 lead and allowed a 2-2 tie. Yusuke Nakamura, the lead-off hitter, was named
Team victory is the most important thing The annual salary of 10 billion won will be completed without the ERA of 4 points and the coach who drew the sword will go without a fixed closure
Softbank is aiming to win the Pacific League for the second consecutive year. He started the interleague with a winning rate of 50% and is on a good track. Photo capture = Softbank Hawks SNS
Late walked and hit a two-run homer off No. 3 Jose Osuna. Starting pitcher Livan Moinello's eight scoreless innings went up in smoke. Softbank suffered a walk-off loss in the 10th inning.

Osuna went 3-1-8 with five saves and a 4.09 ERA in 22 games this season. deserve a failing grade as a finisher. Last year, the first year of the four-year contract, was also bad. In 39 games, he signed a contract of four years to four billion yen and an annual salary of one billion yen. At that time, it was the highest annual salary in Japanese professional baseball.

Osuna made his major league debut with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2015. He played in 66 games and made 38 saves in 2019 when he was a member of the Houston Astros. In that year, he ranked first in saves in the American League. He had 155 saves in total until 2020.




Osuna joined Chiba Lotte Marines in June 2022 and achieved overwhelming results. In 29 appearances, he signed a contract with Softbank for 650 million yen with 4 wins, 1 loss, 10 saves, 9 holds, and an ERA of 0.91. In the first year of the transfer, he succeeded in signing a four-year contract by recording 3 wins, 2 losses, 26 saves and 12 holds-0.92. After a long-term contract, there will be a slump. From the perspective of SoftBank's leadership, it is frustrating.

Team victory is the most important thing The annual salary of 10 billion won will be completed without the ERA of 4 points and the coach who drew the sword will go without a fixed closure
Softbank is on the rise, recording 5 wins and 2 losses in the interleague. Photo capture = Softbank Hawks SNS
There is a player who contrasts sharply with Osuna. Domingo Martinez, who moved from Chunichi to the Yomiuri Giants last winter. Cuban right-hander Martinez had 1 win, 2 holds 21 saves - a '0' ERA in 25 games. He continues his performance worth 1.2 billion yen (about 11.3 billion won) per year.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.