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The Saitama Seibu Lions announced that five players are officially senryokugai and will not be offered contracts for the 2019 season. They are Ryohei Fujiwara, Takuya Toyoda, Yusuke Tamamura, Ryo Sakata and Kentaro Fukukura.
All five players fell out of favor with only Toyoda playing an ichi-gun game in the 2018 season. Among the crop, Sakata has the best chance of making another roster in NPB as a pinch hitter.
EDIT: Sakata has announced retirement from NPB.
Tamamura is the youngest of the group being 23 years old and being the only one failing to play an ichi-gun game in his career.
The 2018 NPB Draft is on October 25 and with five players gone, it appears that the Lions will draft five players at minimum later this month. The Lions already released Neil Wagner earlier this year and the 70-man roster currently stands at 63.
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