The Saitama Seibu Lions have decided on their manager going forward, according to a report by Sponichi, Fumiya Nishiguchi will be offered to take over for the 2025 season.
Nishiguchi, who will turn 52 later this week, was a long time Lions pitcher for two decades. Most recently, he's been on the Lions coaching staff since 2017.
In 2022, he began as the Lions farm manager and served in this position for the last three seasons. He held various pitching coach jobs from 2017-2021 at both the ni-gun and ichi-gun levels.
In his playing days, he's remembered as a pitcher who came up just short of a no-hitter and perfect game in three different instances. In two of those times, he was one out away from a no-hitter.
If he accepts, Nishiguchi will take over an uphill battle where the Lions are coming off a historically awful season with a poor offense and last place finish in the Pacific League.
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