Nippon-Ham renews development contract with Suguru Fukuda: “I’m surprised he signed me again…”
Baseball King
2025.11.25(火) 22:42
On the 25th, Nippon-Ham announced that they had signed a development player contract with pitcher Suguru Fukuda. number will be ‘140’.
Fukuda commented through the team, “I’m surprised that they’ve signed me again, and I’m happy to be able to baseball on the professional baseball stage once again. I want to live up to the need they have for me, and I think that producing results will be the best way to repay them. I’ll train hard this off-season to prepare to perform at my best from February 1st next year, and to build up my physique so that I can compete for a whole year.”
Suguru Fukuda joined Nippon-Ham as the seventh pick in the 2018 draft, and in 2022 he pitched in 13 games with ERA 0.87, and in 2023 he pitched in 29 games with ERA of 0.00, including 29 consecutive runs pitch from the start of the season. In 2024 he only pitched in two games, and this season he has not pitched in the first team, but has pitched in 17 games in the farm team with ERA of 1.80.
AloJapan.com