Goto is 38 years old from Shizuoka prefecture.
In high school, he achieved a Spring / Summer succession at Yokohama High School with pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka who was a teammate, and then proceeded to Hosei University and joined Seibu with the free frame of 2002 draft.

With long hitting ability and strong batting, Seibu experienced league championship and Japan's first in 2008, then transferred to DeNA with an exchange trade off in Heisei 23.

DeNA mainly showed valuable work as a pinch hitter, but in the last season he played 26 games, this season has not participated in this one season so far this season on the team side It is that he has offered to retire.

In the 16-year professional total, he hit 312 hits with 617 games, batting rate 20.55, marked a home run 52, 184 RBIs.

Goto is "the most reason why I decided to retire that I can not make my own convinced batting, I think that it is that he did not feel frustrated," the team Commented through.

In addition, Shige Kaga who used the side throw to support the team mainly as a relay, also decided to retire from active service in this season.