This is what Nishioka made clear on the Internet 's SNS "Instagram" that he has established.

Among them, Nishioka clarified that he received a notice from the team on the 1st, and said, "I will do my best as one goal to step on the soil of Koshien as a professional baseball player next year," I am keeping a desire to continue.

Nishioka was a 34-year-old from Osaka Prefecture who contributed to Los Angeles two times in Lotte as an innovator with race, attack, and defense trio, and in the year 2010 he is the top hitter It shined.

After that, after joining the Twins of the Major League, I joined Hanshin off the year of Heisei 24.

Although he played 122 games in the first year as a main player, he was suffering from repeated injuries such as a tearing of the Achilles tendon of the left foot afterwards. In the sixth year of Hanshin in this season the opportunities to participate have decreased with the emergence of young people, so far the batting average has remained at 10% 3 2 with 23 games participation.

In the Instagram, Nishioka said, "I am sorry for the continuation of injuries.When I returned from injury, the cheers of goose bumps were impressive.The Hanshin fans were very warm and kind "I commented.