He was given the number 20 formally worn by Chunichi aces Shigeru Sugishita, Hiroshi Gondoh, Senichi Hoshino and Tatsuo Komatsu [REF].
Following the draft, he took part in the IBAF 2014 21U Baseball World Cup pitching as a closer in 3 games without conceding but gave up 5 hits and 2 earned runs in the final against Taiwan [REF].