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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] Wladimir Balentien, who had a career in the Japanese 301, retired from the Japanese professional earlier this year and is currently playing in the Dominican Winter League.

He is expected to represent the Netherlands in next year's World Baseball Classic as the final dance of his career.

The 38-year-old Ballentine signed with the Major League Mariners in 2000. In 2007, he entered the major league stage and played for the Mariners and the Reds. In 2011, he moved to the Japanese professional baseball Yakult Swallows. Ballentine not only won three In 2013, he surpassed Wang Zhenzhi's 55 hits in a single season with 60 hits in a single season, becoming a new record for home runs in a single season for Japanese professionals.

Ballentine played for Yakult for 9 years and accumulated 288 homers.

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Ballentin qualified as a Japanese domestic free agent in 2019. After the season, he moved to Softbank and signed a 2-year contract of about 1 billion yen. Boom, he left the team in September last year, and announced his retirement from Japan in January this year.

In total, Ballentine played in Japan for 11 years, accumulating 301 homers and 794 RBIs, with an average batting average of 0.266.

After leaving Japan, Ballentin moved to the Mexican League and the Dominican League this year.

Now he will participate in next year's classic, and he will officially retire after the classic, ending his 22-year baseball career.

In next year's classic game, the Netherlands and Taiwan, Cuba, Italy and Panama are in Group A, which also means that Ballentin is expected to come to Taiwan again.

Ballentin has represented the Netherlands in the 2013 and 2017 Classics in the past.

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