Baseball: Hanshin Tigers manager, owner both step down

Tomoaki Kanemoto is leaving his role as Hanshin Tigers manager to take responsibility for the team's poor results, and team owner Shinya Sakai quickly followed suit, the team revealed Thursday.Under Kanemoto, who was hired to manage from 2016, the Tigers will finish last in the Central League for the first time since 2001. The Tigers finished fourth in 2016, and second last year, when they were eliminated in the first stage of the CL Climax Series."This (decision) is based on poor results," Kanemoto said at the Tigers' Hyogo Prefecture offices outside Osaka. "I have unfinished business, but…READ FULL ARTICLE