Three top officials of the Yomiuri Giants, Japan's oldest existing professional baseball team, will resign following the team's announcement on Tuesday that a fourth Giants player was found to have bet on baseball.
According to the team, left-handed reliever Kyosuke Takagi, who has pitched in 139 games over the past four seasons, told the club earlier in the day that he had bet on baseball from 2014. Three of Takagi's teammates received indefinite suspensions in November, after they were involved in the same gambling scheme.
None of the four pitchers were found to have been involved in match fixing or betting on games in which they actually played.