Hiroki Kuroda, who this season won his 200th career game in top-flight pro baseball, said Tuesday that he will hang up his spikes at the end of this season.
The 41-year-old Kuroda has a 124-105 record in Nippon Professional Baseball and went 79-79 in the majors with the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees. In 2015, he turned down major league offers, leaving millions of dollars on the table to fulfill a promise and return to the Hiroshima Carp, the ballclub he started his career with in 1997.
His final act will be in the Japan Series, which starts at Mazda Stadium on Saturday against the Pacific League champion Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.