On the 28th, Rakuten announced that Chikara Onodera, Takahiro Shiomi, and Katsumi Yamashita will be appointed as coaches.
Onodera and Shiomi will serve as pitcher coaches, and Yamashita will serve as hitting coach. The team also announced that second-team infield defense base running coach Nobuyuki Okumura will leave the team at the end of this season, and that Taketoshi Goto and Rei Nagai will join the team staff.
