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2025.11.3(月) 18:00

Zozo Marine Stadium [Photo: provided by the team]

Chiba Lotte Marines announces coaching staff for 2026

Chiba Lotte Marines 's coaching staff for the 2026 season has been decided as follows:

▼First Army▼
Position: Name (age) / number
Director: Saburo (49) / 86
Head coach and chief battery coach: Hidekazu Mitsuyama (59) / 90
Chief hitting coach and base running coach: Tsuyoshi Nishioka (41) / 77
Chief infield defense base running coach: Hideaki Matsuyama (58) / 80
pitcher coach: Tomohiro Kuroki (51) / 84
pitcher coach: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (47) / 71
Batting coach: Kenta Kurihara (43) / 88
Battery coach: Naoya Emura (33) / 76
infield defense and base running coach: Shunichi Nemoto (42) / 87
outfield defense and base running coach: Shota Ishimine (37) / 74

▼Second Army▼
Position: Name (age) / number
Director: Kazuya Fukuura (49)/70
pitcher coach: Kenji Otonari (40) / 78
pitcher coach: Takahiro Matsunaga (37) / 79
pitcher coach: Manabu Mima (39) / 81
Development pitcher coach and pitcher coach: Masateru Minami (36) / 85
Hitting coach: Koichi Hori (56) / 75
Batting coach: Kei Hosoya (37) / 82
Battery coach: Takeru Kanazawa (41) / 73
infield defense and base running coach: Ryo Miki (34) / 72
outfield defense and base running coach: Kenji Morozumi (56) / 83

▼Coordinator▼
Position: Name (age)
First-team pitcher coordinator: Yoshinori Tateyama (49)
Second team pitcher coordinator: Takashi Kawai (49)
Hitting coordinator: Daichi Yazawa (26)
defense Coordinator: Makoto Kosaka (52)

※Titles omitted
*Age as of November 3, 2025

Tohoku Rakuten to send three players to the 2025 Asia Winter Baseball League

Tohoku Rakuten will send three players, Takumi Aono, Po Hsiang Yang, and Soshi Yoshino, to the 2025 Asia Winter Baseball League, which will be held in Taiwan from Saturday, November 15th. The regular season will run from Saturday, November 15th to Friday, December 5th. post season will be held the following day, Saturday, the 6th, with the final and third-place match taking place on Sunday, the 7th.

▼Comment from Takumi Aono ▼
"I want to use this tournament as a good opportunity to improve my level, and continue the swing I've been working on this year to counter fast fastball and persevere when I'm backed into a tight spot. I also want to absorb a lot of things from players on other teams and use them in the future."

▼ Comments from Po Hsiang Yang ▼
"I'm originally from Taiwan, so I'm grateful to be able to play in my home country. I've felt that I lacked something in the past year since joining the team, and I want to improve my strengths and come back to the team at a higher level."

▼Comment from Soshi Yoshino ▼
"In this unusual environment, I want to focus on baseball and achieve results, and use this opportunity to show the results of the efforts I've been making this year. I also want to find something extra that will help me in the future before I return to Japan."

◇ Orix Kochi Fall Training Camp Participants Announced

Orix has announced the participating members of its fall camp, which will be held at INOUE-Tobu Sports Park ball park in Kochi City, Japan. The period is from Thursday, November 6 to Thursday, November 20. Holidays are Monday, November 10, Friday, November 14, and Tuesday, November 18.

▼ Kochi Fall Camp Members ▼
pitcher (12 members): Shumpeita Yamashita ・ Naruki Teranishi ・ Yoshihisa Hirano ・ Shota Abe ・ Syoichiro Yamazaki ・ Ryoga Tomiyama ・ Raiku Katayama ・ Kaede Yokoyama ・ Kaito Iriyama ・ Kazuma Sato ・ Kento Kawase ・ Yasuto Takashima
catcher (4 persons): Tomoya Mori ・ Sho Fukunaga ・ Ryoma Yamanaka ・ Shuna Hori
infielder (6 persons): Tomoya Noguchi ・ Kotaro Kobayashi ・ Ho Naito ・ Ryo Ota ・ Seiya Yokoyama ・ Jo Endo
outfielder (5 persons): Haruto Watanabe ・ Yusuke Mugitani ・ Ryoto Kita ・ Ryoma Ikeda ・ Tokumasa Chano
*Honorifics omitted