This offseason, Nishikawa Haruki and Toshiki Abe, who were cut from the team, returned to the teams they joined when they first joined the pros.

Nishikawa joined Nippon-Ham as the second pick in the 2010 draft, and established himself in the first team in his second year in 2012. In 2014, he played in every game and won stolen base base title. In 2016, when the team won the league championship and became the best hitter, recording a batting average of .314, 5 Home Run, 43 RBI, and 41 stolen base.

He led The Fighters for many years, winning stolen base title in 2017, 2018, and 2021, being named to the Best Nine in 2016 and 2017, and winning the Golden Glove Award for four consecutive years from 2017, but left the team in the off-season of 2021 after winning stolen base title for the third time.

Rakuten Eagles played for Rakuten for two years from 2022 and for Yakult from 2024, but struggled this season with a batting average of .174 in 49 games and was released after the season ended. Nishikawa will return to Nippon-Ham for the first time in five years since 2021.

Nicknamed "The Master," Abe joined Chunichi in the fifth round of the 2003 draft, and in 1919 became the first player in his career to reach the batting order, batting .291. In 2010, he played in 133 games, his most in a season, but was traded to Rakuten Eagles in the offseason of that year. Rakuten Eagles He played in 78 games in his first and second years with RBI, but this season he played in 43 games and had a .219 batting average, 3 Home Run and 8 . Chunichi This will be the first time in four years that he has returned to the

Speaking of returning players to their former teams, there's Hisayoshi Nagano, who retired at the end of this season. Nagano joined The Giants as the first pick in the 2009 draft and, in his first year with the team in 2010, won the Rookie of the Year award with a batting average of .288, 19 Home Run, 52 RBI, and 12 stolen base. The following year, he batted .316 to win the hitter title, and the following year, he hit 173 hit to win the most hit title. He led the The Giants' batting lineup as a regular for many years, but was transferred to Hiroshima Carp in the offseason of 2018 as a human compensation player for Yoshihiro Maru, who joined the team as a free agent. After playing for four years with Hiroshima, he returned to The Giants in the offseason of 2022 in a free trade. After his return, he played in a The Giants uniform for three years before retiring at the end of this season.

Others include Takumi Kato (Chunichi → Lotte Dragons → Chunichi), Ginjiro Sumitani (Seibu Lions → The Giants → Rakuten Eagles → Seibu Lions), and Yoshihisa Hirano (Orix Buffaloes → Diamondbacks Dragons → Orix Buffaloes).