On the 26th, Rakuten Eagles announced that former batting coach Taketoshi Goto (45) would be leaving the team. He started this season as the first-team batting coach, but was transferred to the second-team batting coach in June mid-season. In October, it was announced that he would retire as coach at the end of the season and become a team staff member, but he has now decided to leave the team.

At Yokohama High School, he was a classmate of former Seibu Lions and Red Sox player Daisuke Matsuzaka pitcher (45), and in 1998, his junior year, they Koshien won back-to-back spring and summer championships. He won the Triple Crown in the spring of his sophomore year at Hōgō University. Seibu Lions He was a free agent in the 2002 draft and joined DeNA in 2012, retiring after 18 years. Rakuten Eagles He joined the coaching staff in 1919.