On the 26th, Rakuten Eagles 's Tsurumazaki Taisei updated his profile and reported that he had passed the real estate agent qualification exam.

Tsurumazaki revealed, "I used my time outside of baseball to study and passed with 39 points." He continued, "It's not that I wasn't concentrating on baseball at all; I studied while concentrating 100% on baseball. I just used the time I could have spent relaxing by eating out, watching movies, watching Netflix, etc. to study, so please don't feel bad about it."

Tsurumazaki joined Rakuten Eagles as the third pick in the 2019 draft from Keio High School and Keio University. This season, he pitched in 17 games and had an ERA of 3.62.