Rakuten Eagles Eagles manager Hajime Miki attended a meeting of all 12 team managers held in Tokyo on the 20th.

Rakuten Eagles Kota Norimoto pitcher, who exercised his overseas free agent rights from The Giants, has moved to . The coach said, "(Norimoto) is one of the players who has led this team The Eagles, and as a baseball person, although the teams are different, but as friends who fought together, even though the teams have changed, I am sure that I will support him wholeheartedly and look forward to his success. I hope that Norimoto will continue to play his typical pitch way for the Giants, and I hope that he will continue to play an active role like Norimoto so that the baseball world will develop and baseball will become more exciting.

At the managers' meeting on this day, we discussed the further development of the baseball world. "Anyway, we talked about let's all do well so that the baseball world can be excited, and we were able to talk about various things centered on the development of the baseball world, including speeding up game time and DH from next year for Central League."