On the 20th, Rakuten Eagles announced the members of their spring training camp, which begins on February 1st.

catcher Hikaru Ito, who joined the team after exercising his overseas free agent (FA) rights from DeNA, will start in the minor leagues. Veteran pitcher Takayuki Kishi and pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa, who is aiming to return after left shoulder surgery, are also on the minor league roster (Kumejima, Okinawa).

Among rookies, five players started in the first team (Kinmu, Okinawa): Sota Fujiwara pitcher = Hanazono University, Tatsuki Ito pitcher = Waseda University, Akira Shigenaga infielder = Chuo University, Ryu Kutani pitcher = Oji University, outfielder = Kinki University. Kenta Maeda pitcher, who returned to Japan after 11 years, also joined the first team in order.

〇First-string members [Kin Town, Okinawa]

[pitcher (23)]

Sota Fujiwara, Contreras, Tatsuki Koja, Kenta Maeda, Kosei Shoji, Tatsuki Ito, Ureña, Haruto Nakagomi, Masahiro Ehara, Ren Kajiya, Ryu Kutani, Shoma Fujihira, Masaru Fujii, Masaya Nishigaki, Taisei Tsurusaki, Naoki Hihata, Ryota Takinaka, Katsutoshi Tai, Naoto Nishiguchi, Yuki Hayashi, Ryuta Konno, Seiya Ouchi, Uchi Seiryu

[catcher (4 people)]

Hikaru Ota, Kengo Horiuchi, Tsuyoshi Ishihara, and Kei Mizukami

[infielder (11 players)]

Hiroto Kobukata, Rui Muneyama, Hideto Asamura, Itsuki Murabayashi, Daichi Daichi Suzuki, Voight, Fumiya Kurokawa, Akira Shigenaga, Ryuya Taira, Daiki Irie, Kohiro Komori

[outfielder (9 players)]

Ryosuke Tatsumi, R., Gonzalez, Daisuke Nakashima, Naoki Sato McCusker, N. Sato, S. Sakagami, Atsuki Muto, Yuya Ogo, Soshi Yoshino

〇 Second team members [Kumejima, Okinawa]

[pitcher (15 players)]

Takayuki Kishi, Takahisa Hayakawa, Shota Watanabe Tomohito Sakai Chia-Hao Sung, Haruto Sakai Song, Sora Suzuki, Wataru Karashima Suzuki, Kosei Koga, Daichi Shibata Shibata, Taisei Ito, Kazuto Tokuyama, Takuma Matsuda, Takuma Makazawa, Qi Xiao

[catcher (5 people)]

Hikaru Ito, Takaya Tanaka, YG Yasuda, Toshiya Osakae, Taiga Shimahara

[infielder (7 players)]

Yoshiaki Watanabe, Yukiya Ito, Waterers, Takumi Aono, Po Hsiang Yang, Yuya Kishimoto, Kyosuke Kaneko

[outfielder (5)]

Kazuki Tanaka, Tsubasa Yoshino, Ginji Maeda, Daita Horomura, Shion Otsubo