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

Among the rookies, five players will start in the first team: draft No. 1 Sota Fujiwara pitcher (Hanazono University), No. 2 Tatsuki Ito pitcher (Waseda University), No. 3 Akira Shigenaga infielder (Chuo University), No. 6 Ryu Kutani pitcher (Oji), and No. 7 Shoya Hankami outfielder (Kinki University). Manager Hajime Miki expressed his expectations, "We have five rookies in the first team this time, including Fujiwara, the first pick in the draft, and I hope these young players will continue to appeal to the public.

pitcher Kenta Maeda, returning to Japan after 11 years, and other new foreign players will start in the first team. The depth of the roster has increased, and the competition will intensify. The manager said with excitement, "I have high expectations for all the players, and I want them to be aware of the competition. I can't wait to play baseball with the players in their jersey."

▽First-string members

[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 Hito, 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

▽ Second team members

[pitcher (15 players)]

Takayuki Kishi, Takahisa Hayakawa Tomohito Sakai Shota Watanabe, 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