On the 23rd, Seibu Lions announced the allocation of players for the spring training camp, which will begin on February 1st in Nango, Miyazaki and Haruno, Kochi. Among the rookies, first-round draft pick Kojima (Meiji University), second-round draft pick Iwaki (Chuo University), and third-round draft pick Akiyama (Chukyo University) will start on the first team.
The allocation is as follows:
[First team]
▽ pitcher
Watanabe, H. Takahashi, Y. Yoza, Sumida, M. Matsumoto, Iwaki, T. Takeuchi, Aoyama, W. Winans, K. Kaino, Y. Yamada, N. Narita, M. Wingenter, S. Shinohara, E. Ramirez, K. Kuroda, H. Taira, M. Mameda, S. Sugai, H. Hamaya, Sou Sato, and R. Takahashi.
▽ catcher
Kojima, Y. Koga, T. Tsuge, and K. Koresawa.
▽ infielder
Nakata, Ishii, Tonozaki, Genda, Nevin, Yamamura, Sato, Takizawa, and Murata.
▽ outfielder
Kuwahara, Watabe, Hiruma, Canario, Chano, Akiyama, Nishikawa, Nakazo, Hasegawa, and Hayashi Anka.
[Second team]
▽ pitcher
Ueda, Itokawa, Bo, Sugiyama, Nakamura, Yu, Sasaki, Miyazawa, Miura, Sinclair, Moriwaki, Gonzalez, Oliver
▽ catcher
Sumitani, Makino, Noda
▽ infielder
Kodama, D. Saito, H. Hirasawa, T. Takamatsu, T. Nakamura, K. Kaneko, H. Fukuo, and K. Corniel
▽ outfielder
Kuriyama, Furukawa, Hayashi, Kawada, Kishi, Okumura, Ramal, and Okem
[Third Army]
▽ pitcher
Sato, J., Horikoshi, H., Haneda, K., Kariu, K., Kuroki, K., Uema, K., Saito, Y., Hamaoka, H., Hiraguchi, K., Kawashita, K., Kise, M., Masaki, M., Musa, F., and Fred.
▽ catcher
Tatsuyama, Nomura
▽ infielder
Yokota, Arai, Imaoka, Koga, and Taniguchi
▽ outfielder
Ando, Sawada, Carlos
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