On the 28th, Softbank Hawks held a "Play Ball Meeting" (staff meeting) in Fukuoka City, where about 80 staff members from the first to fourth teams gathered. They also confirmed the allocation of players for the training camp that begins on February 1st.

Many starter were called up to the A group, which is equivalent to the first team, to fill the gap left by Arihara, who was transferred to Nippon-Ham. New foreign player Xu Ruohee Yugo Maeda, in his third year as a professional, were selected.

It has also been decided that, as in last year, an S group will be created, consisting mainly of veterans and mainstay players, who will join the team from February 14th. The allocation is as follows:

[Group A]

▽16 pitcher

Stewart Jr., Naoyuki Uwasawa, Yuki Tsumori, Ruoxi Xu, Ryosuke Otsu, Ryusei Oe, Toshiya Nakamura, Takato Shuto Ogata, Kazuki Sugiyama Sugiyama, Yugo Maeda, Yusuke Ito, Tomohisa Ozeki, Haru Matsumoto, Taiga Kamichatani, Hikaru Kimura, and Armenta

▽17 fielder

Watanabe R., Kenta Tanigawara, Takashi Umino, Akira Kawase, Downs, Ryoya Kurihara, Yudai Shoji, Hirose R., Itua Ikhine, Tomoya Inoue, Isami Nomura, Ukyo Shuto, Tomoya Masaki Tatsuru Yanagimachi, Yanagimachi Yoshiyasu Sasakawa Y., Akihiro Y., and Keita Yamamoto

[Group B]

▽19 pitcher

Inagawa, Ryuta, Suzuki, Shunsuke Iwai, Ryo Oyama, Taisei Kimura, Kazuo Ono, Taisei, Shunsuke Iwasaki Kenichi Murata Fuga Otake Shunsuke, Koichiro Okada, Otake, Fuga, Aihara, Yuta, Yuta Aihara, Fujiwara, Haruto Fujiwara, Oya, Ryusei, Yamazaki, Takuma Yamasaki Chun-Wei Chang Junwei, Rodriguez, Nagamizu, Keima, Kaito Uchino, and Sardi

▽15 fielder

Yutaro Fujita, So Otomo, Soichiro Ishizuka, Takayoshi Takahashi, Koki Nakazawa Yuki Hirose, Kyoshiro Sakura, Kyogo Yamashita, Ayuma Nishio, Riku Ogata, Yuto Kawamura, Shuya Oizumi, Shuji Kuwahara, Kota Sato

[Group S]

▽6 pitcher

Nao Higashihama, K., Moinelo, Koya Fujii, Osuna, H. Hernandez, Yuki Matsumoto

▽ 7 fielder

Hiroki Minei, Hotaka Yamakawa, Kenta Imamiya, Akira Nakamura, Taisei Makihara, Kensuke Kondo, and Yuki Yanagita