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, Ruohui Xu, Ryosuke Otsu, Ryusei Oe, Toshiya Nakamura, Shuto Ogata, Kazuki Sugiyama Sugiyama, Yugo Maeda, Yusuke Ito, Tomohisa Ozeki, Haru Matsumoto, Taiga Kamichatani, Hikaru Kimura, and Armenta
▽野手１７人
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
▽野手１５人
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
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