Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Announces 2027 Coaching Staff

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham has announced its coaching staff for 2027. It was also announced that Keisuke Tanimoto (current team staff) will take over as pitcher coach, and Yohei Kagiya (current Baseball Operations, Team Management Division) will become assistant pitcher coach and assistant pitcher coordinator.

▼2027 Season Coaching Staff▼
Position: Name *Titles omitted

[First Team]
・Manager: Tsuyoshi Shinjo
・Head Coach: Takaya Hayashi
・Chief Batting Coach: Atsunori Inaba
・General fielder coach: Tsuyoshi Nishioka
・pitcher & pitcher coach: Nao Miyanishi
・pitcher coach: Keisuke Tanimoto
・pitcher coach: Hisashi Takeda
・Battery Coach: Katsuhiko Yamada
・Batting Coach: Toshitake Yokoo
・outfield defense coach: Tetsuya Matsumoto

・pitcher coordinator: Chihiro Kaneko
・Assistant pitcher coach & assistant pitcher coordinator: Yohei Kagiya
・Batting Coordinator: Tomoaki Sato

[Farm Team]
・Manager: Hichori Morimoto
・General Coach: Takeharu Kato
・pitcher coach: Hiroshi Urano
・pitcher coach: Takayoshi Eguchi
・Battery Coach: Naoki Matoba
・Batting Coach: Tomoyuki Oda
・infield defense coach: Ryota Yachi
・outfield defense base running coach: Toshimasa Konda
・Development Coach: Manabu Iwadate

Fukuoka Softbank announces 2027 coaching staff

Fukuoka Softbank has announced its coaching staff for 2027. Second team chief pitcher coach Takashi Ogasawara will leave the team, and third team pitcher coach Hayato Terahara is scheduled to take a position as an amateur scout.

▼2027 Season Coaching Staff▼
Position: Name / number *Titles omitted

・Manager: Hiroki Kokubo / 90
・Chief fielder coach: Arihito Muramatsu / 93
・Batting coach & Skill coach: Yuya Hasegawa / 78
・Infield defense base running & Strategy coach: Yuichi Honda / 80
・Outfield defense base running & Strategy coach: Takayuki Onishi / 79
・Battery coach: Toru Hosokawa / 87

・Second team manager: Kazumi Saito / 88
・Second team pitcher coach (Chief): Masatoshi Okumura / 86
・Second team batting coach: Shigeru Morikasa / 74
・Second team infield defense base running coach: Keisuke Kaneko / 91
・Second team battery coach: Masaumi Shimizu / 83

・Third team manager: Motoi Okoshi / 92
・Third team pitcher coach (Chief): Felipe Natel / 97
・Third team batting coach: Noriyoshi Omichi / 75
・Third team infield defense base running coach: Tomoki Takata / 82
・Third team outfield defense base running coach: Ryuma Kidokoro / 96
・Third team battery coach: Hiroaki Takaya / 84

・Fourth team chief & defense base running coach: Takashi Sasagawa / 014
・Fourth team batting coach: Masahiro Nakatami / 018

・Farm pitcher coach: Kenichi Wakatabe / 017
・Farm pitcher coach: Junji Hoshino / 020
・Farm pitcher coach: Kazuhisa Makita / 013

・Coordinator General (and Infield defense): Hiroshi Narahara / 011
・Coordinator (Pitcher General): Ryutaro Fukuyama / 015 *New appointment
・Coordinator (Pitcher): Hidetaka Kawagoe / 012
・Coordinator (Pitcher): Kenichi Nakata / 016
・Coordinator (Fielder General): Hisao Aragane / 023
・Coordinator (Batting): Koichi Sekikawa / 019
・Coordinator (Battery): Hiroyuki Mori / 022
・Coordinator (Outfield defense base running): Tatsuya Ide / 021

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