On the 4th, Softbank Hawks manager Hiroki Kokubo gave an overview of the first training session. The training camp, which began in Miyazaki on the 1st, was the final day of the first training session. Blessed with sunny skies and good weather, he nodded and said, "The players were able to move around well."

Arihara, who served as the opening pitcher for two consecutive years and also won the most wins consecutively, has been transferred to Nippon-Ham. The camp started with the themes of raising the overall strength of the team and the emergence of new talent, and manager Kokubo carefully monitored bullpen pitch of the starting pitchers, which is the most important issue, every day. On this day, Higashihama threw 105 pitches, and Maeda Yu, Haru Matsumoto and others also entered bullpen. "You can't tell just from bullpen, but unless new pitcher can break into the rotation, it will be difficult to win the (league) championship for the third consecutive year, so the competition for starting pitchers is going to be even more intense. That's what I'm focusing on," he said, expressing his hopes for an even more intense competition for the starting rotation.