Nippon-Ham held a press conference at Escon on the 2nd and announced that the location for their farm team has been tentatively decided as Eniwa City, Hokkaido. They aim to open the facility in 2030 or 2031 and will relocate from Kamagaya, Chiba.

The site will be located between JR Chitose Line's Megumino Station and Shimamatsu Station, covering a total of 46 hectares. This is a vast area, roughly equivalent to 10 Tokyo Dome. The facilities will be a hybrid of public and private construction, but the details will be finalized in the future. Plans include a main stadium with a capacity of 3,000 to 5,000 people, an indoor practice facility, a players' dormitory, commercial spaces, residential areas, and accommodation facilities.

In professional baseball, there has been a series of farm team relocations. Yakult will move from Toda Baseball Ground in Saitama Prefecture to Moriya City in Ibaraki Prefecture next season. Lotte is planning to move from Lotte Urawa Baseball Stadium in Saitama City to Kimitsu City in Chiba Prefecture in 2030. In addition, Chunichi 's farm team, currently based at Nagoya Stadium, has indicated its intention to establish a new farm base in the early 2030s and has begun soliciting applications from municipalities to be the relocation site.

What are the reasons for moving the farm team's established home field? The common factor for the four teams, including Nippon-Ham, is the aging of their facilities. Kamagaya has been in use since 1997, and Lotte Urawa since 1989. Toda Baseball Ground opened in 1977, making this its 50th year. Nagoya Stadium, although it has undergone renovations, opened in 1948 and has been used as the farm team's home field since 1997.

Toda Baseball Ground was flooded by a typhoon in 2019, which became a major trigger for considering relocation. Lotte Urawa, like Toda Baseball Ground, has a limited number of stands, and its number ground, training facilities, and player dormitories have become too small, leading them to decide to relocate.

In the case of Nippon-Ham, a major reason was not only the aging of the facilities, but also the fact that the first team and second team had been separated due to the first team's relocation to Hokkaido. There was also the aim of eliminating the disadvantages of travel and smooth player rotation.

Currently, the farm league operates under a three-division system: East, Central, and West. However, with the recent influx of team relocations, there is a possibility that the divisional assignments will be reorganized in the near future.