2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season

The 2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles season was the fourth season of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles franchise. The Eagles played their home games at Miyagi Baseball Stadium in the city of Sendai as members of Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League. The team was led by Katsuya Nomura on his third season as team manager.

2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
League	Pacific League
Ballpark	Kleenex Stadium Miyagi
Record	65–76–3 (.461)
League place	5th
Parent company	Rakuten
President	Toru Shimada
Manager	Katsuya Nomura
Average attendance	15,959
Eagles seasons 2009 →

Rakuten did not qualify for the Climax Series, finishing the season in fifth place with a record of 65–76–3.

Regular season

Standings

Pacific League regular season standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	GB	PCT	Home	Away
1	Saitama Seibu Lions	144	76	64	4	—	.542	44–27–1	32–37–3
2	Orix Buffaloes	144	75	68	1	5.5	.524	41–31–0	34–37–1
3	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	144	73	69	2	6	.514	41–30–1	32–39–1
4	Chiba Lotte Marines	144	73	70	1	7.5	.510	41–30–1	32–40–0
5	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	144	65	76	3	12.5	.462	37–34–1	28–42–2
6	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	144	64	77	3	13.5	.455	36–33–3	28–44–0

Source: ^[1]

Interleague

Team v t e	Pld	HW	HL	AW	AL	GB	PCT
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	24	10	2	5	7	—	.625
Hanshin Tigers	24	10	2	5	7	—	.625
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	24	8	4	6	6	1	.583
Yomiuri Giants	24	9	3	5	7	1	.583
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	24	6	6	7	5	2	.542
Hiroshima Toyo Carp	24	6	6	7	5	2	.542
Chunichi Dragons	24	8	4	4	8	3	.500
Orix Buffaloes	24	6	6	5	7	4	.458
Tokyo Yakult Swallows	24	4	8	7	5	4	.458
Chiba Lotte Marines	24	6	6	4	8	5	.417
Saitama Seibu Lions	24	7	5	3	9	5	.417
Yokohama BayStars	24	5	7	1	11	9	.250

Updated to match(es) played on compute. Source: ^[2]
Rules for classification: Whenever multiple teams have same number of wins, the team having better standings in last year's interleague games will have advantage, thus Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks won the interleague title, despite Hanshin Tigers beating the Hawks 3 out of 4 games. A similar rule applies to other teams tied in wins.

Record vs. opponents

2008 record vs. opponents^[1]

Team	Buffaloes	Eagles	Fighters	Hawks	Lions	Marines	CL
Buffaloes	—	13–10–1	13–11	14–10	10–14	14–10	11–13
Eagles	10–13–1	—	13–10–1	12–12	10–14	7–16–1	13–11
Fighters	11–13	10–13–1	—	17–7	9–14–1	12–12	14–10
Hawks	10–14	12–12	7–17	—	10–11–3	10–14	15–9
Lions	14–10	14–10	14–9–1	11–10–3	—	13–11	10–14
Marines	10–14	16–7–1	12–12	14–10	11–13	—	10–14

Opening Day roster

Thursday, March 20, 2008, at Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks^[3]

Order	Player	Pos.
1	Naoto Watanabe	SS
2	Teppei Tsuchiya	CF
3	Daisuke Kusano	3B
4	José Fernández	1B
5	Takeshi Yamasaki	DH
6	Rick Short	LF
7	Koichi Isobe	RF
8	Yosuke Takasu	2B
9	Akihito Fujii	C
—	Hisashi Iwakuma	P

Game log

2008 game log: 65–76–3 (Home: 37–34–1; Away: 28–42–2)
March: 4–4 (Home: 2–0; Away: 2–4) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak 1 March 20 @ Hawks 3–4 Kume (1–0) Guzmán (0–1) — Yahoo Dome 35,722 0–1–0 L1 2 March 22 @ Hawks 4–5 (11) Nitkowski (1–0) Watanabe (0–1) — Yahoo Dome 31,014 0–2–0 L2 3 March 23 @ Hawks 0–4 Oba (1–0) Asai (0–1) — Yahoo Dome 31,660 0–3–0 L3 4 March 25 @ Buffaloes 4–5 Takagi (1–0) Ichiba (0–1) Kato (3) Kyocera Dome 34,911 0–4–0 L4 5 March 26 @ Buffaloes 11–0 Nagai (1–0) Mitsuhara (0–1) — Kyocera Dome 11,052 1–4–0 W1 6 March 27 @ Buffaloes 2–0 Iwakuma (1–0) Kaneko (1–1) — Kyocera Dome 23,547 2–4–0 W2 7 March 29 Fighters 7–2 Tanaka (1–0) Hoshino (0–1) — Kleenex Stadium 20,189 3–4–0 W3 8 March 30 Fighters 3–1 Asai (1–1) Glynn (0–2) Aoyama (1) Kleenex Stadium 19,518 4–4–0 W4
April: 13–10 (Home: 11–1; Away: 2–9) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak 9 April 1 Marines 7–4 Koyama (1–0) Komiyama (0–2) Aoyama (2) Kleenex Stadium 10,927 5–4–0 W5 10 April 2 Marines 6–3 Nagai (2–0) Shimizu (0–2) Aoyama (3) Kleenex Stadium 14,285 6–4–0 W6 11 April 3 Marines 9–1 Iwakuma (2–0) Kubo (1–1) — Kleenex Stadium 15,018 7–4–0 W7 12 April 4 @ Lions 2–4 Hoashi (1–0) Lin (0–1) Graman (2) Shikishima Stadium 17,599 7–5–0 L1 13 April 5 @ Lions 2–4 Ishii (3–0) Tanaka (1–1) Onuma (1) Seibu Dome 23,902 7–6–0 L2 14 April 6 @ Lions 3–4 Kinney (2–1) Asai (1–2) Graman (3) Seibu Dome 18,213 7–7–0 L3 15 April 8 @ Fighters 7–8 Takeda (3–0) Lin (0–1) Nakamura (3) Sapporo Dome 20,257 7–8–0 L4 16 April 9 @ Fighters 2–4 Yoshikawa (1–2) Nagai (2–1) Nakamura (4) Sapporo Dome 19,044 7–9–0 L5 17 April 10 @ Fighters 0–1 Yu Darvish (3–0) Iwakuma (2–1) — Sapporo Dome 25,197 7–10–0 L6 18 April 11 Buffaloes 5–4 (10) Aoyama (1–0) Yamaguchi (1–1) — Kleenex Stadium 10,626 8–10–0 W1 19 April 12 Buffaloes 3–0 Tanaka (2–1) Kondo (2–1) — Kleenex Stadium 15,456 9–10–0 W2 20 April 13 Buffaloes 12–6 Asai (2–2) Kawagoe (1–2) — Kleenex Stadium 12,879 10–10–0 W3 21 April 15 @ Marines 6–7 Ono (1–0) Nagai (2–2) Ogino (4) Chiba Marine Stadium 17,336 10–11–0 L1 22 April 16 @ Marines 1–2 Shimizu (2–2) Guzmán (0–2) — Chiba Marine Stadium 16,853 10–12–0 L2 23 April 17 @ Marines 11–2 Iwakuma (3–1) Kubo (1–3) — Chiba Marine Stadium 9,211 11–12–0 W1 — April 19 Lions Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: October 4 Kleenex Stadium — — — 24 April 20 Lions 3–4 (10) Iwasaki (1–0) Aoyama (1–1) Graman (6) Kleenex Stadium 19,601 11–13–0 L1 25 April 22 Hawks 4–3 Asai (3–2) Powell (1–1) Aoyama (4) Kleenex Stadium 11,799 12–13–0 W1 26 April 23 Hawks 4–0 Nagai (3–2) Otonari (2–3) — Kleenex Stadium 12,353 13–13–0 W2 — April 24 Hawks Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: September 30 Kleenex Stadium — — — 27 April 25 Fighters 6–1 Iwakuma (4–1) Yoshikawa (1–4) — Kleenex Stadium 13,213 14–13–0 W3 28 April 26 Fighters 6–1 Guzmán (1–2) Fujii (1–2) — Kleenex Stadium 16,826 15–13–0 W4 29 April 27 Fighters 5–0 Tanaka (3–1) Glynn (1–4) — Kleenex Stadium 20,634 16–13–0 W5 30 April 29 @ Buffaloes 1–2 Yamaguchi (2–1) Asai (3–3) Kato (7) Kyocera Dome 18,571 16–14–0 L1 31 April 30 @ Buffaloes 5–4 Koyama (2–0) Yamaguchi (2–2) — Kyocera Dome 13,146 17–14–0 W1
May: 12–11 (Home: 7–6; Away: 5–5) # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak 32 May 1 @ Buffaloes 1–6 Komatsu (3–0) Ichiba (0–2) — Skymark Stadium 14,003 17–15–0 L1 33 May 2 @ Fighters 1–5 Tadano (1–0) Iwakuma (4–2) Nakamura (9) Sapporo Dome 41,124 17–16–0 L2 34 May 3 @ Fighters 5–12 Sakamoto (1–1) Kawagishi (0–1) — Sapporo Dome 40,083 17–17–0 L3 35 May 4 @ Fighters 7–1 Tanaka (4–1) Glynn (1–5) — Sapporo Dome 42,126 18–17–0 W1 36 May 5 Hawks 5–7 (11) Ogura (4–1) Koyama (2–1) Yanase (1) Kleenex Stadium 20,572 18–18–0 L1 37 May 6 Hawks 4–8 Otonari (3–4) Nagai (3–3) — Kleenex Stadium 20,885 18–19–0 L2 38 May 7 Hawks 9–7 Asai (4–3) Takeoka (0–1) Arime (1) Kleenex Stadium 10,667 19–19–0 W1 39 May 9 @ Marines 11–4 Iwakuma (5–2) Ono (2–2) — Chiba Marine Stadium 16,849 20–19–0 W2 — May 10 @ Marines Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: September 19 Chiba Marine Stadium — — — 40 May 11 @ Marines 1–6 Shimizu (4–3) Tanaka (4–2) — Chiba Marine Stadium 24,892 20–20–0 L1 41 May 13 Buffaloes 2–8 Kondo (3–4) Nagai (3–4) — Fukushima Azuma 7,041 20–21–0 L2 — May 14 Buffaloes Postponed (rain) – Makeup date: September 4 Kleenex Stadium — — — 42 May 15 Buffaloes 1–2 Komatsu (4–0) Asai (4–4) Kato (10) Kleenex Stadium 11,581 20–22–0 L3 43 May 16 Lions 8–2 Iwakuma (6–2) Kishi (4–2) — Kleenex Stadium 12,057 21–22–0 W1 44 May 17 Lions 3–2 (12) Kawagishi (1–1) Okamoto (0–1) — Kleenex Stadium 14,265 22–22–0 W2 45 May 18 Lions 3–7 Hsu (1–0) Tanaka (4–3) — Kleenex Stadium 20,253 22–23–0 L1 46 May 20 Dragons 6–1 Nagai (4–4) Ogasawara (4–3) — Kleenex Stadium 12,964 23–23–0 W1 47 May 21 Dragons 1–3 Yamamoto (3–0) Asai (4–5) Iwase (13) Kleenex Stadium 15,372 23–24–0 L1 48 May 23 BayStars 7–5 Iwakuma (7–2) Kobayashi (1–1) Koyama (1) Kleenex Stadium 14,091 24–24–0 W1 49 May 24 BayStars 2–1 Guzmán (2–2) Oyamada (1–2) Koyama (2) Kleenex Stadium 17,435 25–24–0 W2 50 May 25 @ Swallows 10–2 Tanaka (5–3) Kamada (0–1) — Meiji Jingu Stadium 22,491 26–24–0 W3 51 May 26 @ Swallows 5–4 Nagai (5–4) Rios (2–6) Koyama (3) Meiji Jingu Stadium 16,483 27–24–0 W4 52 May 28 @ Giants 1–6 Utsumi (3–3) Hasebe (0–1) — Tokyo Dome 43,132 27–25–0 L1 53 May 29 @ Giants 4–2 Asai (5–5) Greisinger (5–3) Koyama (4) Tokyo Dome 41,106 28–25–0 W1 54 May 31 Carp 8–3 Iwakuma (8–2) Takahashi (6–3) — Kleenex Stadium 14,393 29–25–0 W2
June # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
July # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
August # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
September # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
October # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Stadium Attendance Record Streak
Legend:        = Win        = Loss        = Tie        = Postponement Bold = Eagles team member

Roster

2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
Roster
Pitchers  0 Hiroshi Sato 11 Yasuhiro Ichiba 13 Hisashi Ogura 14 Kenta Satake 14 Rui Makino 18 Masahiro Tanaka 20 Kohei Hasebe 21 Hisashi Iwakuma 26 Kanehisa Arime 28 Hiroshi Katayama 30 Satoshi Nagai 34 Koki Watanabe 36 Hideki Asai 40 Masaru Yoshizaki 41 Koji Aoyama 42 Marcus Gwyn 49 Lin Ying-chieh 50 Domingo Guzmán 51 Tsuyoshi Kawagishi 54 Hisashi Kitani 57 Shinichiro Koyama 65 Akira Matsumoto		Catchers 31 Akihito Fujii 37 Motohiro Shima 39 Suguru Ino 44 Jin Nakatani 48 Tadashi Ishimine 58 Kazuyoshi Kimura Infielders  1 Tatsuya Shiokawa  2 Naoto Watanabe  3 Yuji Yoshioka  4 Yosuke Takasu  6 Fernando Seguignol  7 Takeshi Yamasaki 12 Daisuke Kusano 17 José Fernández 32 Yoshinori Okihara 35 Shoji Ohiro 38 Katsumi Yamashita 66 Wataru Nishimura 68 Shintaro Masuda 98 Kensuke Uchimura		Outfielders  8 Koichi Isobe 23 Ryo Hijirisawa 24 Takahiro Yamazaki 25 Fuminori Yokogawa 33 Yosuke Hiraishi 46 Teppei Tsuchiya 55 Rick Short 61 Kenshi Kawaguchi 62 Fumikazu Takanami 64 Toshiya Nakashima 99 Masato Nakamura		Manager 19 Katsuya Nomura Coaches 78 Hideki Hashigami (head) 71 Makoto Kito (pitching) 76 Kento Sugiyama (bullpen) 77 Takahiro Ikeyama (hitting) 81 Koichi Sekikawa (assistant hitting) 80 Shunji Nishi (infield defense) 75 Manabu Satake (outfield defense) 73 Katsunori Nomura (battery) 70 Katsuhiko Yamada (battery)

Player statistics

Batting

2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles batting statistics^[4]

Player	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	K	AVG	OBP	SLG	TB
Hideki Asai	30	9	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	6	.111	.111	.111	1
José Fernández	142	541	81	163	40	0	18	99	5	53	78	.301	.368	.475	257
Akihito Fujii	90	190	15	50	7	0	0	13	3	18	25	.263	.329	.300	57
Domingo Guzmán	23	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	0
Kohei Hasebe	13	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	0
Ryo Hijirisawa	34	41	7	11	0	0	0	3	5	5	10	.268	.333	.268	11
Yosuke Hiraishi	6	13	2	3	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	.231	.333	.308	4
Suguru Ino	23	23	2	2	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	.087	.125	.087	2
Tadashi Ishimine	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	0
Koichi Isobe	46	124	6	29	2	0	0	12	2	12	16	.234	.300	.250	31
Hisashi Iwakuma	28	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	0
Hiroshi Katayama	18	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	0
Kenshi Kawaguchi	63	94	7	19	2	1	1	9	0	12	18	.202	.306	.277	26
Kazuyoshi Kimura	9	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0
Daisuke Kusano	118	328	36	89	15	0	3	36	2	20	33	.271	.321	.345	113
Shintaro Masuda	2	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	0
Satoshi Nagai	28	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	0
Masato Nakamura	49	144	15	42	6	3	1	12	6	12	14	.292	.346	.396	57
Toshiya Nakashima	81	178	27	56	10	1	5	25	1	21	28	.315	.397	.466	83
Jin Nakatani	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1
Wataru Nishimura	9	17	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	1	6	.118	.167	.176	3
Shoji Ohiro	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	0
Yoshinori Okihara	14	33	2	8	1	0	0	0	0	1	9	.242	.265	.273	9
Fernando Seguignol†	39	136	24	44	7	0	13	40	0	14	40	.324	.408	.662	90
Motohiro Shima	85	196	20	45	13	0	0	19	4	16	40	.230	.288	.296	58
Tatsuya Shiokawa	82	43	18	7	1	1	0	1	5	4	11	.163	.234	.233	10
Rick Short	134	491	62	163	31	2	12	71	4	25	51	.332	.365	.477	234
Fumikazu Takanami	51	19	10	4	2	0	0	4	5	1	3	.211	.250	.316	6
Yosuke Takasu	123	383	44	108	20	1	4	45	6	29	38	.282	.338	.371	142
Masahiro Tanaka	25	6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	0
Teppei Tsuchiya	124	422	52	114	29	6	5	56	5	42	52	.270	.345	.403	170
Kensuke Uchimura	47	152	21	44	5	0	0	13	9	6	21	.289	.327	.322	49
Naoto Watanabe	132	470	79	118	11	2	0	30	34	54	66	.251	.354	.283	133
Takeshi Yamasaki	142	510	63	141	21	0	26	80	1	73	118	.276	.372	.471	240
Katsumi Yamashita	33	78	13	20	3	0	1	9	0	6	19	.256	.318	.333	26
Takahiro Yamazaki	14	39	6	8	0	1	1	3	0	0	8	.205	.238	.333	13
Fuminori Yokogawa	55	140	13	32	3	0	4	15	2	11	37	.229	.285	.336	47
Yuji Yoshioka	12	16	0	5	1	0	0	1	0	1	7	.313	.353	.375	6
Total：38 players	1,937	4,880	627	1,329	232	18	94	604	101	439	777	.272	.340	.385	1,879

^†Denotes player joined the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.

^‡Denotes player left the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.

Bold/italics denotes best in the league^[5]

Pitching

2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles pitching statistics^[4]

Player	W	L	ERA	G	GS	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K
Koji Aoyama	3	8	3.89	41	6	4	78.2	86	39	34	26	61
Kanehisa Arime	2	2	2.05	66	0	2	44	33	10	10	17	45
Hideki Asai	9	11	4.38	29	23	0	148	165	81	72	60	122
Domingo Guzmán	2	7	3.87	23	16	0	102.1	99	47	44	34	65
Marcus Gwyn†	1	1	3.86	19	0	3	18.2	21	12	8	7	16
Kohei Hasebe	1	4	9.93	13	6	0	35.1	56	41	39	22	23
Yasuhiro Ichiba	0	3	9.77	12	8	0	31.1	49	38	34	21	27
Hisashi Iwakuma	21	4	1.87	28	28	0	201.2	161	48	42	36	159
Hiroshi Katayama	2	7	3.65	18	12	0	79	70	35	32	35	71
Tsuyoshi Kawagishi	4	3	1.94	54	0	3	55.2	49	14	12	20	47
Hisashi Kitani	0	3	4.12	22	5	1	39.1	40	18	18	13	24
Shinichiro Koyama	3	5	3.72	54	0	4	67.2	58	29	28	25	71
Lin Ying-chieh	0	2	5.23	5	1	0	10.1	10	7	6	5	3
Rui Makino‡	0	0	9.00	1	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	1
Akira Matsumoto	0	0	5.93	21	0	0	27.1	41	19	18	11	16
Satoshi Nagai	6	7	4.68	27	15	0	117.1	121	68	61	47	111
Hisashi Ogura	0	0	9.39	8	0	0	7.2	11	8	8	1	10
Kenta Satake†	2	0	2.14	24	0	0	21	15	6	5	9	22
Hiroshi Sato	0	0	0.00	1	0	0	.1	1	0	0	0	0
Masahiro Tanaka	9	7	3.49	25	24	1	172.2	171	71	67	54	159
Koki Watanabe	0	2	9.45	14	0	0	6.2	9	7	7	7	3
Masaru Yoshizaki	0	0	4.80	17	0	0	15	15	8	8	6	8
Total：22 players	65	76	3.89	522	144	18	1,281	1,283	607	553	456	1,064

^†Denotes player joined the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.

^‡Denotes player left the team mid-season. Stats reflect time with the Eagles only.

Bold/italics denotes best in the league^[6]

Awards and honors

Most Valuable Player Award^[7]

• Hisashi Iwakuma

Eiji Sawamura Award^[8]

• Hisashi Iwakuma

Nippon Life Monthly MVP Award^[9]

• Takeshi Yamasaki - March/April (batter)
• Hisashi Iwakuma - June (pitcher)
• Fernando Seguignol - September (batter)

Best Nine Award^[10]

• Hisashi Iwakuma - pitcher
• Rick Short - outfielder

Golden Spirit Award^[11]

• Hisashi Iwakuma

All-Star Series selections^[12]

• Hisashi Iwakuma - pitcher
• Masahiro Tanaka - pitcher
• Rick Short - infielder
• Takeshi Yamasaki - designated hitter

All-Star Series MVP^[13]

• Takeshi Yamasaki - Game 1

Nippon Life Award (Interleague play)^[14]

• Hisashi Iwakuma

Best Battery Award

• Hisashi Iwakuma and Akihito Fujii

JA Zen-Noh Go-Go Awards^[15]

Good Catch Award (July)

• Masato Nakamura (July 2)

Farm team

Eastern League regular season standings^[16]

Team	G	W	L	T	Win%	GB	Home	Away
Tokyo Yakult Swallows	96	55	34	7	.618	—	35–10–3	20–24–4
Yomiuri Giants	96	58	36	2	.617	—	29–15–1	29–21–1
Shonan Searex	96	50	43	3	.538	7	23–24–1	27–19–2
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	96	46	45	5	.505	10	24–21–3	22–24–2
Saitama Seibu Lions	96	42	51	3	.452	15	23–25–2	19–26–1
Chiba Lotte Marines	96	37	53	6	.411	18½	21–24–3	16–29–3
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	96	33	61	2	.351	24½	22–26–1	11–35–1

Nippon Professional Baseball draft

2008 Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Draft selections^[17]

Round	Name	Position	Affiliation	Signed?
1	Hiromichi Fujiwara	Pitcher	NTT Nishi Nippon	Yes
2	Taishi Nakagawa	Infielder	Sakuragaoka High School	Yes
3	Ryohei Isaka	Pitcher	Nippon Steel Kashima	Yes
4	Yusuke Inoue	Pitcher	Aoyama Gakuin University	Yes
5	Yusuke Kusuki	Outfielder	Panasonic	Yes
6	Wataru Karashima	Pitcher	Iizuka High School	Yes
Development players
1	Jobu Morita	Infielder	Kagawa Olive Guyners	Yes

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