New manager, new farm camp location! That’s right! No longer will our young horticulturalists be freezing their crops in Kochi Prefecture in February. Read on for tentative schedules and rosters for both camps, which are now approximately 30 minutes apart by car!
Wednesday, February 1 – Monday, February 27
Scheduled days off: February 3 (Fri), 8 (Wed), 13 (Mon), 17 (Fri), 22 (Wed)
First Squad: Ginoza, Okinawa
Exhibition games scheduled:
- 15th (Wed) 1:00 pm vs. Eagles @ Kin
- 18th (Sat) 1:00 pm vs. Baystars @ Ginoza
- 19th (Sun) 1:00 pm vs. Samsung Lions @ Ginoza
- 23rd (Thur) 1:00 pm vs. Dragons @ Chatan
- 25th (Sat) 1:00 pm vs. Swallows @ Urasoe
- 26th (Sun) 1:00 pm vs. Fighters @ Nago
Players invited:
Pitchers – Suguru Iwazaki, Yuta Iwasada, Junya Nishi, Yuki Nishi, Koyo Aoyagi, Brian Keller, Masashi Itoh, Hiroto Saiki, Masumi Hamachi, Shoki Murakami, Kyle Keller, Hiroya Shimamoto, Takuma Kirishiki, Kotaro Ohtake, Ren Kajiya, Hidetaka Okadome, Atsuki Yuasa, Daichi Ishii, Masaki Iwata, Jeremy Beasley = 20 men
Catchers – Ryutaro Umeno, Seishiro Sakamoto, Yuki Sakaeda = 3 men
Infielders – Seiya Kinami, Yusuke Ohyama, Takahiro Kumagai, Teruaki Sato, Ryo Watanabe, Kento Itohara, Ryuhei Obata, Takumu Nakano, Kai Ueda, Fumihito Haraguchi = 10 men
Outfielders – Koji Chikamoto, Sheldon Neuse, Shun Takayama, Kouta Inoue, Kairi Shimada, Johan Mieses, Ukyo Maegawa, Yutaro Itayama = 8 men
Second Squad: Uruma, Okinawa
Exhibition games scheduled:
- 16th (Thur) 1:00 pm vs. Dragons @ Yomitan
- 20th (Mon) 1:00 pm vs. Dragons @ Yomitan
- 23rd (Thur) 12:30 pm vs. Enagic @ Uruma
- 24th (Fri) 1:00 pm vs. Fighters @ Nago
Players designated:
Pitchers – Kosuke Baba, Daichi Moriki, Takumi Akiyama, Yuto Suzuki, Haruto Takahashi, Keito Mombetsu, Akira Niho, Masaki Oyokawa, Hidetoshi Ibaragi, Ren Tomida, Keisuke Kobayashi, Ippei Ogawa, Yuta Watanabe, Atsushi Mochizuki, Ryo Itoh, Riku Kawahara, Ren Satoh = 17 men
Catchers – Kenya Nagasaka, Kento Fujita, Hayato Nakagawa, Yuya Katayama = 4 men
Infielders – Yasuhiro Yamamoto, Fumiya Hojoh, Yuto Takahama, Jo Endo, Nozomu Takatera = 5 men
Outfielders – Shota Morishita, Hinase Itsubo, Dan Onodera, Hiroshi Toyoda, Kyosuke Noguchi = 5 men