This is the team’s first spring training in Okinawa as defending champions! It is interesting to see which players are going full throttle from the start, and which will take things a bit more slowly at the second squad camp. Read on for tentative schedules and rosters for both camps, which are approximately 30 minutes apart by car.
Thursday, February 1 – Tuesday, February 27
Scheduled days off: February 5 (Mon), 9 (Fri), 15 (Thur), 21 (Wed)
First Squad: Ginoza, Okinawa
Exhibition games scheduled:
- 17th (Sat) 1:00 pm vs. Eagles @ Ginoza
- 18th (Sun) 1:00 pm Intrasquad?
- 20th (Tue) 1:00 pm vs. Samsung Lions @ Ginoza
- 23rd (Fri) 1:00 pm vs. Giants @ Naha
- 24th (Sat) 1:00 pm vs. Swallows @ Urasoe
- 25th (Sun) 12:30 pm vs. Dragons @ Chatan
Players invited:
Pitchers – Javy Guerra, Junya Nishi, Yuki Nishi, Koyo Aoyagi, Tsuyoshi Shiiba, Masashi Itoh, Keito Mombetsu, Taisei Urushihara, Hiroto Saiki, Masumi Hamachi, Masaki Oyokawa, Shoki Murakami, Takuma Kirishiki, Hidetoshi Ibaragi, Koutaro Ohtake, Ren Tomida, Hidetaka Okadome, Atsuki Yuasa, Daichi Ishii, Jeremy Beasley = 20 men
Catchers – Ryutaro Umeno, Seishiro Sakamoto, Kento Fujita, Hayato Nakagawa = 4 men
Infielders – Seiya Kinami, Yusuke Ohyama, Takahiro Kumagai, Teruaki Sato, Ryo Watanabe, Ryuhei Obata, Takumu Nakano, Kai Ueda = 8 men
Outfielders – Shota Morishita, Koji Chikamoto, Sheldon Neuse, Kota Inoue, Johan Mieses, Ukyo Maegawa, Dan Onodera, Kyosuke Noguchi = 8 men
Second Squad: Uruma, Okinawa
Exhibition games scheduled:
- TBA
Players designated:
Pitchers – Suguru Iwazaki, Yuta Iwasada, Kaito Shimomura, Daichi Moriki, Takumi Akiyama, Yuto Suzuki, Hiroya Shimamoto, Ren Kajiya, Yuya Ishiguro, Junya Tsuda, Masaki Iwata, Ippei Ogawa, Kai Matsubara, Ryo Itoh, Riku Kawahara, Haruto Takahashi, Ren Satoh = 17 men
Catchers – Yuki Sakaeda, Kenya Nagasaka, Yuya Katayama = 3 men
Infielders – Kento Itohara, Reiji Toi, Jo Endo, Shuya Yamada, Aoi Momosaki, Nozomu Takatera, Fumihito Haraguchi = 7 men
Outfielders – Hinase Itsubo, Yuto Takahama, Kairi Shimada, Hiroshi Toyoda, Kein Fukushima = 5 men