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decoding="async" width="250" height="376" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/T-okada.jpg/375px-T-okada.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/T-okada.jpg/500px-T-okada.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2258" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Okada with the Orix Buffaloes</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b><a href="/wiki/Outfielder" title="Outfielder">Outfielder</a>/<a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First baseman">First baseman</a></b></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Born:</b> <span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1988-02-09</span>) </span>February 9, 1988<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 36)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Suita" title="Suita">Suita</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div class="ib-baseball-bio-batsthrows"><div><b>Batted:</b> Left</div><div><b>Threw:</b> Left</div></div></td></tr><tr style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">NPB debut</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">August 10, 2006, for the Orix Buffaloes</td></tr><tr style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Last NPB appearance</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">September 24, 2024, for the Orix Buffaloes</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">NPB statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Batting_average_(baseball)" title="Batting average (baseball)">Batting average</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">.257</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Hit_(baseball)" title="Hit (baseball)">Hits</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">1,192</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Home_run" title="Home run">Home runs</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">204</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Run_batted_in" title="Run batted in">Runs batted in</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">715</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:right; width:50%; padding-right:0.5em;"><a href="/wiki/Stolen_base" title="Stolen base">Stolen bases</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="width:50%; padding-left:0.5em;">32</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Teams</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-teams"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Orix_Buffaloes" title="Orix Buffaloes">Orix Buffaloes</a> (<a href="/wiki/2006_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2006 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2006</a>–<a href="/wiki/2024_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2024</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr class="ib-baseball-bio-highlights"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"> <ul><li>1× Pacific League Leader of Home Run (<a href="/wiki/2010_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2010 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2010</a>)</li> <li>1× <a href="/wiki/Best_Nine_Award" title="Best Nine Award">Pacific League Best Nine Award</a> (2010)</li> <li>1× <a href="/wiki/Mitsui_Golden_Glove_Award" title="Mitsui Golden Glove Award">Pacific League Golden Glove Award</a> (<a href="/wiki/2014_Nippon_Professional_Baseball_season" title="2014 Nippon Professional Baseball season">2014</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/2022_Japan_Series" title="2022 Japan Series">2022</a>)</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Takahiro Okada</b> (岡田貴弘, born February 9, 1988, in <a href="/wiki/Suita" title="Suita">Suita</a>), playing as <b>T-Okada (T-岡田)</b>, is a <a href="/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">Japanese</a> former <a href="/wiki/Professional_baseball" title="Professional baseball">professional baseball</a> <a href="/wiki/Outfielder" title="Outfielder">outfielder</a> and <a href="/wiki/First_baseman" title="First baseman">first baseman</a> who spent his 19–year career with the <a href="/wiki/Orix_Buffaloes" title="Orix Buffaloes">Orix Buffaloes</a> of <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Professional_Baseball" title="Nippon Professional Baseball">Nippon Professional Baseball</a> (NPB) from 2006 to 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Takahiro_Okada&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Okada was selected by <a href="/wiki/Orix_Buffaloes" title="Orix Buffaloes"><b>The Orix Buffaloes</b></a> with their first-round pick of the 2005 draft. </p><p>Okada was only the second player in history to record a pinch-hit grand slam in 2010, he became the home run king（One of the title of NPB), after Nakanishi Futoshi (<a href="/wiki/Nishitetsu_Baseball_Club" title="Nishitetsu Baseball Club">Nishitetsu Baseball Club</a>) in 1955. In terms of <a href="/wiki/RBIs" class="mw-redirect" title="RBIs">RBIs</a>, he was the first player to record 90 or more RBIs at the age of 22 in six years, since Nakajima Hiroyuki (<a href="/wiki/Saitama_Seibu_Lions" title="Saitama Seibu Lions">Saitama Seibu Lions</a>) in 2004. It was the first time in 14 years since <a href="/wiki/Troy_Neal" title="Troy Neal">Troy Neal</a> in 1996 that an Orix player had become the home run king, and the first time in 37 years for a Japanese player since Nagaike Tokuji of the predecessor <a href="/wiki/Hankyu_Braves" class="mw-redirect" title="Hankyu Braves">Hankyu Braves</a> in 1973.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2007, Okada changed his batting style from a single-legged style to a sliding style to improve his accuracy. In the summer, he was called up to the Japanese national baseball team for the Beijing Pre-Olympic Games, and contributed to Japan's victory as a key player. </p><p>Okada was registered as an <a href="/wiki/Infielder" title="Infielder">infielder</a> in 2009. He changed his playing name to T-Okada to prevent confusion to then-newly hired manager <a href="/wiki/Akinobu_Okada" title="Akinobu Okada">Akinobu Okada</a>. The following season he finished with 33 home runs, the most in <a href="/wiki/Pacific_League" title="Pacific League">Pacific League</a>, so he opted to keep his new name despite Akinobu Okada leaving the team in 2012.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In 2010, Okada made his first appearance in the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://npb.jp/bis/scores/allstargame/boxscore2010_1.html">All-Star Game</a>, and in the second game he started as the youngest fourth batter in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_League" title="Pacific League">Pacific League</a> (22 years and 5 months old), braking the record set by <a href="/wiki/Kazuhiro_Kiyohara" title="Kazuhiro Kiyohara">Kazuhiro Kiyohara</a> (22 years and 11 months old) in 1990. In July, he won his first monthly MVP award with a batting average of .333, 9 home runs and 21 RBIs. On August 3rd and 5th, he hit two home runs in one game against Seibu, reaching his 28th homer, but then he fell into a slump and did not hit a homer in 15 games. However, on August 22nd, he recovered and hit two homers in one game against the <a href="/wiki/Chiba_Lotte_Marines" title="Chiba Lotte Marines">Chiba Lotte Marines</a>, achieving his pre-season goal of 30 homers. On September 8th against Lotte, he hit a double off <a href="/wiki/Shunsuke_Watanabe" title="Shunsuke Watanabe">Shunsuke Watanabe</a> and ran to second base, suffering a torn muscle and being diagnosed with a six-week recovery period. However, eight days later, on September 16th, in a game against Seibu, he came in as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the eighth inning with the score tied and the bases loaded with two outs, and recorded his first grand slam as a professional. It was the first time in nine years since <a href="/wiki/Yasuo_Fujii" title="Yasuo Fujii">Yasuo Fujii</a> hit a pinch-hit grand slam for the team in 2001. He ended up hitting 33 homers (T-Okada was the only player to hit more than 30 homers in the Pacific League that year), becoming the first 22-year-old to win the home run title in 48 years since <a href="/wiki/Sadaharu_Oh" title="Sadaharu Oh">Sadaharu Oh</a>. He was also the second player in history to record a pinch-hit grand slam in the same year he became the home-run king, after <a href="/wiki/Futoshi_Nakanishi" title="Futoshi Nakanishi">Futoshi Nakanishi</a> (Nishitetsu) in 1955. It was also the first time in six years since <a href="/wiki/Hiroyuki_Nakajima" title="Hiroyuki Nakajima">Hiroyuki Nakajima</a> (Seibu) in 2004 that a 22-year-old had recorded more than 90 RBIs. It was the first time in 14 years since <a href="/wiki/Troy_Neal" title="Troy Neal">Troy Neal</a> in 1996 that an Orix player had won the home run title, and for Japanese players, it was the first time in 37 years since <a href="/wiki/Tokuji_Nagaike" title="Tokuji Nagaike">Tokuji Nagaike</a> of the predecessor team, the <a href="/wiki/Hankyu_Braves" class="mw-redirect" title="Hankyu Braves">Hankyu Braves</a>, in 1973. </p><p>November 6 2012, he was selected for the Japanese national team for the <a href="/wiki/Samurai_Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Samurai Japan">Samurai Japan</a> Match 2012 (Japan vs. Cuba).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2014, Okada reduced weight from 104kg to 98kg, but developed back pain just before the opening day. Due to this, Okada made his first appearance on April 12th, and since then he has been mainly established as the "5th batter and first baseman". Since then, Okada has maintained a batting average in the high 20s and steadily racked up home runs, hitting 20 home runs for the first time in four years in a game against the <a href="/wiki/Nippon_Ham_Fighters" class="mw-redirect" title="Nippon Ham Fighters">Nippon Ham Fighters</a> on September 14th. In the second game of the first stage of the <a href="/wiki/Climax_Series" title="Climax Series">Climax Series</a> on October 12th, Okada hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to turn the game around and bring the team its first Climax Series victory. He also won his first <a href="/wiki/Mitsui_Golden_Glove_Award" title="Mitsui Golden Glove Award">Golden Glove Award</a> as a first baseman.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2016, Okada started camp in the second team due to pain in his left <a href="/wiki/Achilles_tendon" title="Achilles tendon">Achilles tendon</a>, but started the season with the first team. Okada was batting fifth in the first half of the season, but after the game against Lotte on July 3rd, he was settled in the fourth position and showed signs of recovery, recording a team-leading 20 home runs and 76 RBIs. His defensive position was mainly left field (70 games), but he also played first base (43 games) and designated hitter (9 games). </p><p>Okada was appointed as the Representative of Japan Professional Baseball Players Association at Orix in 2017 . He started in the opening game as the sixth batter and first baseman. In March and April 2017, Okada recorded a batting average of .351 and seven homers, and was awarded his second monthly MVP. He was appointed in six different batting orders depending on the team's circumstances, including being used as the leadoff hitter for the first time since turning pro in the game against Nippon Ham on August 5th. Okada hit his 150th professional homer in the game against Saitama Seibu on August 26th. In the game against Chiba Lotte on September 29th, he hit his 30th homer for the season, which was a record of 99,999th homer throughout NPB history. In the end, he recorded 31 homer and a career-best on-base percentage of .374. </p><p>Okada participated in the Puerto Rican winter league as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Atenienses_de_Manat%C3%AD_(baseball)" title="Atenienses de Manatí (baseball)">Atenienses de Manatí (baseball)</a> in 2019. </p><p>In 2020, Okada made the team's 8,500th home run record on September 9th against Seibu. </p><p>On September 28th 2021, against Lotte, Okada hit a three-run homer off <a href="/wiki/Ayumu_Ishikawa" title="Ayumu Ishikawa">Ayumu Ishikawa</a>, achieving his 200th homer, and on September 30th against the same game, he hit a three-run homer off <a href="/wiki/Naoya_Masuda" title="Naoya Masuda">Naoya Masuda</a>, contributing to three straight wins in the three-game series, where a loss of even one game would have lit up the magic number for Lotte to win the championship. He played in 115 games, with a batting average of .241, 17 homers, and 63 RBIs, and the team won its first league championship since turning pro. </p><p>Despite Orix's <a href="/wiki/Japan_Series" title="Japan Series">Japan Series</a> victory in 2022, Okada had one of his lower hitting years, only finishing the year with a .149 batting average and a single homer, while driving in 10 runs in 36 games.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. 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Yamada">Nobuyoshi Yamada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">58 <a href="/wiki/Kazutomo_Iguchi" title="Kazutomo Iguchi">Kazutomo Iguchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">59 <a href="/wiki/Luis_Perdomo_(baseball,_born_1993)" title="Luis Perdomo (baseball, born 1993)">Luis Perdomo</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">63 <a href="/w/index.php?title=K%C5%8Dsuke_Kawachi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kōsuke Kawachi (page does not exist)">Kōsuke Kawachi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">66 <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Suzuki_(baseball)" title="Hiroshi Suzuki (baseball)">Hiroshi Suzuki</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">93 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuma_Satoh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuma Satoh (page does not exist)">Kazuma Satoh</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">94 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kento_Kawase&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kento Kawase (page does not exist)">Kento Kawase</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">95 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kaito_Saiki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kaito Saiki (page does not exist)">Kaito Saiki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">96 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Taito_Takashima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Taito Takashima (page does not exist)">Taito Takashima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">97 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Seiry%C5%AB_Kotajima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seiryū Kotajima (page does not exist)">Seiryū Kotajima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">98 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ry%C5%ABsei_Gonda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryūsei Gonda (page does not exist)">Ryūsei Gonda</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Catchers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">2 <a href="/wiki/Kenya_Wakatsuki" title="Kenya Wakatsuki">Kenya Wakatsuki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">4 <a href="/wiki/Tomoya_Mori" title="Tomoya Mori">Tomoya Mori</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">32 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sho_Fukunaga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sho Fukunaga (page does not exist)">Shō Fukunaga</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">37 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ryo_Ishikawa_(baseball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryo Ishikawa (baseball) (page does not exist)">Ryō Ishikawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">44 <a href="/wiki/Yuma_Tongu" title="Yuma Tongu">Yūma Tongū</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">62 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shuna_Hori&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shuna Hori (page does not exist)">Shūna Hori</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Infielders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">3 <a href="/wiki/Ryoichi_Adachi" title="Ryoichi Adachi">Ryōichi Adachi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">5 <a href="/wiki/Masahiro_Nishino" title="Masahiro Nishino">Masahiro Nishino</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">6 <a href="/wiki/Yuma_Mune" title="Yuma Mune">Yūma Mune</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">8 <a href="/wiki/Marwin_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Marwin González">Marwin González</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">9 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomoya_Noguchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tomoya Noguchi (page does not exist)">Tomoya Noguchi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">10 <a href="/wiki/Koji_Ohshiro" title="Koji Ohshiro">Kōji Ohshiro</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">24 <a href="/wiki/Kotaro_Kurebayashi" title="Kotaro Kurebayashi">Kōtarō Kurebayashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">25 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ho_Naitoh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ho Naitoh (page does not exist)">Hō Naitoh</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">30 <a href="/wiki/Taishi_Hirooka" title="Taishi Hirooka">Taishi Hirooka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">31 <a href="/wiki/Ryo_Ohta" title="Ryo Ohta">Ryō Ohta</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">34 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Seiya_Yokoyama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seiya Yokoyama (page does not exist)">Seiya Yokoyama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">36 <a href="/wiki/Tatsuya_Yamaashi" title="Tatsuya Yamaashi">Tatsuya Yamaashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">40 <a href="/wiki/Leandro_Cede%C3%B1o" title="Leandro Cedeño">Leandro Cedeño</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">53 <a href="/wiki/Sho_Gibo" title="Sho Gibo">Shō Gibo</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">64 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosei_Ohsato&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosei Ohsato (page does not exist)">Kōsei Ohsato</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">67 <a href="/wiki/Keita_Nakagawa" title="Keita Nakagawa">Keita Nakagawa</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Outfielders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">0 <a href="/wiki/Haruto_Watanabe" class="mw-redirect" title="Haruto Watanabe">Haruto Watanabe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1 <a href="/wiki/Shuhei_Fukuda_(baseball,_born_1992)" title="Shuhei Fukuda (baseball, born 1992)">Shūhei Fukuda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">7 <a href="/wiki/Ryoma_Nishikawa" class="mw-redirect" title="Ryoma Nishikawa">Ryōma Nishikawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">27 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kendai_Gen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kendai Gen (page does not exist)">Kendai Gen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">33 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ryu_Sugisawa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryu Sugisawa (page does not exist)">Ryū Sugisawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">38 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ryoto_Kita&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryoto Kita (page does not exist)">Ryōto Kita</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">39 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ryoma_Ikeda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ryoma Ikeda (page does not exist)">Ryōma Ikeda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">41 <a href="/wiki/Kodai_Sano_(baseball)" title="Kodai Sano (baseball)">Kōdai Sano</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">45 <a href="/wiki/Cody_Thomas" title="Cody Thomas">Cody Thomas</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">50 <a href="/wiki/Yuya_Oda" title="Yuya Oda">Yūya Oda</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">55 <a class="mw-selflink selflink">T-Okada</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">61 <a href="/wiki/Tokumasa_Chano" title="Tokumasa Chano">Tokumasa Chano</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">99 <a href="/wiki/Yutaro_Sugimoto" title="Yutaro Sugimoto">Yūtarō Sugimoto</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Development pitchers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">003 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yuito_Nakata&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yuito Nakata (page does not exist)">Yuito Nakata</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">032 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kaito_Iriyama&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kaito Iriyama (page does not exist)">Kaito Iriyama</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">041 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hiroto_Suga&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hiroto Suga (page does not exist)">Hiroto Suga</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">042 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kaito_%C5%8Ce&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kaito Ōe (page does not exist)">Kaito Ōe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">043 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Riku_Miyaguni&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Riku Miyaguni (page does not exist)">Riku Miyaguni</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">044 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Taketo_Ashida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Taketo Ashida (page does not exist)">Taketo Ashida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">130 <a href="/wiki/Taiki_Ono" title="Taiki Ono">Taiki Ono</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Development catchers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">034 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ky%C5%8Dichir%C5%8D_Murakami&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kyōichirō Murakami (page does not exist)">Kyōichirō Murakami</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Development infielders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">045 <a href="/w/index.php?title=S%C5%8Dta_Kawano&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sōta Kawano (page does not exist)">Sōta Kawano</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">124 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ky%C5%8Dhei_Ueno&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kyōhei Ueno (page does not exist)">Kyōhei Ueno</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">126 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazuya_Katsuki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazuya Katsuki (page does not exist)">Kazuya Katsuki</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Development outfielders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">004 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Yamato_Hirano&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Yamato Hirano (page does not exist)">Yamato Hirano</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">020 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Takayuki_Yamanaka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Takayuki Yamanaka (page does not exist)">Takayuki Yamanaka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">123 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Motohide_Kinoshita&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Motohide Kinoshita (page does not exist)">Motohide Kinoshita</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">First squad<br />coaching</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Manager: 78 <a href="/wiki/Satoshi_Nakajima" title="Satoshi Nakajima">Satoshi Nakajima</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Head coach: 88 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Katsumi_Mizumoto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Katsumi Mizumoto (page does not exist)">Katsumi Mizumoto</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">General fielding coach: 76 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Naoyuki_Kazaoka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Naoyuki Kazaoka (page does not exist)">Naoyuki Kazaoka</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Pitching coaches: 75 <a href="/wiki/Kazuyuki_Atsuzawa" title="Kazuyuki Atsuzawa">Kazuyuki Atsuzawa</a>, 72 <a href="/wiki/Masafumi_Hirai" title="Masafumi Hirai">Masafumi Hirai</a>, 73 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rui_Makino&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rui Makino (page does not exist)">Rui Makino</a>, 71 <a href="/wiki/Mamoru_Kishida" title="Mamoru Kishida">Mamoru Kishida</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Batting coaches: 79 <a href="/wiki/Ryutaro_Tsuji" class="mw-redirect" title="Ryutaro Tsuji">Ryūtarō Tsuji</a>, 83 <a href="/wiki/Eiichi_Koyano" title="Eiichi Koyano">Eiichi Koyano</a>, 85 <a href="/wiki/Shinji_Takahashi_(baseball)" title="Shinji Takahashi (baseball)">Shinji Takahashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Infield defense/base running coaches: 77 <a href="/wiki/Eishin_Soyogi" title="Eishin Soyogi">Eishin Soyogi</a>, 80 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Shuhei_Kojima&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shuhei Kojima (page does not exist)">Shūhei Kojima</a>, 3 <a href="/wiki/Ryoichi_Adachi" title="Ryoichi Adachi">Ryōichi Adachi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Outfield defense/base running coaches: 81 <a href="/wiki/So_Taguchi" title="So Taguchi">Sō Taguchi</a>, 70 <a href="/wiki/Yusuke_Matsui" title="Yusuke Matsui">Yūsuke Matsui</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Battery coaches: 87 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Toshio_Saitoh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toshio Saitoh (page does not exist)">Toshio Saitoh</a>, 74 <a href="/wiki/Katsuki_Yamazaki" title="Katsuki Yamazaki">Katsuki Yamazaki</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color: #bbad38 !important; color: #000320 !important;">Second squad<br />coaching</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">Manager: 89 <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Kobayashi_(baseball)" title="Hiroshi Kobayashi (baseball)">Hiroshi Kobayashi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Patrol head coach:   <a href="/w/index.php?title=Seiichiro_Nakagaki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Seiichiro Nakagaki (page does not exist)">Seiichiro Nakagaki</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Chief development coach: 90 <a href="/wiki/Toshio_Haru" title="Toshio Haru">Toshio Haru</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Development coaches: 86 <a href="/wiki/Shintaro_Yoshida" title="Shintaro Yoshida">Shintarō Yoshida</a>, 84 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kohei_Suzuki_(infielder,_born_1991)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kohei Suzuki (infielder, born 1991) (page does not exist)">Kōhei Suzuki</a>, 91 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Daisuke_Iida&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Daisuke Iida (page does not exist)">Daisuke Iida</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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href="/wiki/Shuhei_Fukuda_(baseball,_born_1992)" title="Shuhei Fukuda (baseball, born 1992)">Shuhei Fukuda</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">2 <a href="/wiki/Kenya_Wakatsuki" title="Kenya Wakatsuki">Kenya Wakatsuki</a> </span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">3 <a href="/wiki/Ryoichi_Adachi" title="Ryoichi Adachi">Ryoichi Adachi</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">5 <a href="/wiki/Masahiro_Nishino" title="Masahiro Nishino">Masahiro Nishino</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">6 <a href="/wiki/Yuma_Mune" title="Yuma Mune">Yuma Mune</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">7 <a href="/wiki/Masataka_Yoshida" title="Masataka Yoshida">Masataka Yoshida</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">9 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Tomoya_Noguchi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tomoya Noguchi (page does not exist)">Tomoya Noguchi</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">10 <a href="/wiki/Koji_Ohshiro" title="Koji Ohshiro">Koji Ohshiro</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">11 <a href="/wiki/Sachiya_Yamasaki" title="Sachiya Yamasaki">Sachiya Yamasaki</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">13 <a href="/wiki/Hiroya_Miyagi" title="Hiroya Miyagi">Hiroya Miyagi</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">16 <a href="/wiki/Yoshihisa_Hirano_(baseball)" title="Yoshihisa Hirano (baseball)">Yoshihisa Hirano</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">18 <a href="/wiki/Yoshinobu_Yamamoto" title="Yoshinobu Yamamoto">Yoshinobu Yamamoto</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">19 <a href="/wiki/Taisuke_Yamaoka" title="Taisuke Yamaoka">Taisuke Yamaoka</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">20 <a href="/wiki/Taisuke_Kondoh" title="Taisuke Kondoh">Taisuke Kondoh</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">21 <a href="/wiki/Daichi_Takeyasu" title="Daichi Takeyasu">Daichi Takeyasu</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">23 <a href="/wiki/Torai_Fushimi" title="Torai Fushimi">Torai Fushimi</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">24 <a href="/wiki/Kotaro_Kurebayashi" title="Kotaro 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class="nowrap">45 <a href="/wiki/Shota_Abe" title="Shota Abe">Shota Abe</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">46 <a href="/wiki/Hitomi_Honda_(baseball)" title="Hitomi Honda (baseball)">Hitomi Honda</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">50 <a href="/wiki/Yuya_Oda" title="Yuya Oda">Yuya Oda</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">54 <a href="/wiki/Y%C5%ABta_Kuroki" title="Yūta Kuroki">Yūta Kuroki</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">55 <a class="mw-selflink selflink">T-Okada</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">56 <a href="/wiki/Atsuya_Kogita" title="Atsuya Kogita">Atsuya Kogita</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">58 <a href="/wiki/Jacob_Waguespack" title="Jacob Waguespack">Jacob Waguespack</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">63 <a href="/wiki/Soichiro_Yamazaki" title="Soichiro Yamazaki">Soichiro Yamazaki</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">67 <a href="/wiki/Keita_Nakagawa" title="Keita Nakagawa">Keita Nakagawa</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">96 <a 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Takayama (page does not exist)">Ikuo Takayama</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">Pitching 75 <a href="/wiki/Kazuyuki_Atsuzawa" title="Kazuyuki Atsuzawa">Kazuyuki Atsuzawa</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">Hitting 77 <a href="/wiki/Eishin_Soyogi" title="Eishin Soyogi">Eishin Soyogi</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">Hitting 79 <a href="/wiki/Ryutaro_Tsuji" class="mw-redirect" title="Ryutaro Tsuji">Ryutaro Tsuji</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">Infield 76 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Kazeoka_Naoyuki&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kazeoka Naoyuki (page does not exist)">Kazeoka Naoyuki</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">Outfield 81 <a href="/wiki/So_Taguchi" title="So Taguchi">So Taguchi</a></span></dd> <dd><span class="nowrap">Catching 87 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Toshio_Saito&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toshio Saito (page does not exist)">Toshio Saito</a></span></dd></dl> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p><br /> </p> 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