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The Saitama Seibu Lions announced their 2024 coaching staff one week after the regular season ended this month.
Majority of the staff remains the same, with only one leaving. Farm pitching coach Tetsuya Utsumi left the Lions staff to join the Yomiuri Giants and Shinnosuke Abe's team, whom he played majority of his career for.
New additions to the staff include Daiki Enokida and Tomoshi Aoki at the farm level.
Enokida, 37, played for the Lions from 2018-2021 and came over through a trade with the Hanshin Tigers. He will serve as a farm pitching coach and be learning under Tatsuya Oishi.
Aoki, 44, played for the Hiroshima Carp from 1998-2000 and had stints as a player in the independent BC League. Mostly recently he was a coach at Rissho University.
Otherwise, we've seen two coaches swap places from ichi-gun to ni-gun as listed below.
Here is the full staff:
Ichi-gun staff
Ni-gun staff
Manager: 74 Fumiya Nishiguchi
Manager: 77 Kazuo Matsui
Head Coach: 83 Yosuke Hiraishi
Pitching Coach: 81 Kiyoshi Toyoda
Pitching Coach: 93 Hayato Aoki
Battery Coach 82 Kosuke Noda
Hitting Coach: 80 Shigenobu Shima
Hitting Coach: 91 Hisashi Takayama
Infield Defense and Base Running: 76 Masahiro Abe (Moves from ni-gun to ichi-gun)
Outfield Defense and Base Running: 86 Shogo Akada
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Manager: 74 Fumiya Nishiguchi
Field General Coach: 79 Tatsuya Oseki
Battery Coach: 96 Shota Nakata
Ikusei Battery Coach, Bullpen Catcher and human resources director:
98 Yuta Arakawa
Hitting Coach: 88 Hiroyuki Oshima
Infield Defense and Base Running Coach: 87 Satoshi Kuroda (moves from ichi-gun)
Outfield Defense and Base Running Coach: 84 Masato Kumashiro
Ikusei Infield Defense and Base Running Coach: 94 Yuji Onizaki
Pitching General Coach: 95 Tatsuya Oishi
Pitching Coach: 90 Shunichiro Osada
Pitching Coach: 85 Daiki Enokida
Ikusei Coach and Human Resources Development Chief: 97 Tomoshi Aoki
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