Lions announce 2024 coaching staff

 

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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

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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Ni-gun staff

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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