Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

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Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles League Pacific League Location Sendai Ballpark Fullcast Stadium Miyagi Year Founded 2004 Nickname(s) Rakuten (楽天), Eagles (イーグルス), Washi (鷲, meaning eagle), Inuwashi (狗鷲, meaning golden eagle) League championships (none) Japan Series championships (none) Colors Red, gold, and white Logo Design Stylized white 'E' with wing, with gold trim.

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are a baseball team founded in 2004 to begin play in 2005 in the Japanese Pacific League. The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes, who merged at the end of the 2004 season due to financial difficulties, leaving the league with an odd number of teams. The team is based in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture. It inaugurated its first season with a 3 – 1 victory over Lotte. The team is owned by the Internet shopping company Rakuten [1].

As of the end of the 2006 season, the team's manager is Katsuya Nomura.

[edit] Players of note

[edit] Current Manager

• Katsuya Nomura

[edit] Current players

• Hisashi Iwakuma - P
• Masahiro Tanaka - P
• Kazuo Fukumori - P
• Lin Ying-Chieh - P
• Lin En-Yu - P
• Yasuhiro Ichiba - P
• Hisashi Ogura - P
• Toyohiko Yoshida - P
• Teppei Tsuchiya - CF
• Koichi Isobe - RF
• Koichi Sekikawa - CF
• José Fernández - 3B
• Rick Short - LF or 3B or 1B
• Kevin Witt - 1B
• Takeshi Yamasaki - 1B
• Yosuke Takasu - 2b

[edit] Former Players

• Luis Lopez
• Ryan Glynn
• Eric Valent
• Cedrick Bowers
• Kevin Hodges
• Gary Rath
• Andy Tracy
• Aaron Myette
• Matt Skrmetta
• Damon Minor
• Katsunori Nomura
• Tetsuya Iida
• Takeshi Nakamura
• Tadaharu Sakai
• Hideo Koike
• Koichi Oshima
• Kevin Witt

[edit] Retired numbers

• 10 - This number is worn by both team mascots, Clutch and Clutchina, and is considered the number of the fan, the 'tenth player' on the field.

[edit] Records

[edit] External links

• Official page for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles