Many professional baseball teams will begin camping on the 1st, and will begin full-scale team building in preparation for the season's opening day on March 29th.
Most professional baseball teams start their camps on the 1st,
and in Okinawa Prefecture, the team won the No. 1 title in Japan for the first time in 38 years last season and is aiming for the first consecutive league championship in team history under manager Akifu Okada, who is entering his second year. Seven teams will start their games, including Hanshin and Rakuten, whose new manager, Toshiaki Imae, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the team's founding.
▽In Miyazaki Prefecture, there are three teams, including the Giants, whose manager Shinnosuke Abe has been appointed with the aim of making a comeback from 4th place for the second consecutive year, and Softbank, whose new manager Hiroki Kokubo is aiming to win the league for the first time in four years and become number one in Japan. Let's start building a team.
Previously, all 12 teams started their training camp on February 1st, but this year, two teams delayed the start of their camps, and Orix, who is aiming for their fourth consecutive league title and the first since its predecessor Hankyu in 46 years, will start their training camp on February 1st. In Miyazaki City, Seibu will camp in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture on the 6th.
This year will be the first spring camp since the new coronavirus was classified as Category 5 under the Infectious Disease Control Law, and some teams are expanding the areas that can be visited and increasing the number of fan services such as photo shoots and autographs. is.
Each team will camp for about a month, then play an open game before opening the season on March 29th.