Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

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Rakuten Eagles





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Team logoCap insignia
Information
League

Nippon Professional Baseball (2005–present)



  • Pacific League (2005–present)
Ballpark


  • Miyagi Baseball Stadium (Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi)(2005–present)

Year established
2005
Nickname(s)


  • Washi (鷲, eagles)


  • Inuwashi (イヌワシ, golden eagles)


Pacific League pennants
1 (2013)
Japan Series championships
1 (2013)
Colors
Red, gold
Retired numbers
10, 77
Ownership
Rakuten Inc.
Manager
Yosuke Hiraishi
Uniforms


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The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス, Tōhoku Rakuten Gōruden Īgurusu) is a baseball team based in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. It has played in Nippon Professional Baseball's Pacific League since the team's formation in 2005. The team is owned by the Internet shopping company Rakuten.[1]




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 Current players

    • 2.1 Former managers


    • 2.2 Former players


    • 2.3 Retired numbers


    • 2.4 MLB players



  • 3 Honours and records

    • 3.1 2013 honours


    • 3.2 Records



  • 4 Golden Eagles Fan Club honorary members


  • 5 See also


  • 6 Gallery


  • 7 External links


  • 8 References




History


The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix BlueWave and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment. The merger was to leave the Pacific League with five teams, causing the biggest crisis in the history of the NPB, including the first player strike in Japanese professional baseball history.


After posting losing records in their first four seasons, the team finished second behind the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the 2009 pennant race under the leadership of manager Katsuya Nomura, the oldest manager in NPB history. In the league championship playoffs the Eagles lost the six-game series against the Fighters 1–4 and Nomura announced his retirement. In 2010 the team was managed by American Marty Brown, the former manager of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Brown was fired after a single season after the team had slumped back to last place. Hall of Fame member Senichi Hoshino subsequently managed the team for four years, including their successful 2013 season, where they defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines to claim the League championship and went on to become Japan Series champions after defeating the Yomiuri Giants. Masataka Nashida has been the team's manager since 2016.


The team's stadium was heavily damaged by floods during the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.[2]



Current players




Former managers





  • Japan Yasushi Tao




  • Japan Katsuya Nomura




  • United States Marty Brown




  • Japan Senichi Hoshino




  • Japan Hiromoto Okubo




  • Japan Masataka Nashida




  • Japan Yosuke Hiraishi


Former players



  • United States Luis Lopez




  • Curaçao Andruw Jones




  • United States Ryan Glynn




  • United States Eric Valent




  • United States Cedrick Bowers




  • United States Kevin Hodges




  • United States Gary Rath




  • United States Andy Tracy




  • Canada Aaron Myette




  • United States Matt Skrmetta




  • United States Damon Minor




  • Japan Katsunori Nomura




  • Japan Tetsuya Iida




  • Japan Takeshi Nakamura




  • Japan Tadaharu Sakai




  • Japan Hideo Koike




  • Japan Koichi Oshima




  • United States Kevin Witt




  • United States Adam Bass




  • United States Kevin Youkilis




  • Japan Toyohiko Yoshida




  • Japan Koichi Sekikawa




  • Japan Kazuo Fukumori




  • Japan Takeshi Yamasaki




  • Japan Norihiro Nakamura




  • Japan Masahiro Tanaka




  • Japan Takashi Saito




  • Taiwan Lin Ying-Chieh




  • Dominican Republic Domingo Guzmán




  • Australia Travis Blackley


Retired numbers


  • 10 – This number is worn by both team mascots, Clutch and Clutchina, and is considered the number of the fan, the 'tenth man' on the field. It is the first retired number in NPB involving a fan, inspired by some teams in other sports (such as football, which retires "12" for the "12th man", or basketball, which retires "6" for the "6th man"). There are ten starting players in the Pacific League as the league uses the designated hitter. The Chiba Lotte Marines has the No. 26 retired in similar fashion (MLB's Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim has retired No. 26, in similar fashion, for the original owner Gene Autry).


MLB players


Active:



  • Hisashi Iwakuma (2012–)


  • Masahiro Tanaka (2014–)

Retired:



  • Kazuo Fukumori (2008)


Honours and records



2013 honours


Rakuten (楽天) were victorious in the 2013 Japan Series after defeating the Yomiuri Giants .



Records








































































































































































Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
YearManagerGamesWinsLossesTiesPct.GBBAERAPlace
2005Yasushi Tao13638971.28151.5.2555.676
2006Katsuya Nomura13647854.35633.0.2584.306
2007Katsuya Nomura14467752.47213.5.2624.314
2008Katsuya Nomura14465763.46111.5.2723.895
2009Katsuya Nomura14477661.5385.5.2674.012
2010Marty Brown14462793.44015.0.2653.986
2011Senichi Hoshino14466717.48222.5.2452.855
2012Senichi Hoshino144676710.5007.5.2522.994
2013Senichi Hoshino14482593.582-.2673.511
2014Senichi Hoshino14464800.44417.0.2553.976
2015Hiromoto Okubo14357833.40733.5.2413.826
2016Masataka Nashida14362783.44325.0.2574.115
2017Masataka Nashida14377633.55015.0.2543.333
Total--185383797943.462––––


Golden Eagles Fan Club honorary members


  • Shirō Asano

  • Great Sasuke

  • Takanori Hatakeyama

  • Hiroshi Ikushima

  • Junichi Inagaki

  • Hiroya Masuda

  • Shingo Mimura

  • Masatoshi Nakamura

  • Toshiyuki Nishida

  • Itsurō Ōizumi

  • Kōhei Ōtomo

  • Sanpei

  • Hiroshi Saitō

  • Eisaku Satō

  • Masao Sen

  • Mayo Suzukaze

  • Yoshitake Tanaka

  • Sukeshiro Terata

  • Kōichi Yamadera


See also


  • "The Manpower!!!" (THE マンパワー!!!) – the first Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded and released as a single by J-pop idol group Morning Musume.

  • "Koero! Rakuten Eagles" (越えろ!楽天イーグルス) – the fourth Golden Eagles' official cheer song, recorded by J-pop idol group Cute.


Gallery





  • Miyagi Baseball Stadium





External links





  • (in Japanese) Official page for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles


References



  1. ^ Rakuten Golden Eagles (Sendai) Team Information. JapanBall.com. Retrieved on 2013-09-19.


  2. ^ Japan Pro Baseball and the Earthquake and Tsunami Archived 11 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine.









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