Nippon Professional Baseball
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
- Luke VoitIFOut
Right elbow ligament damage + common tendon rupture (surgery Aug 1) · Expected return: Will not return this season
- Shota WatanabePInjured list
Right elbow cleanup surgery (Aug 18) + right foot os trigonum removal (Sep 13); rehabbing with the farm team
- Wataru KarashimaRPInjured list
Left elbow joint cleanup surgery (scheduled Oct 3); rehabbing with the farm team
Frequent pitcher moves Sep 9-15 (Itsuki Ito activated; Akira Shigenaga, Daiki Irie, Takaya Tanaka and others deactivated). No trades/releases.
Chiba Lotte Marines
- Atsuki TaneichiPInjured list
Ruptured left Achilles (surgery Apr 30); first post-op bullpen session as of late August · Expected return: Return date TBD
- Yuto KimuraPInjured list
Right elbow UCL damage (surgery Jun 18) · Expected return: Return date TBD
- Shota UedaCInjured list
Right Achilles repair surgery (Feb 27); rehabbing · Expected return: Return date TBD
Many call-ups in the last 1-2 weeks (Kazuya Ojima, Shota Ishikawa, Tatsunari Miyazaki, Kenta Chaya, etc.). Foreign pitchers Jackson and Lucacy called up (both signed before summer). No trades/releases.