List of Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles managers

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Senichi Hoshino is the current manager of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles are a professional baseball team based in Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. The Eagles are members of the Pacific League (PL) in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). In baseball, the head coach of a team is called the manager, or more formally, the field manager. The duties of the team manager include team strategy and leadership on and off the field.[1][2] Since their inaugural season in 2005, the Eagles have employed seven managers. Under the franchise's first manager, Yasushi Tao, the team finished last in the PL. Tao's Eagles was the first PL team in 40 years to lose over 90 games in a single season.[3] The next season Tao was replaced by Japanese Baseball Hall of Famer Katsuya Nomura. During his four-year managerial tenure, Nomura accumulated 256 wins and a .459 winning percentage. Despite leading the team to its first Climax Series appearance in 2009, Eagles' management decided not to renew Nomura's contract.[4]

Marty Brown, Nomura's successor, signed to a two-year managerial contract, however he was fired after only one last-place season with the Eagles.[5] Instead, long-time manager Senichi Hoshino was hired and signed to a one-year, ¥150 million contract for the 2011 season.[6] After a fifth-place PL finish and the positive development of the team's younger players, Golden Eagles owner Hiroshi Mikitani requested that Hoshino stay on as manager for the next few seasons.[7] In the Eagles' ninth season, he went on to lead the team to the franchise's first PL pennant, first successful Climax Series run, and first Japan Series title in 2013.[8] The following season, however, the Eagles finished in last place and Hoshino announced that he would stepping down as manager.[9]

Yosuke Hiraishi is currently the interim manager for the remainder of the 2018 season.

Table key

# A running total of the number of Giants managers. Any manager who has two or more separate terms is only counted once.
GM Number of regular season games managed; may not equal sum of wins and losses due to tie games
W Number of regular season wins in games managed
L Number of regular season losses in games managed
T Number of regular season ties in games managed
Win% Winning percentage: number of wins divided by number of games managed that did not result in a tie
PA Postseason appearances: number of years this manager has led the franchise to the postseason
PW Postseason wins: number of wins this manager has accrued in the postseasonA
PL Postseason losses: number of losses this manager has accrued in the postseasonB
PT Postseason ties: number of ties this manager has accrued in the postseason
LC League Championships: number of League Championships, or pennants, achieved by the managerC
JS Japan Series: number of Japan Series won by the manager
† Elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

^A This does not include the one-win advantage that league champions are automatically awarded in the second stage of the Climax Series.
^B This does not include the one-loss disadvantage first stage winners are automatically given in the second stage of the Climax Series.
^C The Pacific League pennant was awarded to the winner of a playoff series for the seasons of 1973 to 1982 and 2004 to 2006. After the Climax Series was created in 2007, the team with the best record during the regular season was named the league champion, not the winner of the Climax Series.

Managers

Statistics current through the 2017 season

# Manager Seasons GM W L T Win% PA PW PL PT LC JS
1 Yasushi Tao 200513638971.281——————
2 Katsuya Nomura† 2006–200956825630210.459133000
3 Marty Brown 201014462793.440——————
4 Senichi Hoshino 2011–201457627927720.502184011
5 Hiromoto Okubo 201514357833.407——————
6 Masataka Nashida 2016–20183491601827.468——————
7 Yosuke Hiraishi 2018–present8037412.474——————

References

General
  • 東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス 年度別成績 (2005–2017) [Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Results By Year (2005–2012)] (in Japanese). Nippon Professional Baseball. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
  • "Hall of Famers List". The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
Specific
  1. ↑ "Manager: Definition | Dictionary.com". Dictionary.Reference.com. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. 2006. Retrieved February 24, 2009.
  2. ↑ Dickson, P. (2009). The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third ed.). W.W. Norton & Co. p. 530. ISBN 978-0-393-06681-4.
  3. ↑ "Golden Eagles throw in the Tao". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. September 27, 2005. Retrieved September 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Eagles want to hire Brown: sources". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. October 24, 2009. Retrieved December 13, 2009.
  5. ↑ "Eagles eye Hoshino: sources". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. October 6, 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Hoshino makes return with Eagles". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. October 28, 2010. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Eagles want Hoshino for third year". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. August 8, 2012. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ Coskrey, Jason (November 3, 2013). "Eagles blank Giants in Game 7, capture first Japan Series title". The Japan Times. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Eagles manager Hoshino to step down at season's end". The Japan Times. Kyodo News. September 14, 2014. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
Central League Pacific League
Tsuyoshi Yoda (Chunichi Dragons) Tadahito Iguchi (Chiba Lotte Marines)
Akihiro Yano (Hanshin Tigers) Kimiyasu Kudoh (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks)
Koichi Ogata (Hiroshima Toyo Carp) Hideki Kuriyama (Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters)
Junji Ogawa (Tokyo Yakult Swallows) Norifumi Nishimura (Orix Buffaloes)
Alex Ramírez (Yokohama DeNA BayStars) Hatsuhiko Tsuji (Saitama Seibu Lions)
Tatsunori Hara (Yomiuri Giants) Yosuke Hiraishi (Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles)
Defunct teams:
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