Nippon Professional Baseball
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
- Carter Stewart Jr.PInjured list
Right knee pain (Aug 13) · Expected return: Aiming to resume bullpen sessions at month-end
- Ukyo ShutoOFInjured list
Injury behind left knee (Sep 12)
- Soma IshimiIFOut
Bilateral patellar tendinopathy, surgery Aug 4 · Expected return: 3–4 months after surgery
- Keita YamamotoOFOut
Right elbow pain, internal brace surgery (Aug 7) · Expected return: 6–8 months expected
- Tomoya MasakiOFOut
[Sep 20 notice] Abruptly deactivated under the infectious-disease exception; manager Kokubo: "don't know when he'll be back" (slugger chasing 30 HR)
- Yugo MaedaPOut
[Sep 20 notice] Deactivated alongside (2nd-year lefty, first career win Sep 13)
Losing Masaki and Maeda directly hits today's lineup. Trade with DeNA (May 12), signed foreign player Jackson Rutledge (Jul 30), Akira Nakamura (36) retired (Jul 3)
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
- Shota WatanabePOut
Right elbow cleanup surgery (Aug 18, 2025) + foot os trigonum removal (Nov 13, 2025)
- Wataru KarashimaPOut
Left elbow cleanup surgery (Oct 3, 2025)
- Yuki HayashiPOut
Left elbow surgery + ulna fracture fixation
- Takuma MatsudaPOut
Right elbow olecranon stress fracture fixation (May 29, 2025)
- Luke VoitIF/OFOut
Right elbow UCL damage + tendon tear, internal brace surgery (Aug 1)
Pitcher Ryota Takinaka activated Sep 20 — could be on today's roster. Signed Yonathan Florimon (Aug 25), Jhonny Marte (ex-Chunichi, Jul 6) and José Ureña (Jan 14)