Saturday

• 2nd round draft pick Kentaro Nishikawa worked out with the Ichi-gun team and threw forty-five pitches in the bullpen. [Sports Hochi]

Friday

• Takuya Asao threw 54 pitches to Masahiro Araki and Masahiko Morino during batting practice on Friday. Kazuki Yoshimi threw 50 pitches to Takeshi Yamasaki and Motonobu Tanishige. (Sponichi)
• Kenshin Kawakami faced Kazuhiro Wada and Takeshi Yamasaki and allowed twelve could-be hits on forty-six pitches.  He also topped out at 137km/h (Sponichi)  Or ten could-be hits. (Sanspo)
• Jorge Sosa faced Ryosuke Hirata, Yohei Oshima, and Atsushi Fujii during batting practice and threw thirty-nine pitches and did not allow a hit.  He also topped out at 147km/h.  Two outs were recorded in the outfield. (Sports Hochi Osaka)