The Chiba Lotte Marines have signed Carlos Rosa (27) and Hayden Penn (27) to one-year extensions, each worth an estimated 58M yen.

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Carlos Rosa - 2011 Season

Hayden Penn - 2011 Season

Hayden Penn returned to the US today and there's a good chance he'll return to the Chiba Lotte Marines in 2012.

2011 Season

Sponichi mentions that the Chiba Lotte Marines have decided to hold onto Hayden Penn and Carlos Rosa for the 2012 season.

The jury is still out on Bill Murphy and Jose Castillo.

UPDATE @ 9:58am - Nikkan Sports notes that Penn's contract has already been extended and that Rosa has another year on his contract.  They also think there's a good chance Murphy and Castillo won't return.

Nikkan Sports is reporting that Tae-Kyun Kim could miss the rest of the season with what appears to be a fairly severe back problem.  An unnamed club rep said, "His back is apparently in pretty bad shape.  He might get better with treatment, but a return this year might not be possible."

The article also mentions that Hayden Penn might be 2-3 days away from picking up a baseball and that he's currently scheduled to return to Japan in mid-July.

UPDATE @ 3:52pm - The Marines hold an option on Kim for the 2012 season (2 year deal + a club option for a third).  An unnamed club rep told reporters that since he was a foreign player, he had to show he could put up results before they exercised the option.  So it would seem Kim's option year could be in jeopardy depending on whether or not he's able to make it back this season.

Sponichi also has a slightly longer quote regarding Kim's current condition:

His back is apparently in pretty bad shape.  He might get better with treatment, but it'll probably takes 2 months after that until he's ready to return.  He might not able to make it back this season.

Kim is schedule to get his back examined and a lot will depend on what the doctors tell him.

Hayden Penn returned to the US today in order to get his left elbow cleaned out.  While Penn most likely won't be able to throw for about a month, he probably return to Japan after about 20 days.

In other team injury-related news:

Tae-Kyun Kim was taken off the active roster today with a sprain in his right wrist (the pain wasn't going).  Lotte is hopeful he'll be able to return in 10 days.

Bill Murphy and Hayden Penn are expected to return to Japan today and rejoin the team tomorrow.  The Marines also don't seem to be too worried about the condition the two players will return in as it seems they received e-mail from both players saying that they kept up their training schedules (bullpens, running).

Tae-Kyun Kim will be returning to Japan on the 27th.  Kim has been staying sharp by practicing with the Lotte Giants' (KBO) minor league team.

Bill Murphy and Hayden Penn will return sometime early next month.

The Chiba Lotte Marines announced today that they gave Tae-Kyun Kim, Hayden Penn, and Bill Murphy permission to return to their respective countries; all three should are expected back in about a week.

Akira Ishikawa (operations director) - "We have some time since there will be a delay to the season.  We gave them permission to leave after considering their families and their emotional states."

The Seibu Lions also decided to allow Ming-Chieh Hsu to return to Taiwan for 2-3 days.

I'll keep this updated throughout the day.  I'm hoping that all players and team personnel have been able to contact their families by now.

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Chunichi Dragons

Hiromitsu Ochiai is from Akita and told reporters that his parents were fine and that his family in Tokyo were fine as well.

Tony Blanco was about to take a shower after practice at Nagoya Stadium yesterday when the earthquake hit and rushed outside with just a towel wrapped around his waist.

Yomiuri Giants

Takanori Hoshi is from Miyagi and was able to contact his family.

Takahiro Suzuki is from Soma, Fukushima and learned from his younger brother that his family was safe.

A number of players, including Shun Tono and Shigeyuki Furuki were working out at Giants Stadium yesterday when the earthquake hit.  They all rushed out to the parking lot.  Cracks were found in a stairwell at the indoor facilities.

Yakult Swallows

Yoshinori Sato is from Sendai, Miyagi and used a phone in the press box yesterday because his mobile phone wouldn't dial out.  He was able to contact his family and was relieved to find them safe.

Kazuhiro Hatakeyama is from Hanamaki, Iwate and was able to contact his family.

Hiroshima Carp

Kenta Kurihara (from Tendo, Yamagata) and Tsubasa Aizawa (Ibaraki) were all able to confirm the safety of their families.

GM Kiyoaki Suzuki told reporters yesterday that there will still some players that haven't been able to contact their families.

Yokohama Bay Stars

Shinji Niinuma is from Ishinomaki, Miyagi and hasn't been able to get in touch with his family.  He told reporters he keeps getting busy signals and is really concerned because his family lives near the water.

A number of players, including Daisuke Miura, Takehiro Ishikawa, Hichori Morimoto, Tomokazu Oka, and Niinuma, spent the night at Yokohama Stadium due to traffic conditions.

Softbank Hawks

Toru Hosokawa is from Aomori and was able to contact his family.

Tadashi Settsu was worried about his father that works in Sendai.

Yuki Shimooki is from Iwate and was able to contact his family and friends.

Seibu Lions

Yusei Kikuchi is from Iwate and couldn't contact his family and friends yesterday and was able to get in touch with his family.

Takayuki Kishi is from Sendai and was able to contact his parents and sister, but only by e-mail.

Chiba Lotte Marines

Yasuhiko Yabuta, Bill Murphy, Hayden Penn, and an interpreter were on their way back to Tokyo from Akashi, but had to spent the night at Nagoya.

QVC Marine Field appears to be ok, but there seems to be some problems with liquefaction in the parking lots.  The stadium was also apparently closed off to the general public out of concern of land subsidence.

Nippon Ham Fighters

The entire team had the day off yesterday and was staying at a hotel in Gifu (most players were in rooms on or above the 20th or 25th floor (accounts differ based on reports) of a 43 story building.  Atsunori Inaba was soaking in the tub in a hotel room on the 27th floor when the earth quake struck and told reporters he thought he was going to die.

The Fighters were worried about Yuki Saito (1st round) because he didn't reply back to e-mail messages that were sent out by the club's PR department.  It wasn't until 5 hours later that his reply made it back to the Fighters (he probably didn't get the message right away).

The Ni-gun team that was in Yokosuka for a Kyoiku League game against Yokohama, had to spend the night in the Yokohama Stadium player locker rooms because of traffic.  The team left Bay Stars Stadium in Yokosuka at 3:00pm and hit severe traffic.  At around 7:30pm, the team decided to head to Yokohama Stadium out of concern for the players and didn't arrive until 11:40pm.

Orix Buffaloes

Takashi Kamoshida is from Ibaraki and was able to contact his parents -- seems they had to spend the night in their car because their house was a mess.

Fumihiro Suzuki is from Fukushima and his parent's home suffered damage from the quake.  Suzuki couldn't contact his family, but his sister was able to get through and told him that everyone was safe (his mother mother and grandmother were at home but his father was away on a business trip).

Rakuten Eagles

Players like Masahiro Tanaka, Hisashi Iwakuma, Satoshi Nagai, Darrell Rasner, Kenta Satake, Shinya Okamoto were on a Shinkansen heading to Tokyo from Akashi.  They all had to spend the night in Nagoya.

About 80 players, coaches, and staff were at Kleenex Stadium when the earthquake hit and they all gathered in the parking lot outside.  There were some people with a few cuts and bruises, but no major injuries.  By around 7:30pm, all players were able to confirm that their families were safe.  The club was not able to check on the stadium for structural damage yesterday.

About 30-40 people camped out in tents that were set up on the field at Kleenex Stadium.

The Eagles will be giving their player the next two days (12th and 13th) to check on their families.

Kleenex Stadium will be open to people looking to recharge their mobile phones until 9pm today.  The stadium will be open again tomorrow between 9am and 9pm.  Bathrooms on the second floor concourse have also bee opened up.

During yesterday's exhibition games:

At Yokohama Stadium: the game was stopped at 14:47 and called 16 minutes later.  Fans, players, staff...  The field was opened up to everyone at 15:22 for their safety.  3,756 fans were in attendance.  It wasn't until about an hour later that players were able to go to the locker rooms.  FWIW: this was also the day the new turf at the stadium was unveiled.

Sources:

由規、記者席から仙台の家族の無事確認 (Daily Sports)

佑ちゃん無事…発生から５時間後に確認 (Daily Sports)

稲葉、都内ホテルで「死ぬかと思った」 (Daily Sports)

マー君ＨＰで「無事」名古屋で降車 (Daily Sports)

恐怖…悲鳴…横浜球場「助けて～」 (Daily Sports)

揺れるハマスタ…ナインもファンも避難 (Nikkan Sports)

オリ・鴨志田沈痛…茨城の実家に被害 (Daily Sports)

オリックス鈴木捕手、福島の実家が半壊 (Daily Sports)

ソフトＢ移動に影響、メールで安否確認 (Nikkan Sports)

西武菊池、岩手実家と連絡つかず「心配」 (Nikkan Sports)

マリン液状化…ロッテ堀氏の引退試合中止 (Nikkan Sports)

楽天家族優先、安否確認でオープン戦中止 (Nikkan Sports)

オリックス広報の実家被害に (Nikkan Sports)

広島栗原山形の家族とつながらない (Nikkan Sports)

ハム中田地震に恐怖「死ぬかと思った」 (Nikkan Sports)

Ｋスタ宮城グラウンドにテント張り市民避難 (Sanspo)

試合中止の２日間の行動を選手に一任 (Sanspo)

日本ハム２軍帰れずハマスタロッカー１泊 (Sanspo)

Ｇ・東野ヒヤリ、室内練習場階段にヒビ (Sanspo)

広島・栗原、会沢家族の無事を確認 (Daily Sports)

【中日】秋田出身・落合監督も絶句 (Nikkan Sports)

【西武】仙台出身の岸「試合どころじゃ」 (Nikkan Sports)

西武・岸と雄星、実家の無事を確認 (Sanspo)

Ｋスタ宮城で携帯電話充電できます (Daily Sports)

中日ブランコ　シャワー中飛び出した (Nikkan Sports)

横浜・三浦帰宅できずハマスタで夜を明かす (Daily Sports)

巨人・鈴木、地元・福島の被害に言葉失う (Sanspo)

ロッテがＯＰ戦中止、球場周辺で液状化現象 (Sanspo)

This post will be updated throughout the day.

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Yesterday's intra-squad game:

Yuta Omine threw two shutout innings for the reds (entered the game in the 3rd) while walking 1 and allowing 1 hit.  He only managed to start 1 of 8 batters he faced with a strike.

Takashi Ogino started at short and batted 2nd for the white team.  He struggled a bit on defense: in the 4th, he made a fielding error on a grounder between third and short (hit by Ishimine); and in the 8th, he bounced a throw to first on a routine grounder hit by Tae-Kyun Kim.  Seems the throwing problems might be related to his knee not being 100% yet (Ogino told reporters it was around 85%).

Shota Koike (4th round) was the starting DH and batted 10th.  His infield single in the last scheduled inning (8th), with runners on first and third with 1 out, won the game for the whites.  The hit came off Tetsuya Yamamoto.

Shota Ishimine (1st round) started in right and batted 2nd for the reds.  He went 0-for-2 at the plate (reached base twice on an error and walk), but made a nice play on a line drive in the 3rd inning of the bat of Koike and also stole a base in the 7th.

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Makoto Imaoka spent time taking BP in the cages today and told reporters that his back was feeling fine.

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Yuta Omine threw 70 pitches in the bullpen today.  Omine wasn't planning on throwing quite as much, but kept on going because he had a good feel for the ball.  Regarding his outing yesterday, Omine said that he was throwing with his upper body too much.

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Hayden Penn threw 102 pitches in the bullpen today.  He apparently showed better control than during his situational BP outing on the 15th (previous reports mentioned he walked 3 of 6 batters, Nikkan Sports claims 4 of 6).