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Hisanobu Watanabe does not think he will be able to decide on an opening day starter until about two weeks before opening day.

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Potential upcoming starters:

• Yusei Kikuchi, practice game vs LG Twins, February 29.
• Hideaki Wakui, exhibition game vs Yomiuri Giants, March 3. Coud face Toshiya Sugiuchi (YOM).
• Takayuki Kishi, exhibition game vs Yomiuri Giants, March 4.

The team had the day off today.

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Yusei Kikuchi and Enrique Gonzalez worked out on their day off today.

Gonzalez could pitch in a practice game on Tuesday against the Chiba Lotte Marines.

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Fumiya Nishiguchi was diagnosed with the flu today.

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Kazuhisa Makita threw about thirty warm-up pitches before Sunday's practice game start against the Orix Buffaloes.  That is up from his usual ten pitches when making relief outings.  Makita told reporters he might try throwing a bit more for his next start.

Of the twenty-eight pitches Hideaki Wakui threw during a practice game against the Orix Buffaloes on Saturday, five were fork balls.  Wakui has been spending a lot of time working on the fork during spring camp this year.

Kazuhisa Makita and Kazuhisa Ishii are scheduled to pitch in Sunday's exhibition game against the Orix Buffaloes.

The Lions arrived in Kochi today from Miyazaki and held a two hour workout at Kochi Haruno Baseball Stadium.  The team will will remain in Kochi through to March 1.

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Takayuki Kishi is scheduled to start Saturday's game against the Orix Buffaloes.

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The Lions currently have twenty pitchers at Ichi-gun camp.  They have six games over the next week or so and will drop that down to twelve.

The Lions closed out their spring camp in Nango, Miyazaki today.  Hisanobu Watanabe told reporters he wanted to give everyone an MVP for their hard work during Miyazaki camp.

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Today's practice game against Hiroshima was canceled due to rain.  The two teams are scheduled to meet again on Thursday.

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1st round draft pick Ken Togame was supposed to start today's game.  He will get a chance to pitch on Thursday.  Togame did not pitch in the bullpen today and instead did some long throwing at a about thirty meters.

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Chris Carter is thinking about using the C.C. Lemon theme song as his intro music.  Seems his wife will have final say on which song he uses.

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The Lions received 1,912 entries for their Lions Uniform Design Contest.  The deadline was February 20.

The Ichi-gun Lions had the day off today.

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Hideaki Wakui told reporters on Sunday that the thought the Nippon Ham Fighters' opening day starter was going to be Masaru Takeda.

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Today was the last day of the fourth block of spring camp for the Ichi-gun Lions.  The Ichi-gun Lions have the day off tomorrow.

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Team owner Takashi Goto observed Nango camp today.

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Takeya Nakamura used a bat that weighs 950 grams during Saturday's game against the Lotte Giants.