Nippon Professional Baseball
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
- Carter Stewart Jr.PInjured list
Right knee pain (Aug 13); aiming to resume bullpen sessions
- Ryuta InagawaPOut
Left knee meniscus surgery (Jul 29)
- Chang Chun-weiPInjured list
Right elbow discomfort (Aug 13); making rehab appearances
- Haruto FujiwaraPInjured list
Right elbow injury (May 21)
- Shun AntokuPOut
Tommy John surgery (Feb 13)
- ArmetaPInjured list
Left elbow conditioning management
- Koya FujiiPOut
Tommy John plus joint clean-up surgery (Feb 25)
- Masato SagaraPOut
Tommy John surgery (Nov 30 last year)
- Takehiro HasegawaPOut
Lumbar disc herniation surgery (Apr 1)
- Toya KawaguchiPOut
Tommy John surgery (Apr 15)
- Ukyo ShutoOFInjured list
Left knee injury (Sep 12) · Expected return: Aiming to return for the postseason
- Soma Ishimi-Out
Right patellar tendon surgery (Aug 4)
- Keita Yamamoto-Out
Right elbow internal brace surgery (Aug 7)
Probable starter: Sei Matsumoto. Pitcher Ryo Oyama deactivated Sep 24.
Orix Buffaloes
- Shunpeita YamashitaPOut
Right elbow Tommy John surgery; rehabbing
- Kohei AzumaPOut
Right elbow ligament surgery (Sep 5, recent)
- Naruki TeranishiPInjured list
Left hamstring (deactivated Aug 16)
- Ryuhei SotaniPInjured list
Left elbow discomfort (deactivated Sep 18)
- Hiroya MiyagiPOut
Left elbow ligament reconstruction surgery (performed in the US)
- Daiki TajimaPInjured list
Left elbow flexor injury (deactivated Sep 15)
- Hitomi HondaPInjured list
Right vertebral artery dissection (hit by a batted ball; unusual injury)
- Tomoya MoriCOut
Left wrist surgery; out for the season
- Taishi HirokaIFOut
Lumbar disc herniation surgery
Probable starter: Chen Mu-kuo. Several other pitchers are out after repeat Tommy John surgery and similar (Atsuya Fujikawa, Kaede Yokoyama, Atsuya Kogita, Yuito Mae). Pitchers Reo Yamaguchi and Hiroshi (surname) were deactivated after giving up runs on Sep 21, and Kazuma Sato was recalled.