2021 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season

2021 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
2021 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
League	Pacific League
Ballpark	Fukuoka PayPay Dome
Record	60-62-21 (.492)
League place	4th
Parent company	SoftBank Group
General manager	Sugihiko Mikasa
Manager	Kimiyasu Kudo
	Seasons

The 2021 Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks season was the 83rd season of the franchise in Nippon Professional Baseball, their 16th season under SoftBank Group, their 32nd season in Fukuoka, and their 28th season in Fukuoka PayPay Dome. This season was Kimiyasu Kudo's last season managing the Hawks, after a 6 year run. 2021 was also the first time the Hawks missed qualifying for the Climax Series play-offs after the 2013 season, and the first time they failed to maintain a .500 winning percentage since 2008.

Regular season

The Hawks failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2013, going 60-62-21 with a .492 winning percentage, barely going below .500 winning percentage.

2021 Pacific League standings ^[1]
Pos	Team	GP	W	L	T	.Pct	GB	Home	Road
1	Orix Buffaloes	143	70	55	18	.560	—	38-22-12	32–33–6
2	Chiba Lotte Marines	143	67	57	19	.540	2½	33-32-7	34–25–12
3	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	143	66	62	15	.514	5½	31-33-8	35–29–7
4	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	143	60	62	21	.492	8½	31-29-11	29–33–10
5	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	143	55	68	20	.447	14	25-36-10	30–32–10
6	Saitama Seibu Lions	143	55	70	18	.440	15	30-34-7	25–36–11

Roster

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks roster
First team		Second team
Pitchers 10 Naoyuki Uwasawa 11 Yūki Tsumori 16 Nao Higashihama 19 Ryōsuke Ohtsu 27 Shunsuke Iwai 29 Ryūsei Ohe 35 Liván Moinelo 39 Shūto Ogata 40 Kazuki Sugiyama 42 Yūsuke Itoh 47 Tomohisa Ohzeki 48 Kouya Fujii 49 Haru Matsumoto 63 Darwinzon Hernández 64 Taiga Kamichatani 66 Yūki Matsumoto 68 Hikaru Kimura Catchers 00 Riku Watanabe 12 Hiroki Minei 45 Kenta Tanigawara 55 Sōichirō Ishizuka 62 Takashi Umino	Infielders 0 Hikaru Kawase 4 Jeter Downs 5 Hotaka Yamakawa 6 Kenta Imamiya 7 Akira Nakamura 8 Taisei Makihara 24 Ryōya Kurihara 25 Yūdai Shōji 99 Isami Nomura Outfielders 3 Kensuke Kondoh 9 Yūki Yanagita 23 Ukyō Shūtō 31 Tomoya Masaki 32 Tatsuru Yanagimachi 44 Yoshiyasu Sasagawa 57 Riku Ogata 61 Yūto Kawamura Manager 90 Hiroki Kokubo Coaches 94 Shinji Kurano (Chief pitching/Head coordinator) 72 Kenichi Wakatabe (Bullpen pitching) 71 Kenichi Nakata (Assistant bullpen pitching) 93 Arihito Muramatsu (Chief fielding) 78 Yūya Hasegawa (Batting/skill) 80 Yūichi Honda (Infield defense/base running/strategy) 79 Takayuki Ōnishi (Outfield defense/base running/strategy) 87 Tōru Hosokawa (Battery)	Pitchers 2 Carter Stewart Jr. 13 Ryūta Inagawa 18 Hsu Jo-Hsi 20 Taito Murakami 26 Gōta Suzuki 28 Shun Antoku 30 Toshiya Nakamura 41 Yūgo Maeda 50 Masato Sagara 51 Jun Maeda 53 Ryō Ohyama 54 Roberto Osuna 58 Taisei Kimura 60 Kazuo Ohno 69 Shunsuke Iwasaki Catchers 65 Yūtarō Fujita	Infielders 33 Ryūta Hirose 36 Itua Ikhine 43 Tomoya Inoue 46 Shinjirō Uno 52 Yūto Akihiro 56 Takanori Takahashi 67 Sōma Ishimi Outfielders 77 Keita Yamamoto Manager 88 Kazumi Saitoh (Second squad) Coaches 73 Takashi Ogasawara (Chief pitching) 86 Masato Okumura (Pitching) 74 Shigeru Morikasa (Batting) 91 Keisuke Kaneko (Infield defense/base running) 96 Ryūma Kidokoro (Outfield defense/base running) 84 Hiroaki Takaya (Battery) Third squad 92 Motoi Ōkoshi (Manager) 97 Felipe (Chief pitching) 76 Hayato Terahara (Pitching) 75 Noriyoshi Ohmichi (Batting) 82 Tomoki Takata (Infield defense/base running) 98 Fumikazu Takanami (Outfield defense/base running) 83 Masaumi Shimizu (Battery) Fourth squad 014 Takashi Sasagawa (Chief/defense/base running) 013 Kazuhisa Makita (Pitching) 018 Masahiro Nakatani (Batting) Coordinators 012 Hidetaka Kawagoe (General farm pitching) 020 Jyunji Hoshino (Pitching) 023 Hisao Arakane (General fielding) 019 Kōichi Sekikawa (Fielding) 022 Hiroyuki Mori (Fielding) 021 Tatsuya Ide (Fielding) 011 Hiroshi Narahara (General fielding advisor)
Development Players
120 Takehiro Hasegawa (P) 126 Yūwa Miyasato (P) 128 Shinichirō Kawano (P) 132 Tōya Kawaguchi (P) 134 Kenichi Murata (P) 135 Alexander Armenta (P) 136 Fūga Ohtake (P) 137 Kenshirō Tsukayama (P) 138 Yūta Aihara (P) 139 Sanshirō Izaki (P) 140 Kōichirō Okada (P) 141 Ryōtarō Sawayanagi (P) 142 Haruto Fujiwara (P) 145 Hammond (P) 146 Ryūsei Ohya (P) 148 Takuma Yamasaki (P) 149 Taiga Kumagai (P) 152 Dan Shioji (P) 153 Chang Chun-Wei (P) 155 Renta Nagasaki (P) 156 Luis Rodríguez (P) 157 Sōta Tanoue (P) 160 Keishin Nagamizu (P) 161 Kaito Uchino (P) 162 Jumpei Okaue (P) 163 Akito Sasaki (P) 164 Hokuto (P) 169 Yūsei Tobita (P) 176 Darío Sarduy (P) 125 Sou Ohtomo (C) 130 Kōta Makihara (C) 133 Kanta Ikeda (C) 171 Ryōta Morishima (C) 121 Zairen (IF) 122 Keio Fujino (IF) 124 Shūji Kuwahara (IF) 127 Yūki Hirose (IF) 129 Kyōshirō Sakura (IF) 131 Kōki Nakazawa (IF) 144 Ayumu Ezaki (IF) 150 Reo Ōhashi (IF) 159 Kyōgo Yamashita (IF) 170 Ayuma Nishio (IF) 174 Jonathan Moreno (IF) 175 David Almonte (IF) 123 Shūya Ohizumi (OF) 143 Kōha Gyofu (OF) 147 Hayato Kinoshita (OF) 151 Takahiro Suzuki (OF) 154 Ikumi (OF) 158 Emil (OF) 166 Kaito Shigematsu (OF) 168 Kōta Satoh (OF) 173 José Ozuna (OF)
Updated March 1, 2026		→ All NPB rosters

References

^ "2021 Pacific League standings". Nippon Professional Baseball.

[1] "2021 Pacific League standings". Nippon Professional Baseball.

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