The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles have completed 19 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) since their inaugural season in 2005.[1] The team was formed to fill the void left in the Pacific League when the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and the Orix BlueWave merged into one team during the 2004 NPB realignment. Through 2023, they have played 2,688 regular season games, winning 1,220, losing 1,390, and tying 78 for a winning percentage of .467.[1] The Eagles have also a combined record of 15–14–1 (.517) in post-season and Japan Series play. The team is based in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.
W | Number of regular season wins |
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L | Number of regular season losses |
T | Number of regular season ties |
GB | Games behind from league's first-place team[a] |
ROY | Rookie of the Year |
MVP | Most Valuable Player |
ESA | Eiji Sawamura Award |
MSA | Matsutaro Shoriki Award |
^ | Playoff berth |
* | Pacific League champions |
† | Japan Series champions |
Statistics current through the 2024 season
Season | League | Regular season | Postseason (Climax & Japan Series) |
Manager(s) | Awards | Home attendance |
Notes | |||||||
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Finish | W | L | T | Win% | GB | |||||||||
2005 | Pacific | 6th | 38 | 97 | 1 | .281 | 51½ | Yasushi Tao | 977,104 | [1][2][3] | ||||
2006 | Pacific | 6th | 47 | 85 | 4 | .356 | 33 | Katsuya Nomura | 951,723 | [1][3] | ||||
2007 | Pacific | 4th | 67 | 75 | 2 | .472 | 13½ | Masahiro Tanaka (ROY) | 1,117,369 | [1][4][3] | ||||
2008 | Pacific | 5th | 65 | 76 | 3 | .461 | 11½ | Hisashi Iwakuma (ESA) Hisashi Iwakuma (MVP) |
1,149,061 | [1][5][6][3] | ||||
2009 | Pacific | 2nd^ | 77 | 66 | 1 | .538 | 5½ | Won First Stage (SoftBank) 2–0 Lost Second Stage (Nippon Ham) 1–4[b] |
1,203,169 | [1][7][8][3] | ||||
2010 | Pacific | 6th | 62 | 79 | 3 | .440 | 15 | Marty Brown | 1,141,640 | [1][3] | ||||
2011 | Pacific | 5th | 66 | 71 | 7 | .482 | 23½ | Senichi Hoshino | Masahiro Tanaka (ESA) | 1,168,188 | [1][5][3] | |||
2012 | Pacific | 4th | 67 | 67 | 10 | .500 | 7½ | 1,177,193 | [1][3] | |||||
2013† | Pacific* | 1st^ | 82 | 59 | 3 | .582 | — | Won final stage (Lotte) 4–1[b] Won Japan Series (Yomiuri) 4–3 |
Masahiro Tanaka (ESA) Senichi Hoshino (MSA) Masahiro Tanaka (MVP) Takahiro Norimoto (ROY) |
1,231,087 | [1][9][10][11] [4][5][6][3] | |||
2014 | Pacific | 6th | 64 | 80 | 0 | .444 | 17 | 1,450,233 | [1][3] | |||||
2015 | Pacific | 6th | 57 | 83 | 3 | .407 | 33½ | Hiromoto Okubo | 1,524,149 | [1][3] | ||||
2016 | Pacific | 5th | 62 | 78 | 3 | .443 | 25 | Masataka Nashida | 1,620,961 | [1][3] | ||||
2017 | Pacific | 3rd^ | 77 | 63 | 3 | .550 | 15½ | Won First Stage (Seibu) 2–1 Lost final stage (SoftBank) 2–4[b] |
1,770,108 | [1][12][13][3] | ||||
2018 | Pacific | 6th | 58 | 82 | 3 | .414 | 29½ | Masataka Nashida Yosuke Hiraishi |
Kazuki Tanaka (ROY) | 1,726,004 | [1][4][3] | |||
2019 | Pacific | 3rd^ | 71 | 68 | 4 | .511 | 7½ | Lost First Stage (SoftBank) 1–2 | Yosuke Hiraishi | 1,821,785 | [1][14][15] | |||
2020 | Pacific | 4th | 55 | 57 | 8 | .491 | 16½ | Hajime Miki | 236,084[c] | [1][16] | ||||
2021 | Pacific | 3rd^ | 66 | 62 | 15 | .516 | 5½ | Lost First Stage (Lotte) 0–1–1 | Kazuhisa Ishii | 615,237[c] | [1][17][18] | |||
2022 | Pacific | 4th | 69 | 71 | 3 | .493 | 6½ | 1,331,131 | [1][19] | |||||
2023 | Pacific | 4th | 70 | 71 | 2 | .496 | 17 | 1,358,512 | [1][20] | |||||
2024 | Pacific | 4th | 67 | 72 | 4 | .482 | 23½ | Toshiaki Imae | 1,642,371 | [1][21] | ||||
Total:20 seasons, 2,831 games | 1,287 | 1,462 | 82 | .468 | Pennants:1, Championships:1 |