Fighters In Arizona, 2019 Edition

For the fourth consecutive year the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters are doing the first part of their spring camp in Arizona.  Like last year it will be at Salt River Fields At Talking Stick in Scottsdale, the spring training home of the Rockies and Diamondbacks.  The team will be there from February 1st to the 12th.  Their schedule is available on the team's website (in Japanese of course) but the important days to note are off days on the 3rd and 8th, an inter-squad game (Red vs White) on the 9th and a game against the KBO's NC Dinos on the 11th.  Both games will be at 12:30.

The Fighters announced who all is coming today.  I've translated the list (and hopefully gotten all the names correct).  There's a couple notable newcomers to the team on the roster - former Orix Buffaloes ace Chihiro Kaneko and former CPBL star Po-Jung Wang.

Number	Player/Coach	Category
1	Saitoh, Yuki	Pitcher
2	Sugiya, Kenshi	Infielder
5	Ota, Taishi	Outfielder
6	Nakata, Sho	Infielder
7	Nishikawa, Haruki	Outfielder
8	Kondoh, Kensuke	Outfielder
9	Nakashima, Takuya	Infielder
12	Matsumoto, Go	Infielder
14	Kato, Takayuki	Pitcher
15	Uwasawa, Naoyuki	Pitcher
16	Arihara, Kohei	Pitcher
17	Urano, Hiroshi	Pitcher
19	Kaneko, Chihiro	Pitcher
20	Uehara, Kenta	Pitcher
21	Kiyomiya, Kotaro	Infielder
22	Tsuruoka, Shinya	Coach
23	Watanabe, Ryo	Infielder
25	Miyanishi, Naoki	Pitcher
26	Asama, Daiki	Outfielder
27	Martinez, Nick	Pitcher
28	Hancock, Justin	Pitcher
29	Iguchi, Kazutomo	Pitcher
30	Kagiya, Yohei	Pitcher
32	Yachi, Ryota	Infielder
33	Barbato, Johnny	Pitcher
34	Hori, Mizuki	Pitcher
35	Nishimura, Takahiro	Pitcher
36	Nakamura, Masaru	Pitcher
38	Ishii, Kazunari	Infielder
39	Akiyoshi, Ryo	Pitcher
41	Rodriguez, Bryan	Pitcher
42	Kurobane, Toshiki	Catcher
45	Hiranuma, Shota	Infielder
49	Kumon, Katsuhiko	Pitcher
51	Ishikawa, Naoya	Pitcher
52	Miyadei, Kohei	Pitcher
54	Tamai, Taisho	Pitcher
57	Sugiura, Toshihiro	Pitcher
58	Yokoo, Toshitake	Infielder
67	Kishisato, Ryosuke	Outfielder
68	Ishikawa, Ryo	Catcher
73	Ogata, Koichi	Coach
74	Takahashi, Noriyuki	Coach
75	Kawana, Shinichi	Coach
79	Shiroishi, Noriyuki	Coach
80	Kuriyama, Hideki	Manager
84	Atsuzawa, Kazuyuki	Coach
88	Kaneko, Makoto	Coach
92	Kida, Masao	Coach
99	Wang, Po-Jung	Outfielder

There are also three KBO teams training in Arizona this year.  The KT Wiz and the afore-mentioned NC Dinos will be training in Tucson from the end of January until March 8th.  KT will be at the Kino Sports Complex while I assume that NC will be Hi Corbett Field but I don't know that for sure.  The newly renamed Kiwoom Heroes (formerly Nexen) will be in Peoria from January 30th to February 18th and then in Tucson for some period of time afterward.  

In addition the defending KBO champion SK Wyverns will be in Vero Beach, Florida from January 30th to February 24th.

I don't think there's a CPBL team training in the US this year but I could be wrong.

Thanks to MyKBO.net for the information on where the KBO teams are training.