Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
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Nippon Professional Baseball (2005–present)
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| Year established | 2005 | ||||
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| Pacific League pennants | 1 (2013) | ||||
| Japan Series championships | 1 (2013) | ||||
| Colors | Red, Gold |
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| Retired numbers | 10 | ||||
| Ownership | Rakuten Inc. | ||||
| Manager | Masataka Nashida | ||||
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Nippon Professional Baseball (2005–present)
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (東北楽天ゴールデンイーグルス Tōhoku Rakuten Gōruden Īgurusu?) is a baseball team based in Sendai, in Miyagi Prefecture, which plays in the Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball Pacific League since 2005. They were Japan Series champions in 2013 after defeating the Yomiuri Giants.
The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix BlueWave and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment, leaving the Pacific League with five teams, causing the biggest crisis in the traditional two-league structure in NPB and caused the first player strike in Japanese professional baseball history. The team is owned by the Internet shopping company Rakuten.
The team's manager was Katsuya Nomura, the oldest manager in NPB history, but he was replaced after the 2009 season by Marty Brown, the former manager of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Brown was in turn replaced by Senichi Hoshino after a last place finish in 2010. Masataka Nashida has been the team's manager since 2016.
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