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The Samsung Lions Futures Team is promoting exchanges with prestigious overseas clubs to discover promising players and improve their skills. This exchange match was made possible through the relationship between Futures coach Ryoji Moriyama and the Softbank team.
The professional baseball Samsung Lions Futures (2nd team) will play an exchange match with the prestigious Softbank Hawks of the Japanese Professional Baseball (NPB).
The Samsung club announced on the 29th that the Futures team will visit Fukuoka, Japan for 14 nights and 15 days from the 1st to the 15th of next month to conduct an exchange schedule including 5 practice games with the Softbank 3rd team.
The team will play three games at Mizuho PayPay Dome Fukuoka, the home stadium of Softbank's first team, from October 5 to 7, and two games at Tamahome Stadium Chikugo, the home stadium of the second team, on the 13th and 14th.
In addition, two practice games against Japanese business teams are also scheduled.
In addition to the game, we plan to hold joint training with Softbank's 3rd Army from October 2nd to 4th.
This exchange match was made possible through the relationship between Samsung Futures coach Ryoji Moriyama and the Softbank team.
Samsung plans to improve the skills of promising young players and allow them to directly experience Japan's advanced baseball infrastructure and training system.
An official from the Samsung club said, "It is meaningful to have an exchange match with Japan's prestigious Softbank club," and added, "We will continue to maintain a close cooperative relationship by continuing exchanges with the Softbank club in various ways."
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The Samsung Lions Futures Team can expect to improve the skills of its players and strengthen its international competitiveness through this exchange match.
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