Daiju Nomura

Daiju Nomura (野村 大樹) is a Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in NPB for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Early baseball career
Nomura participated in the 2nd grade spring the 89th Japanese High School Baseball Invitational Tournament, as a Third baseman of the Waseda Jitsugyo High School with Kōtarō Kiyomiya. And he recorded a total of 68 home runs in his three years in high school.

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
On October 25, 2018, Nomura was drafted by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the 2018 Nippon Professional Baseball draft.

On September 28, 2019, Nomura debuted in the Pacific League against the Orix Buffaloes, and recorded his first career hit. Overall in 2019, Nomura played in two total games for Fukuoka. In the 2020 season, Nomura was unable to play in the Pacific League and played 74 games in the Western League with a batting average of .263 and three home runs. In 2021, Nomura appeared seven games for the Hawks, going 3–for–17 (.177) with three RBI.

In the 2022 season, Nomura was registered first team on June 27, 2022, and recorded a hit that day against the Chiba Lotte Marines. On July 13, against the Orix Buffaloes, he recorded the game-winning RBI. On August 24, he was active against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles with three hits, a multi-hit game. While the team's main players were taken off the first team registration due to a positive test for COVID-19, Nomura, Kenta Tanigawara, and Shu Masuda, known as the Chikugo Hawks (a nickname given to the younger reserve players. Chikugo is the name of the place where the Hawks farm team is located.), supported the team's difficult situation with 20 hits and 16 runs in four games. He finished the regular season with a .229/.270/.329 slash line, 16 hits, and eight RBI across 31 games.

On August 22, 2023, Nomura hit his first career home run against the Chiba Lotte Marines. He also stole a base for the first time in a game against Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on September 20. In the 2023 canpaign, Nomura played 41 games, and finished the season with a .216/.253/.284 batting line, one home run, and four RBI.

Nomura made only two appearances for Fukuoka in 2024, going hitless in both of his at–bats.

Saitama Seibu Lions
On July 5, 2024, Nomura was traded to the Saitama Seibu Lions in exchange for.