In the book Hawks Method: How to Build a Team That Keeps Winning, released on March 28, 2025, SHAPE Partners’ joint initiative with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to develop a player development manual is featured.

The book is written by Kyozo Hibino, who previously worked as an editor and writer for the sports magazine Number, focusing primarily on baseball, before establishing himself as a nonfiction writer. Through extensive interviews, the book examines the organizational practices of the SoftBank Hawks in detail.

With the SoftBank Hawks setting their sights firmly on becoming the best team in the world, the book explores and analyzes the organization from a management and organizational theory perspective. Within this context, the collaborative project between SHAPE Partners and the SoftBank Hawks is also introduced.

Structure of Hawks Method: How to Build a Team That Keeps Winning

Table of Contents

• Prologue: Defeat That Triggered Reform

• Chapter 1: The Fourth Team and the Coordinator System

• Chapter 2: Taking on Baseball DX

• Chapter 3: The Evolution of Scouting

• Chapter 4: Creating the Development Manual

• Chapter 5: The Successors of the Team Philosophy

• Chapter 6: Toward Becoming the Best in the World

• Epilogue

The collaboration between SHAPE Partners and the SoftBank Hawks is featured in Chapter 4, “Creating the Development Manual.”

Book Overview

• Title: Hawks Method: How to Build a Team That Keeps Winning

• Publisher: Nikkei BP

• Release Date: March 28, 2025

• Price: JPY 1,870 (tax included)

• ISBN: 978-4-296-20789-3

• Amazon page: https://amzn.asia/d/3SaK5uR