The current era of American managers in Japan has come to an end with Marty Brown out as skipper of the Rakuten Eagles, and another "era" is ending in Japanese baseball with the disbanding of the Shonan Searex.

The Yokohama BayStars have announced the name of its Eastern League farm team, after a decade as the Searex, will revert back to the one used 10 years ago — the Yokohama BayStars — or whatever the team will be called in 2011; Japanese media reports on Friday said the team will soon be sold.

Until the establishment of the Shonan club in 2000, the ni-gun or second-team units of all 12 teams in Japanese baseball had the same names, and players wore the same uniforms as their parent teams.