Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Rakuten ya ɗauki Ba'amurke Marty Brown don maye gurbin Nomura a matsayin manaja. Kodayake an sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar shekara biyu, an bar shi shekara guda bayan Eagles sun gama kakar 2010 a matsayi na karshe. Kungiyar ta kalli Senichi Hoshino na gaba don juya ƙungiyar. Kazuo Matsui da Akinori Iwamura, dukansu sun dawo daga buga wasanni a Major League Baseball (MLB), an kuma kara su a cikin jerin. An kuma sanya sunan Teppei Tsuchiya a matsayin kyaftin din farko na kungiyar. A ranar 11 ga Maris, 2011, makonni biyu kafin wasan farko na kakar wasa ta bana, yankin Tōhoku ya sha wahala daga
babbar girgizar kasa a tarihin kasar. Girgizar kasa da tsunami da ta biyo baya sun lalata yankin, gami da garin Sendai na Eagles. Tare da jinkirta wasan farko na kakar wasa har zuwa 12 ga Afrilu, kungiyar ta ci gaba da horarwa a yankin Kansai saboda sakamakon da ya faru a Sendai. Baya ga Rakuten da ke gudanar da taron tara kudi, dukkan kungiyoyin 12 sun buga wasannin sadaka don taimakawa wajen tara kudi don taimakon girgizar kasa. Sun karbi bakuncin wasan "gida" na farko a filin wasa na Koshien yayin da aikin gyara filin wasa na Kleenex ya ci gaba. Baseball ya dawo Sendai a ranar 12 ga Afrilu, lokacin da Eagles suka buga wasan farko a filin su. Bugu da ƙari, wasan karshe na 2011 All-Star Series an sauya shi daga Tokyo Dome zuwa Kleenex Stadium, karo na biyu da Eagles suka karbi bakuncin taron tun 2007. Rakuten ya gama kakar 2011 a karo na biyar kuma ya sake rasa wasan karshe. Koyaya, ban da cin nasarar Golden Glove da lambar yabo mafi kyau tara, an kuma kira Tanaka PL MVP na watan sau uku a cikin kakar wasa, a karon farko a gasar Pacific League.