Weight
2019
January 27 – Kuramoto currently weighs around ninety-four kilograms. At this time last year, he weighed about ten more kilograms.
Source: Daily Sports 1/27/2019
0 CommentsThe Yakult Swallows held a press conference to formally announce the return of thirty-nine-year-old Ryota Igarashi. He was assigned the uniform number 53. According to media reports, the two sides agreed to a salary of twenty million yen plus incentives.
Igarashi began his NPB career when the Swallows selected him in the second round of the 1997 draft. He left the Swallows after the 2009 season through free agency and spent the next three seasons in the Majors. He returned to Japan in 2013 and signed with the Softbank Hawks.
Source: Yakult 1/24/2019, Daily Sports 1/24/2019, Tokyo Sports 1/24/2019, Sponichi 1/24/2019
0 CommentsThe Yakult Swallows announced that they finalized salaries and contracts for five foreign players.
(Salaries are estimates)
Source: Yakult 12/25/2018, Tokyo Sports 12/25/2018, Nikkan Sports 12/25/2018, Sponichi 12/25/2018, Sports Hochi 12/25/2018, Daily Sports 12/25/2018, Daily Sports 12/25/2018
0 CommentsThirty-four-year-old Tomotaka Sakaguchi finalized to a new three-year contract with the Yakult Swallows on December 21. The contract does not have a set salary, which means it will fluctuate year to year. His salary in 2019 will be an estimated 140 million yen, up 40 million yen from this year.
Source: Daily Sports 12/21/2018, Sports Hochi 12/21/2018, Sponichi 12/21/2018, Sanspo 12/21/2018
0 CommentsThe media learned on December 12, through Yakult Swallows official Masayuki Okumura, that the Yakult Swallows have reached an agreement with twenty-nine-year-old Albert Suarez. The right-handed pitcher is the older brother of Softbank’s Robert Suarez.
Source: Sanspo 12/12/2018, Sanspo 12/13/2018
0 CommentsThe Nippon Ham Fighters and Yakult Swallows agreed on a trade. The Fighters will send twenty-seven-year-old Hirotoshi Takanashi and twenty-one-year-old Kengo Ota to the Swallows for twenty-nine-year-old Ryo Akiyoshi and twenty-seven-year-old Ryota Yachi.
Source: Nippon Ham 12/11/2018, Yakult 12/11/2018
[UPDATE 12/18 @ 10:44am]
The Fighters held a press conference for Akiyoshi and Yachi on December 17. They were assigned the uniform numbers 39 and 32, respectively.
Source: Nippon Ham 12/17/2018
[UPDATE 12/19 @ 1:09am]
The Swallows held a press conference for Takanashi and Ota on December 18. Takanashi was assigned the uniform number 14, Ota the number 46.
Source: Yakult 12/18/2018
0 CommentsThe Yakult Swallows announced that they reached an agreement with Hayato Terahara. The Swallows see Terahara as someone that might be able to provide innings out of the bullpen. According to media reports, the two sides agreed to a one-year deal worth an estimated twenty-two million yen.
Source: Yakult 11/27/2018, Sanspo 11/27/2018, Nikkan Sports 11/27/2018, Sponichi 11/27/2018
[UPDATE 12/10 @ 12:50pm]
Terahara was assigned the uniform number 35.
Source: Sponichi 12/10/2018, Daily Sports 12/10/2018, Nikkan Sports 12/10/2018
0 CommentsThe Yakult Swallows announced uniform numbers changes for the following three players:
Source: Yakult 11/19/2018
0 CommentsIchi-gun Coaching Staff
| Uni | Position | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | 監督 Manager |
小川 淳司 Junji Ogawa |
| 86 | ヘッドコーチ Head Coach |
宮本 慎也 Shinya Miyamoto |
| 89 | 投手コーチ Pitching Coach |
田畑 一也 Kazuya Tabata |
| 98 | 投手コーチ Pitching Coach |
石井 弘寿 Hirotoshi Ishii |
| 81 | 打撃コーチ Hitting Coach |
石井 琢朗 Takuro Ishii |
| 76 | 打撃コーチ Hitting Coach |
宮出 隆自 Ryuji Miyade |
| 95 | 内野守備走塁コーチ INF/Base Coach |
土橋 勝征 Katsuyuki Dobashi |
| 71 | 外野守備走塁コーチ OF/Base Coach |
河田 雄祐 Yusuke Kawada |
| 83 | バッテリーコーチ Battery Coach |
衣川 篤史 Atsushi Kinugawa |
| 74 | 巡回コーチ Roving Coach |
杉村 繁 Shigeru Sugimura |
Ni-gun Coaching Staff
| Uni | Position | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 99 | 監督 Manager |
高津 臣吾 Shingo Takatsu |
| 78 | チーフコーチ Chief Coach |
橋上 秀樹 Hideki Hashigami |
| 72 | 投手コーチ Pitching Coach |
小野寺 力 Chikara Onodera |
| 84 | 投手コーチ Pitching Coach |
松岡 健一 Kenichi Matsuoka |
| 82 | 打撃コーチ Hitting Coach |
松元ユウイチ Yuichi Matsumoto |
| 85 | 打撃コーチ Hitting Coach |
北川 博敏 Hirotoshi Kitagawa |
| 75 | 内野守備走塁コーチ INF/Base Coach |
森岡 良介 Ryosuke Morioka |
| 73 | 外野守備走塁コーチ OF/Base Coach |
福地 寿樹 Kazuki Fukuchi |
| 87 | バッテリーコーチ Battery Coach |
福川 将和 Masakazu Fukukawa |
Source: Yakult 10/31/2018
0 Comments| Round | Name | Pos | Team | T | B | Ht | Wt | DOB | NK | SA | SP | SH | DS | TC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 清水 昇 Shimizu, Noboru |
P | 国学院大 Kokugakuin U |
R | L | 180 | 84 | 1996/10/15 | A | A | A | A | A | A |
| 2 | 中山 翔太 Nakayama, Shota |
OF | 法政大 Hosei U |
R | R | 185 | 95 | 1996/09/22 | B | B | B | B | B | B |
| 3 | 市川 悠太 Ichikawa, Yuta |
P | 明徳義塾高 Meitoku Gijuku HS |
R | R | 184 | 76 | 2001/03/29 | B | B | B | B | B | B |
| 4 | 濱田 太貴 Hamada, Taiki |
OF | 明豊高 Meiho HS |
R | R | 178 | 80 | 2000/09/04 | B | C | B | C | B | |
| 5 | 坂本 光士郎 Sakamoto, Koshiro |
P | 新日鐵住金広畑 Shin Nittetsu Sumikin Hirohata |
L | L | 180 | 74 | 1994/09/09 | B | B | B | B | B | A |
| 6 | 鈴木 裕太 Suzuki, Yuta |
P | 日本文理高 Nihon Bunri HS |
R | R | 182 | 87 | 2000/08/02 | C | B | C | C | B | |
| 7 | 久保 拓眞 Kubo, Takuma |
P | 九州共立大 Kyushu Kyoritsu U |
L | L | 175 | 75 | 1996/07/27 | C | B | ||||
| 8 | 吉田 大成 Yoshida, Taisei |
INF | 明治安田生命 Meiji Yasuda Seimei |
R | L | 174 | 78 | 1995/03/07 | C | C | ||||
| I1 | 内山 太嗣 Uchiyama, Taishi |
C | 栃木 (BCL) Tochigi |
R | R | 172 | 77 | 1996/04/21 | B | |||||
| I2 | 松本 友 Matsumoto, Yu |
INF | 福井 (BCL) Fukui |
R | L | 180 | 82 | 1995/02/05 | B | C | C | C |
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