2007 Japan Free Agents

August 17, 2007 – 5:11 am

FA Qualified Players (2007)        Player   (Age)

Chunichi Dragons Masa Yamamoto (42) P Year Qualified: 1997
Denny Tomori (40) P Year Re-qualified: 2006
Masafumi Hirai (32) P Will Qualify in 2007
Kazuyoshi Tatsunami (38) IF Year Qualified: 1997
Hiroyuki Watanabe (37) IF Will Qualify in 2007
Yoshinori Ueda (34) OF Year Qualified: 2004
Kazuki Inoue (36) OF Year Qualified: 2005
       
Hanshin Tigers Makoto Imaoka (33) IF Year Qualified: 2006
Shinjiro Hiyama (38) OF Year Qualified: 2006
       
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kazuhisa Ishii (34) P Year Qualified: 2006
Atsuya Furuta (42) C Year Re-qualified: 1998 FM since 2006
Shinya Miyamoto (37) IF Year Qualified: 2004
       
Yomiuri Giants Yukinaga Maeda (37) P Year Qualified: 2005
Makoto Kosaka (34) IF Year Qualified: 2006
Takuya Kimura (35) OF Year Qualified: 2003
Noriyoshi Omichi (38) OF Year Re-qualified: 2000
Yoshitomo Tani (34) OF Year Qualified: 2005
Yoshinobu Takahashi (32) OF Will Qualify in 2007
       
Hiroshima Carp Shinji Sasaoka (40) P Year Qualified: 1998
Ken Takahashi (38) P Year Re-qualified: 2004
Hiroki Kuroda P Year Qualified: 2006
Koichi Ogata (39) OF Year Qualified: 1999
Tomonori Maeda (36) OF Year Qualified: 2000
       
Yokohama BayStars Kimiyasu Kudo (44) P Year Re-qualified: 2004
Hitoshi Taneda (36) IF Year Qualified: 2002
Takuro Ishii (37) IF Year Re-qualified: 2003
Takahiro Saeki (37) IF Year Qualified: 2002
Takanori Suzuki (35) OF Year Re-qualified: 2004
       
Nippon Ham Fighters Satoru Kanemura (31) P Will Qualify in 2007
Satoshi Nakajima (38) C Year Re-qualified: 2001
Yukio Tanaka (40) IF Year Re-qualified: 2000
Makoto Kaneko (32) IF Year Qualified: 2004
       
Seibu Lions Fumiya Nishiguchi (35) P Year Qualified: 2004
Takashi Ishii (36) P Year Qualified: 2005
Akira Eto (37) IF Year Re-qualified: 2003
Hiroyuki Takagi (35) IF Year Qualified: 2005
Kazuhiro Wada (35) OF Will Qualify in 2007
       
Softbank Hawks Nobuhiko Matsunaga (34) IF Will Qualify in 2007 M-y-contract up to 2012
Mitsuru Honma (35) IF Will Qualify in 2007
Hiroshi Shibahara (32) OF Year Qualified: 2006
       
Lotte Marines Soichi Fujita (35) P Will Qualify in 2007
Koji Takagi (39) P Will Qualify in 2007
Yasuhiko Yabuta (34) P Will Qualify in 2007
Koichi Hori (38) IF Year Re-qualified: 2003
Kazuya Fukuura (32) IF Year Qualified: 2006
Saburo Kimura (31) OF Year Qualified: 2006
       
Orix Buffaloes Shuji Yoshida (41) P Year Qualified: 2002
Kazuhiro Kiyohara (40) IF Year Re-qualified: 2000
Eiji Mizuguchi (38) IF Year Re-qualified: 2004
Hirotoshi Kitagawa (35) IF Will Qualify in 2007
       
Rakuten Golden Eagles Toyohiko Yoshida (41) P Year Qualified: 1997
Yasuyuki Kawamoto (40) P Year Qualified: 2002
Hisashi Ogura (37) P Year Qualified: 2006
Kazuo Fukumori (31) P Will Qualify in 2007
Yuji Yoshioka (36) IF Year Qualified: 2006
Takeshi Yamasaki (39) IF Year Qualified: 2006
Koichi Sekikawa (38) OF Year Qualified: 2000
Koichi Isobe (33) OF Year Qualified: 2006

August 16, 2007 – 1:25 pm

Batting Statistics Central League As of August 15, 2007: Only those who reached the minimum number of times at bats (Team’s No. of games x 3)

R PlayerTeam)                 Ave SBA G PA AB  R  H 2B 3B HR TB RBI SO BB HBP  B SF SB GIDP OBP SLG ER
1 Norichika Aoki (S:BL) .354 .348 99 451 393 82 139 19 18 216 46 48 53 11 .433 .550
2 Alex Ramirez (S) .339 .349 99 433 410 57 139 25 17 219 77 63 16 14 .370 .534
3 Yoshitomo Tani (G) .325 .370 105 460 412 54 134 25 186 43 38 26 18 .369 .451
4 Takahiro Saeki (B: BL) .321 .276 88 318 287 36 92 20 11 151 49 37 24 .375 .526
5 Lin Wei-chu (T) .316 .304 98 374 354 46 112 16 14 176 52 74 19 .350 .497
6 Shinya Miyamoto (S) .315 .287 91 360 327 32 103 13 132 29 43 13 16 12 .349 .404
7 Norihiro Akahoshi (T:BL) .311 .283 83 335 286 41 89 11 102 16 42 24 21 20 .366 .357
8 MichihiroOgasawara (G:BL) .306 .295 105 455 422 68 129 22 26