2018 Seibu Lions salary list

Contract negotiations for all NPB teams in this month of November. Rather than sign the dotted line on a multi-year deal, salaries can go up or down depending on how a player's performance was the previous season. Some will take paycuts for a poor year, while a great year will bring a raise. 

Here is a collection of all the Saitama Seibu Lions reported salaries for 2018. All figures are estimates and not exact based on reports. This is an ongoing list which will be updated as more reports come in.  

A handful of Ichi-gun or ni-gun stats are included, depending on who is there. If a player has participated with the ichi-gun in 2017 at any point, only those stats will show. A few guys will get a raise just for playing with the ichi-gun, if it happened more than the previous year. For hitters, we've put the slashline of AVG/OBP/SLG

^ - Raise

|v| - Paycut

= - Same wages

N = New player

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Pitchers: 

Tsubasa Kokuba: ¥5 million |v| by ¥500K (19 ni-gun games, 1-2, 42.2 IP, 3.80 ERA)

Ichiro Tamura: ¥7.5 million ^ by ¥500K (12 games, 0-0, 14.1 IP, 6.91 ERA)

Keisuke Honda: ¥7 million = (5 games, 0-0, 7.2 IP, 4.70 ERA, one spot start)

Ken Togame: ¥60 million ^ by ¥10 million (8-7, 116.1 IP, 3.40 ERA)

Chun-Lin Kuo: ¥20 million |v| by ¥10 million (No games played at either ichi-gun or ni-gun)

Brian Wolfe: ¥50 million = (9-4, 125.1 IP, 3.73 ERA)

Shogo Noda: ¥17 million ^ by ¥4 million (1-0, 36.1 IP, 1.98 ERA)

Katsunori Hirai: ¥16 million ^ ¥6 million (2-0, 45 IP, 2.40 ERA)

Tatsuya Imai: ¥13 million = (7 ni-gun games, 1-0, 15.1 IP, 2.35 ERA)

Hirotaka Koishi: ¥12.3 million |v| by ¥2.7 million (10 games, 11.1 IP, 8.74 ERA)

Seiji Kawagoe: ¥9.6 million |v| by ¥2.4 million (10 ni-gun games, 0-2, 13 IP, 12.46 ERA)

Makoto Aiuchi: ¥5.5 million |v| by ¥500K (5 games, 6 IP, 19.50 ERA)

(Aiuchi's name is now registered with his family name instead of "Makoto") 

Koki Fujita: ¥5 million = (3 ni-gun games, 1-1, 4 IP, 18.00 ERA)

Tomomi Takahashi: ¥38 million |v| by ¥10 million (3 games, 0-1, 2.2 IP, 6.75 ERA)

Takahashi spent most of the year recovering from Tommy John Surgery.

Yosuke Okamoto: ¥23 million ^ by ¥5 million (14 games, 6-3, 64 IP, 5.34 ERA)

Tatsuya Oishi: ¥14 million |v| by ¥1 million (20 games, 2-0, 19.1 IP, 0.93 ERA)

Yasuo Sano: ¥15 million ^ by ¥3 million (6 games, 3-1, 23.2 IP, 4.56 ERA)

Takuya Toyoda: ¥7.7 million |v| by ¥1.8 million (35 ni-gun games, 2-2, 36.2 IP, 2.45 ERA)

Kentaro Fukukura: ¥6.9 million ^ by ¥900K (10 games, 0-0, 18 IP, 6.00 ERA)

Naoaki Matsumoto: ¥5 million = (34 ni-gun games, 3-3, 50 IP, 6.84 ERA)

Yusei Kikuchi: ¥240 million ^ by ¥140 million (26 games, 16-6, 187.2 IP, 1.97 ERA)

Tatsushi Masuda: ¥115 million ^ by ¥20 million (57 games, 1-5, 56.1 IP, 2.40 ERA, 28 Saves)

Shota Takekuma: ¥70 million ^ by ¥20 million (58 games, 5-2, 57.1 IP, 3.14 ERA)

Shinsaburo Tawata: ¥26 million ^ by ¥3 million (16 games, 5-5, 96.2 IP, 3.44 ERA)

Ryohei Fujiwara: ¥8.5 million |v| by ¥1 million (8 games, 11.2 IP, 1.54 ERA)

Neil Wagner: ¥91.2 million (Foreign signing) N

Fabio Castillo: ¥102.6 million (Foreign signing) N

Tadasuke Minamikawa: ¥8.6 million |v| by ¥1.4 million (5 games, 0-0, 4.2 IP, 7.71 ERA)

Kona Takahashi: ¥21.5 million |v| by ¥1.5 million (7 games, 3-4, 4.12 ERA)

Shunta Nakatsuka: ¥12 million = (1 game, 0.2 IP, 27.00 ERA)

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Catchers:

Komei Fujisawa: ¥5 million = (63 ni-gun games, 119 PA, 101 AB, .139/.237/.208)

Shota Nakata: ¥5.8 million = (76 ni-gun games, 193 PA, 165 AB, .230/.308/.303)

Hitoto Komazuki: ¥5.1 million = (76 ni-gun games, 176 PA, 160 AB, .231/.290/.431)

Ginjiro Sumitani: ¥110 million ^ by ¥10 million (104 games, 310 PA, 267 AB, .251/.289/.351)

Masatoshi Okada: ¥23.5 million ^ by ¥7.5 million (68 games, 172 PA, 144 AB, .229/.306/.285)

Tomoya Mori: ¥40 million |v| by ¥5 million (38 games, 145 PA, 124 AB, .339/.434/.500)

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Infielders:

Kazuki Kaneko: ¥5.5 million = (103 ni-gun games, 284 PA, 254 AB, .205/.257/.252)

Haruka Yamada: ¥5.5 million = (106 ni-gun games, 404 PA, 364 AB, .245/.293/.346)

Ernesto Mejia: ¥500 million = (113 games, 388 PA, 345 AB, .241/.320/.458) {Mejia is in the second of a three-year deal}

Takeya "Okawari-kun" Nakamura: ¥280 million |v| by ¥130 million (115 games, 486 PA, 415 AB, .217/.319/.446)

Sosuke Genda: ¥41 million ^ by ¥29 million (143 games, 647 PA, 575 AB, .270/.317/.351)

Daichi Mizuguchi: ¥8.5 million ^ by ¥3 million (56 games, 51 PA, 50 AB, .280/.294/.340)

Hideto Asamura: ¥210 million ^ by ¥55 million (143 games, 633 PA, 574 AB, .291/.347/.453)

Kyohei Nagae: ¥12 million |v| by ¥12.5 million (25 games, 19 PA, 17 AB, .235/.235/.471)

Hotaka Yamakawa: ¥32.4 million ^ by ¥16.4 million (78 games, 293 PA, 242 AB, .298/.420/.661)

Nien-Ting Wu: ¥7.5 million |v| by ¥500K (15 games, 44 PA, 39 AB, .231/.295/.333)

Notes: Yamada was called up during the season and on the ichi-gun roster for a week, but didn't play as a emergency infielder. Yamakawa had a brief holdout as he cited his two monthly MVP accomplishments while the Lions looked at his entire season. 

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Outfielders:

Shohei Suzuki: ¥6 million = (101 ni-gun games, 343 PA, 289 AB, .280/.364/.332)

Daisuke Togawa: ¥5 million = (52 ni-gun games, 181 PA, 155 AB, .271/.370/.426)

Kazuo Matsui: ¥40 million |v| by ¥30 million from salary with Rakuten in 2017 (Free agent)

Shogo Akiyama: ¥220 million ^ by ¥20 million (143 games, 659 PA, 575 AB, .322/.398/.536) {Akiyama is in the second of a three year deal}

Shuta Tonosaki: ¥27 million ^ by ¥14 million (135 games, 489 PA, 438 AB, .258/.315/.390)

Fumikazu Kimura: ¥18.6 million ^ by ¥4.6 million (105 games, 203 PA, 184 AB, .201/.256/.272)

Shogo Saito: ¥12 million |v| by ¥2 million (10 games, 8 PA, 8 AB, .125/.125/.125)

Ryo Sakata: ¥12 million |v| by ¥3 million (11 games, 19 AB, 16 AB, .438/.526/.813)

Masato Kumashiro: ¥10 million |v| by ¥3 million (

Takumi Kuriyama: ¥130 million |v| by ¥60 million (116 games, 374 PA, 333 AB, .252/.308/.372)

Yuji Kaneko: ¥50 million ^ by ¥2 million (90 games, 320 PA, 283 AB, .272/.333/.399)

Aito Takeda: ¥6.5 million ^ by ¥500K (9 games, 6 PA, 5 AB, .000/.167/.000)

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Rookies:

P Hiromasa Saito: ¥15 million, ¥50 million signing bonus (1st round pick out of college, more incentives can hit)

P Sho Ito: ¥6.5 million, ¥40 million signing bonus (3rd round pick out of Shikoku Island Independent league)

P Kaima Taira: ¥6 million, ¥40 million signing bonus (4th round draft pick out of HS)

C Masato Saito: ¥4 million, ¥3.5 million signing bonus (2nd round ikusei pick out of college)

Note: All other rookie contract figures have not been made public, but the other four players not listed are signed. 

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