2023 Seibu Lions Salary List

 

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December is a month of salary negotiations for all teams. Here are the reported figures for the Seibu Lions: 

This list will continue to update as time goes on. 

Legend: 

^ - Raise

|v| - Paycut

= - Same wages

R = Coming off their first game or season at the ichi-gun.

AVG/OBP/SLG for position players. 
 

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Pitchers: 

Tatsushi Masuda: ¥300 million =; (2-5), 2.45 ERA, 31 SV in 52 games, 51.1 innings

Masuda is entering the third of a four-year contract. 

Kona Takahashi: ¥180 million, ^ by ¥70 million; (12-8), 2.20 ERA in 26 games, 175.2 innings

Kaima Taira: ¥170 million ^ by ¥70 million; (1-3), 1.56 ERA, 34 HLD, 9 SV in 54 games, 57.2 innings

Dietrich Enns: ¥170 million ^ by ¥70 million; (10-7), 2.94 ERA in 23 games, 122.1 innings

Katsunori Hirai: ¥80 million [^] by ¥12 million; (6-8), 4.22 ERA, 2 HLDS in 30 games, 81 innings

Wataru Matsumoto: ¥65 million, ^ by ¥11 million, (7-6), 3.19 ERA in 21 games, 129.2 innings

Tatsuya Imai: ¥45 million, [v] by ¥6 million, (5-1), 2.41 ERA in 9 games, 59.2 innings

Imai will have his jersey number changed from #11 to #48.

(R) Yoshinobu Mizukami: ¥40 million ^ by ¥30 million, (4-4), 1.77 ERA, 31 HLD, 1 SV in 60 games, 56 innings

Mizukami also won Pacific League Rookie of the year

Ryosuke Moriwaki: ¥40 million ^ by ¥5 million, (1-1), 10 HLD, 1.72 ERA, 1 SV in 43 games, 36.2 innings

Katsuhiko Kumon: ¥36 million [v] by ¥4.5 million, (0-0), 0.00 ERA, 7 HLD in 18 games, 9 innings

Bo Takahashi: ¥35 million ^ by ¥15 million, (0-0), 2.56 ERA, 2 HLD in 27 games, 31.2 innings

Kaito Yoza: ¥33 million ^ by ¥22 million (10-7), 2.88 ERA in 15 games, 115.2 innings 

Keisuke Honda: ¥30 million [v] by ¥17.4 million; (4-2), 20 HLD, 1.97 ERA in 45 games, 50.1 innings

Tetsu Miyagawa: ¥25 million [^] by ¥6 million; (1-0), 1 SV, 1 HLD, 2.59 ERA in 45 games, 48.2 innings

(R) Chihiro Sumida: ¥20 million, ^ by ¥4 million; (1-10), 3.75 ERA in 16 games, 81.2 innings

Takeru Sasaki: ¥20 million ^ by ¥6.5 million; (3-0), 3.03 ERA, in 37 games, 29.2 innings

(R) Shunsuke Sato: ¥16 million ^ by ¥3.5 million; (3-4), 4.60 ERA in 12 games, 47 innings

Shota Hamaya: ¥10 million [v] by ¥3.1 million; (5-4), 5.38 ERA in 14 ni-gun games

Ichiro Tamura: ¥10 million [v] by ¥2.5 million; (0-0), 6.00 ERA in three games, 3 innings

Yutaro Watanabe: ¥8.5 million [v] by ¥1.5 million ; (1-1), 6.08 ERA in 3 games, 13.1 innings

Ren Omagari: ¥8 million [v] by ¥1 million; (0-0), 6.35 ERA in six games, 5.2 innings

Masaya Kuroda: ¥6.5 million =; (1-3), 8.20 ERA in 10 ni-gun games

Shinnosuke Hada: ¥6 million =; (0-2), 7.04 ERA in five ni-gun games

Koki Matsuoka: ¥6 million [v] by ¥1.5 million; (1-4), 5.95 ERA in 31 ni-gun games

Hiroki Inoue: ¥5.4 million [v] by ¥1.3 million, (2-0), 2.00 ERA in five ni-gun games

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Infielders:

Sosuke Genda: ¥300 million ^ by ¥110 million; .266/.317/.338, 2 HR in 108 games

Genda signed a five-year extension through 2027

Hotaka Yamakawa: ¥270 million ^ by ¥140 million; .266/.375/.578, 41 HR in 129 games

Yamakawa has domestic free agent rights after 2023

Takeya Nakamura: ¥200 million =; .196/.241/.355, 12 HR in 88 games

Shuta Tonosaki: ¥160 million ^ by ¥56 million; .215/.295/.356, 12 HR in 132 games

Tonosaki signed a four-year contract through 2026, avoiding domestic free agency

Nien Ting Wu: ¥28 million ^ by ¥3 million; .227/.322/.327, 5 HR in 94 games

Shota Hiranuma: ¥15 million ^ by ¥1 million; .260/.356/.342, 1 HR in 30 games 

Kento Watanabe: ¥12 million [v] by ¥4 million; .184/.295/.321, 10 HR in 97 ni-gun games 

Ryusei Sato: ¥11 million ^ by ¥1.2 million; .115/.175/.167, 1 HR in 37 games with Fighters

Kakeru Yamanobe: ¥10.7 million [v] by ¥1.3 million ; .152/.200/.242, 0 HR in 30 games

Ryota Kawano: ¥7.5 million ^ by ¥1 million; .143/.125/.143, 0 HR in five games, Made ichi-gun debut

Natsuo Takizawa: ¥7.5 million ^ by ¥2.8 million; .224/.258/.271, 0 HR in 48 games, made ichi-gun debut, promoted from ikusei

Seigo Nakayama: ¥7 milllion =; .000/.000/.000, 0 HR in 1 game, made ichi-gun debut

Takayoshi Yamamura: ¥7 million =; .297/.332/.365, 0 HR in 60 ni-gun games

Brandon Tysinger: ¥7 million [v] by ¥2 million ; .345/.429/.564, 2 HR in 19 ni-gun games 

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Outfielders: 

Takumi Kuriyama: ¥179 million =; .264/.326/.360, 3 HR in 89 games

Yuji Kaneko: ¥126 million =; .277/.323/.370, 1 HR in 44 games

Kaneko enters the final year of a four-year contract. 

"Aito" Takeda: ¥33 million ^ by ¥13 million ; .243/.266/.369, 9 HR in 121 games

Shohei Suzuki: ¥15 million ^ by ¥6.4 million; .250/.279/.321, 1 HR in 58 games

Junichiro Kishi: ¥14.5 million [v] by ¥1.5 million ; .205/.284/.356, 2 HR in 45 games

Seiji Kawagoe: ¥14 million ^ by ¥2 million ; .259/.346/.381, 2 HR in 50 games

Gakuto Wakabayashi: ¥12.2 million [v] by ¥1.8 million ; .207/.258/.207, 0 HR in 28 games 

Manaya Nishikawa: ¥8.5 million ^ by ¥700K ; .000/.000/.000, 0 HR in 35 games

Wataru Takagi: ¥7.5 million ^ by ¥1 million ; .111/.195/.111, 0 HR in 13 games

Shinya Hasegawa: ¥6.7 million ^ by ¥2 million .185/.221/.246, 0 HR in 37 games, made ichi-gun debut, promoted from ikusei

Yuta Nakamigawa: ¥6 million =; .188/.289/.453, 9 HR in 47 ni-gun games 

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Catchers: 

Masatoshi Okada: ¥30 million =; .000/.000/.000,  HR in one game

Sena Tsuge: ¥20 million ^ by ¥5 million; .173/.202/.250, 1 HR in 42 games

(R) Yuto Koga: ¥15 million ^ by ¥2.5 million; .155/.265/.241, 1 HR in 26 games

Shoya Makino: ¥7.4 million ^ by ¥1.7 million ; .137/.194/.207, 0 HR in 11 games

Makino will be under an ikusei contract recovering from injury

Masato Saito: ¥5.8 million ^ by ¥500K ; .000/.000/.000, 0 HR in 1 game

Daichi Nakaguma: ¥4.5 million =; .000/.000/.000, 0 HR in 1 game, Made ichi-gun debut, promoted from ikusei

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Ikusei: 

Towa Uema: ¥5 million [v] by ¥1.5 million,  No games recorded in 2022

Sho Ito: ¥5.3 million [v] by ¥1.7 million; No games recorded in 2022

Kaito Awatsu: ¥5.3 million =; (0-0), 3.38 ERA in 10 ni-gun games 

Hiromasa Saito: ¥5 million [v] by ¥5 million; (1-4), 9.56 ERA in 14 ni-gun games

Toshihiro Idei: ¥4 million = ; (2-6), 5.52 ERA in 28 ni-gun games

Taishi Mameda: ¥2.8 million =; (3-6), 3.76 ERA in 18 ni-gun games

Yuto Akagami: ¥4.7 million =; (3-3), 3.27 ERA in 23 ni-gun games

Shinya Sugai: ¥2.8 million =; (0-0), 3.00 ERA in three ni-gun games

Joseph Ken Miyamoto: ¥4 million =; .187/.221/.253, 1 HR in 43 ni-gun games 

Takeru Furuichi: ¥2.8 million =; .179/.303/.214, 0 HR in 15 ni-gun games

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2022 Draft picks with uniform numbers listed:

Main Draft

1. OF #9 Takuya Hiruma: ¥16 million, ¥100 million signing bonus with up to ¥50 million in incentives

2. OF #33 Yudai Furukawa: ¥7.5 million, ¥70 million signing bonus 　

3. C #38 Kaito Noda: ¥6.5 million, ¥50 million signing bonus 

4. P #29 Minato Aoyama: ¥10 million, ¥40 million signing bonus 

5. P #36 Haruto Yamada: ¥7 million, ¥25 million signing bonus　

6. IF #0 Ryosuke Kodama ¥10 million, ¥30 million signing bonus 　

Keep in mind education affects the salary.  Aoyama came out of college while Kodama is a shakaijin from the industrial leagues. 

Ikusei Draft

1. IF #118 Kazuki Nomura ¥3.2 million, ¥3.5 million signing bonus 

2. OF #119 Montell Higuma ¥4 million, ¥3.5 million signing bonus 

3. P #121 Daiki Miura ¥4 million, ¥3.5 million signing bonus

4. C #122 Ryosuke Koresawa ¥4 million, ¥3.5 million signing bonus 

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