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Saturday, January 20, 2024

2024 Seibu Lions salary list

 


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In November and December of 2023, the Saitama Seibu Lions and all other NPB teams did their salary negotiations with all players for the following season. 

Here are the reported figures for the 2024 Seibu Lions: 

Legend: 

^ - Raise from 2023

|v| - Paycut from 2023

= - Same wages


AVG/OBP/SLG for position players. 
 

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Pitchers: 


Kona Takahashi: ¥165 million, ^ by ¥85 million; (10-8), 2.21 ERA in 23 games, 155 innings

Kaima Taira: ¥250 million ^ by ¥80 million; (11-7), 2.40 ERA, in 23 games,  150 innings

Tatsushi Masuda: ¥240 million |v| by ¥60 million; (4-4), 19 saves, 5.45 ERA in 40 games, 44 innings 

Masuda is in the final year of a four-year contract 

Katsunori Hirai:  ¥90 million ^ by ¥10 million; (4-3), 28 holds, 2.55 ERA in 54 games, 53 innings  (signed multi-year contract to return)

Tatsuya Imai: ¥80 million, ^ by ¥35 million, (10-5), 2.30 ERA in 19 games, 133 innings

Wataru Matsumoto: ¥58 million, |v| by ¥7 million, (6-8), 3.47 ERA in 20 games, 116.2 innings

Chihiro Sumida: ¥40 million, ^ by ¥20 million; (9-10), 3.44 ERA in 22 games, 131 innings

Yoshinobu Mizukami: ¥33 million |v| by ¥7 million, (0-2), 2.12 ERA, 5 HLD, 1 SV in 23 games, 17 innings

Kaito Yoza: ¥30 million |v| by ¥3 million (2-6), 3.69 ERA in 15 games, 83 innings 

Shunsuke Sato: ¥30 million ^ by ¥14 million; (1-2), 2.50 ERA, 18 HLD in 48 games, 39.2 innings

Keisuke Honda: ¥27 million [v] by ¥3 million; (0-1), 2 HLD, 1.56 ERA in 25 games, 34.2 innings

Minato Aoyama: ¥14 million, ^ by ¥4 million, (0-1), 3 SV, 2.96 ERA in 39 games, 45.2 innings

Ichiro Tamura: ¥13 million ^ by ¥3 million; (2-1), 6 HLD, 1 SV, 1.52 ERA in 24 games, 23.2 innings

Yutaro Watanabe: ¥8.2 million [v] by ¥300 million ; (1-0), 0.82 ERA in 2 games, 11 innings

Ren Omagari: ¥8.2 million ^ by ¥200K; (0-0), 5.40 ERA in 10 games, 10 innings

Shota Hamaya: ¥7.5 million [v] by ¥2.5 million; (7-6), 4.68 ERA in 17 ni-gun games

Taishi Mameda: ¥7.5 million ^ by ¥2.8 million; (0-0), 1 SV, 6 HLD, 0.59 ERA in 16 games, 15.1 innings

Haruto Yamada: ¥7 million, =; (0-0), 5.87 ERA in three ni-gun games

Masaya Kuroda: ¥6.5 million =; (3-3), 3.93 ERA in 13 ni-gun games

Shinnosuke Hada: ¥6 million =; (1-2), 2.15 ERA in eight ni-gun games

Yuto Akagami: ¥4.7 million =; (0-0), 0.00 ERA in one ni-gun game

Hiroshi Kaino: ¥40 million ^ by ¥4 million; (3-1), 2 SV, 8 HLD, 2.53 ERA in 46 games, 42.2 innings with Softbank Hawks

Yuta Nakamura: ¥10 million, (0-0), 1.29 ERA in five games with Hiroshima Carp 

Albert Abreu: ¥150 million - 45 games with New York Yankees in MLB

Bo Takahashi: Unreported (Made ¥35 million in 2023), (0-1), 3.00 ERA in 28 games, 36 innings

Jefry Yan: ¥75 million - 6 games with Miami Marlins affiliate in AAA

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Infielders:

Sosuke Genda: ¥300 million =; .257/.307/.300, 0 HR in 100 games

Genda signed a five-year extension through 2027

Takeya Nakamura: ¥150 million |v| by ¥50 million; .258/.389/.481, 17 HR in 88 games

Shuta Tonosaki: ¥160 million =; .260/.338/.400, 12 HR in 136 games

Tonosaki signed a four-year contract through 2026

Ryusei Sato: ¥22 million ^ by ¥11 million; .263/.390/.378, 3 HR in 91 games

Shota Hiranuma: ¥19 million ^ by ¥4 million; .245/.284/.363, 2 HR in 67 games 

Naomasa Yohkawa: ¥18 million |v| by ¥4 million; .167/.286/.292, 1 HR in nine games

Kento Watanabe: ¥16 million ^ by ¥4 million; .214/.273/.375, 6 HR in 57 games 

Ryosuke Kodama ¥13 million ^ by ¥3.5 million; .221/.244/.279, 0 HR in 56 games

Wataru Takamatsu: ¥10.6 million =; .000/.000/.000 in 2 games

Takamatsu was acquired in mid season trade with Chunichi Dragons for Seiji Kawagoe

Kakeru Yamanobe: ¥9.7 million [v] by ¥1 million ; .205/.319/.295, 0 HR in 35 games

Takayoshi Yamamura: ¥8 million ^ by ¥1 million; .286/.333/.714, 2 HR in four games

Natsuo Takizawa: ¥7.3 million |v| by ¥200K; .188/.188/.375, 1 HR in 16 games

Ryota Kawano: ¥6.5 million |v| by ¥1 million; .182/.258/.300, 3 HR in 41 ni-gun games


Jesus Aguilar: ¥210 million - 36 games with Oakland A's in MLB 

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Outfielders: 

Takumi Kuriyama: ¥108 million |v| by ¥71 million; .217/.346/.376, 7 HR in 77 games

Yuji Kaneko: ¥70 million =; .179/.222/.226, 0 HR in 47 games

Shohei Suzuki: ¥23 million ^ by ¥8 million; .240/.286/.289, 0 HR in 72 games

Junichiro Kishi: ¥16.5 million ^ by ¥2 million ; .209/.269/.288, 3 HR in 61 games

Takuya Hiruma: ¥16 million ^ by ¥6 million; .232/.280/.293, 2 HR in 56 games

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

Gakuto Wakabayashi: ¥12.2 million =; .244/.261/.356, 1 HR in 36 games 

Manaya Nishikawa: ¥11 million ^ by ¥3 million ; .227/.269/.299, 1 HR in 41 games

Wataru Takagi: ¥7 million |v| by ¥500K ; .158/.158/.158, 0 HR in five games

Shinya Hasegawa: ¥11 million ^ by ¥4.3 million; .222/.276/.339, 4 HR in 59 games 


Yudai Furukawa: ¥7.5 million =; .000/.000/.000 in one ni-gun game

Franchy Cordero: ¥100 million - 24 games with New York Yankees in MLB

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Catchers: 

Yuto Koga: ¥28 million ^ by ¥13 million; .218/.294/.301, 2 HR in 100 games

Sena Tsuge: ¥22 million ^ by ¥2 million; .184/.214/.216, 0 HR in 59 games

Masatoshi Okada: ¥10 million |v| by ¥20 million; No games registered coming off surgery

Takeru Furuichi: ¥7 million ^ by ¥2.3 million; .160/.208/.160, 0 HR in 29 games, earned promotion from ikusei 

Kaito Noda: ¥6.5 million =; .121/.151/.121, 0 HR in 15 ni-gun games

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Ikusei: 

Towa Uema: ¥5 million =; (1-2), 9.95 ERA in three ni-gun games

Ryosuke Moriwaki: ¥36 million |v| by ¥4 million, (2-1), 12 HLD, 1.95 ERA, 3 SV in 31 games, 27.2 innings

Moriwaki will miss the 2024 season coming off an artery surgery. 

Takeru Sasaki: ¥20 million =; (0-1), 0.87 ERA, 4 HLD in 21 games, 20.2 innings

Sasaki dropped to Ikusei status

Hiroki Inoue: ¥5 million [v] by ¥400K, (1-1), 4.62 ERA in 24 ni-gun games

Inoue dropped to Ikusei status 

Brandon Tysinger: ¥6 million [v] by ¥1 million ; .270/.318/.402, 4 HR in 37 ni-gun games 

Brandon dropped to Ikusei status

Shoya Makino: ¥6.6 million |v| by ¥800K ; .221/.276/.326, 2 HR in 42 ni-gun games

Makino dropped to Ikusei status and is recovering from surgery. 

Sho Ito: ¥5 million [v] by ¥300K; (2-0), 3.76 ERA in 30 ni-gun games

Yuta Nakamigawa: ¥5.5 million |v| by ¥500K; .345/.424/.517, 1 HR in 11 ni-gun games

Nakamigawa dropped to Ikusei status 

Kaito Awatsu: ¥5 million [v] by ¥300K; (2-3), 1.95 ERA in 30 ni-gun games 

Hiromasa Saito: ¥4.7 million [v] by ¥300K; (3-4), 2.70 ERA in 40 ni-gun games

Shinya Sugai: ¥2.8 million =; (4-2), 3.12 ERA in 15 ni-gun games

Joseph Ken Miyamoto: ¥4 million =; .172/.241/.250, 0 HR in 22 ni-gun games 

Kazuki Nomura ¥3.2 million =; .071/.071/.071, 0 HR in 4 ni-gun games 

Montell Higuma ¥4 million =; .277/.292/.362, 1 HR in 21 ni-gun games

Daiki Miura ¥4 million =; (1-1), 6.06 ERA in 13 ni-gun games

Ryosuke Koresawa ¥4 million =; .207/.258/.362, 2 HR in 26 ni-gun games


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2023 Draft picks with uniform numbers listed:

Main Draft

1. (#21) LHP Natsuki Takeuchi: ¥16 million + ¥100 million signing bonus + up to ¥50 million in incentives 

2. (#11) RHP Taiga Ueda: ¥12.5 million + ¥70 million signing bonus

3. (#47) LHP Haruki Sugiyama: ¥7 million + ¥50 million signing bonus

4. (#41) RHP Harusei Narita: ¥6.5 million + ¥40 million signing bonus

5. (#56) RHP Taisei Miyazawa: ¥9 million + ¥30 million signing bonus

6. (#99) IF Leon Murata: ¥7 million + ¥30 million signing bonus

7. (#23) RHP Ryota Itogawa: ¥9.5 million + ¥20 million signing bonus

Ikusei Draft

1. (#125) LHP Joseph Konosuke Sinclair: ¥4 million + ¥3.5 million signing bonus

2. (#126) RHP Asahi Taniguchi: ¥2.8 million + ¥3.5 million signing bonus

3. (#129) LHP Masahiro Kawashimi: ¥2.8 million + ¥3.5 million signing bonus

4. (#130) IF Koji Kaneko: ¥3.2 million + ¥3.5 million signing bonus

5. (#131) RHP Shota Kise: ¥2.8 million + ¥3.5 million signing bonus

6. (#132) OF Koichi Okumura: ¥4 million + ¥3.5 million signing bonus

Keep in mind education affects salary. Someone with a college education or from the industrial leagues as a shakaijin will have a higher salary than someone out of high school unless they're a first round draft pick. 

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