After looking at the big earners in part one, and the upwardly mobile in part two, in this final part of our annual monetary review, we’ll be looking at those whose salary will be a little more petite this coming season.
The Losers
Ryo Kawashima - The first of quite a number of pitchers who will see their salary fall this year. Ryo [...]
It’s the first day of spring camp, and the birds have flown south to Okinawa to open a couple weeks of “no pain, no gain” training sessions.
After last year’s very lucky appearance in the postseason, the first ever for the Swallows I might add, all of the usual suspects are back for another go at [...]
Things finally got worked out behind the scenes, and thankfully D’Antona will be swinging the bat for the birds again in 2010.
He reportedly signed a two-year deal that will see him taking home 73 million yen this year (plus incentives).
The deal includes a club option for the second year.
Phew! Glad that’s settled.
Welcome back, Jamie!
Tsubamegun wishes [...]
Well, the festive season is over and the 2010 baseball season can be spotted lurking on the horizon, just waiting to take over our lives again. Here’s a round up of what’s been going on in SwallowsLand so far this offseason that hasn’t been covered elsewhere on the site:
The Swallows made only their second ever free [...]
The Tokyo Swallows reported that they have signed 26-year-old Tony Barnette, formerly of the Arizona Diamondbacks organization, to a one year deal worth four hundred thousand dollars plus incentives (just shy of forty million yen).
Barnette, a right-handed pitcher who will be wearing number 64, spent all of 2009 with Arizona’s triple-A outfit, the Reno Aces. [...]
Rumored to be able to throw 160 kph (100 mph), Eulogio De La Cruz was released by the San Diego Padres in the middle of last week, and has now signed for 15 million yen (plus incentives) with the Tokyo Swallows.
The 25-year-old RHP hails from the Dominican Republic and made his last major league appearance [...]
The birds made a few new acquisitions back on the 29th of October, and at least one of those picks (a left-handed pitcher out of the industrial leagues) looks like he could make an immediate contribution to the team.
The Swallows were part of that huge scrum looking to snap up Yusei Kikuchi, but they lost [...]
