An in-depth look at the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, Jingu Stadium, the Central League, and Japanese Pro Baseball
There’s been plenty of action recently in terms of players being added to, and wiped from, the top team roster. The following players have recently gone up or down. October 29th (First Stage Game 1) Murakawa, Ishikawa and Miwa were activated. Yuichi was deactivated. October 31st (First Stage Game 3) Iihara was activated. Hidaka was [...]
As posted on the team’s official website, Hirotoshi Ishii was removed from the active roster after his retirement game on the 25th. Therefore, the 26 guys that are currently on the top team are as follows: Pitchers Lim, Matsuoka, Masubuchi, Tateyama, Barnette, Matsui, Hidaka, Akagawa, Watanabe, Oshimoto Catchers Aikawa, Kawamoto, Fukukawa Infielders Miyamoto, Tanaka, Takeuchi, [...]
Pitcher Shouhei Tateyama (no. 25) has returned to the top team after a brief spell on the farm. The right-handed ace was sent down after a shelling at the hands of the Giants, and his absence has been clearly evident as the replacement contingent hasn’t done a very good job of filling in for him. [...]
Pitcher Hiromitsu Takagi (no.58) and infielder Ryo Yoshimoto (no. 40) have been called up to the first team to replace Ricky Barrett (P) and Shinya Miyamoto (IF). Takagi is a right-handed pitcher in his fourth year with the birds, and this is his first call-up of the season. In 17 appearances with the farm team [...]
Pitchers Kousuke Matsui and Ricky Barrett were brought up from the farm team yesterday, and both of them made appearances after our starter, Kyouhei Muranaka, threw what amounted to batting practice for the first two innings of the game. Right-handed pitcher Kousuke Matsui (no. 44) turns 31 this month and is in his fourth year [...]
The newest faces on the Tokyo Swallows first team roster are pitcher Shun Takaichi (no. 14) and infielder Yusuke Kajimoto (no. 39). Takaichi had seen some time on the first team earlier this season before spending about three months on the farm team. His first two appearances of the season comprised a total of eight [...]
Yuya Kamada (no. 20) has replaced Masao Kida in the bullpen as of today. Kamada made three appearances and pitched a total of four innings without surrendering a run, but he was dropped to the farm team a couple of months ago. The 30-year-old right-handed pitcher from Akita prefecture has several years of first team [...]
After mentioning that I thought we might be seeing 25-year-old, second year player, Masayoshi Miwa, on the first team before long, it turns out that I was wrong. Takada instead chose to promote a different second year guy, 26-year-old outfielder, Toshihiro Nakao (no. 56). He apparently has been one of the best hitters this season [...]
Yoshiyuki Noguchi (no. 55) made his return to the top team yesterday and provided an rbi single to center in the ninth inning. The 28-year-old infielder (throws and bats right-handed) had several decent games at the minor league level to help get himself another shot at the first team. His return comes at the expense [...]
