Japan to send 32 players to Hawai'i
Advertiser Staff
Nippon Professional Baseball, the Japanese professional big league, will send 32 players to Hawaii Winter Baseball.
The revived league starts play Oct. 1.
According to an e-mail from Marty Kuehnert, assistant to the president of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, the following players from the NPB will play in HWB:
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles: RHP Yasuhiro Ichiba, LHP Kanehisa Arime, C Hisashi Kawata. Chiba Lotte Marines: RHP Terufumi Mishima, RHP Keisuke Hayashi, LHP Yusuke Kawasaki, LHP Takuya Kiko, C Keiyo Aomatsu. Seibu Lions: LHP Satoshi Yamazaki, RHP Ayumu Yamamoto. Orix Buffaloes: LHP Yasunami Takagi, RHP Toyoji Matsumura, INF Makoto Moriyama, OF Tomotaka Sakaguchi. Nippon Ham Fighters: RHP Kazumasa Kikuchi, INF Masaya Ozaki, OF Atsushi Ugumori. SoftBank Hawks: C Kenta Nakanishi, INF Tomoaki Egawa. Hanshin Tigers: LHP Atsushi Nomi, LHP Kazuya Tsutsui, C Ryoh Asai. Yakult Swallows: LHP Takashi Maruyama, OF Yasushi Iihara. Yomiuri Giants: LHP Takanobu Tsujiuchi, RHP Takuma Kadowaki, RHP Shota Kimura, RHP Shun Tono, C Ken Kato, OF Yoshiyuki Kamei. Chunichi Dragons: INF Takehiro Donoue, OF Issei Nakamura.
