Marines announce two signings: Akichika Yamada and Naoki Matoba
by Gen on Nov.20, 2009 @ 4:30 pm, under NPB
The Chiba Lotte Marines announced on Friday that they signed pitcher Akichika Yamada and catcher Naoki Matoba. Yamada was in the Softbank organization for 8 years before he joined the Fukuoka Red Warblers in 2009. Matoba was released by the Hawks on 10/3.
Yamada was assigned the number 48 while Matoba was assigned the number 67.
Akichika Yamada - P
| Year | Team | G | GS | CG | W | L | Sv | WPCT | BF | IP | H | HR | BB | IBB | HBP | SO | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA | WHIP |
| 2001 | Daiei | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | .500 | 218 | 48.1 | 43 | 5 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 29 | 29 | 5.40 | 1.55 |
| 2002 | Daiei | 18 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 0 | .455 | 403 | 91.0 | 92 | 17 | 39 | 2 | 5 | 82 | 3 | 1 | 55 | 53 | 5.24 | 1.44 |
| 2003 | Daiei | 24 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .667 | 121 | 26.0 | 25 | 3 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 12 | 4.15 | 1.62 |
| 2004 | Daiei | 35 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .750 | 244 | 57.2 | 53 | 7 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 25 | 3.90 | 1.34 |
| 2005 | Softbank | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ---- | 28 | 5.1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1.69 | 1.88 |
| 2007 | Softbank | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ---- | 25 | 6.0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4.50 | 1.33 |
| 2008 | Softbank | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ---- | 5 | 0.2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 13.50 | 4.50 |
| 2009 | Fukuoka (IND) | 5 | -- | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | -- | 10.1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 2 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | 4 | 3.48 | -- |
| NPB Totals | 98 | 25 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 1 | .577 | 1044 | 235.0 | 224 | 34 | 122 | 5 | 15 | 189 | 10 | 1 | 129 | 124 | 4.75 | 1.47 | |
Naoki Matoba - C
| Year | Team | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | TB | RBI | SB | CS | SH | SF | BB | HBP | SO | GIDP | AVG | SLG | OBP | OPS |
| 2000 | Daiei | 34 | 60 | 53 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 1 | .151 | .283 | .237 | .520 |
| 2003 | Daiei | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 2004 | Daiei | 13 | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | .067 | .067 | .125 | .192 |
| 2005 | Softbank | 39 | 94 | 86 | 7 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 30 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 2 | .186 | .349 | .222 | .571 |
| 2006 | Softbank | 82 | 157 | 137 | 12 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 42 | 3 | .146 | .190 | .197 | .388 |
| 2007 | Softbank | 35 | 50 | 42 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 0 | .167 | .238 | .239 | .477 |
| 2008 | Softbank | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 |
| Totals | 212 | 384 | 340 | 29 | 53 | 18 | 0 | 4 | 83 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 93 | 6 | .156 | .244 | .211 | .456 | |