Fighters and Bay Stars pull off 3 for 3 swap
by Gen on Nov.25, 2009 @ 6:39 am, under NPB
Sanspo is reporting that the Bay Stars and Fighters have agreed upon a trade that will send Yataro Sakamoto, Naoto Inada, and Suguru Matsuyama to the Bay Stars for Takeharu Kato and an unnamed pitcher and catcher.
An official announcement of the deal will be made by both clubs today.
=== UPDATE 8:52am JST
Yuta Sekiguchi and Takahiro Matsuka are the two other players the Bay Stars will be sending to the Fighters.
=== UPDATE 9:33am JST
Yataro Sakamoto (P)
| Year | Team | G | W | L | Sv | CG | BF | IP | H | HR | BB | HBP | SO | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA | WHIP |
| 2002 | Yakult | 29 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 444 | 107.2 | 93 | 14 | 28 | 6 | 100 | 4 | 0 | 49 | 44 | 3.68 | 1.12 |
| 2003 | Yakult | 32 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 247 | 54.0 | 71 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 36 | 6.00 | 1.67 |
| 2004 | Yakult | 34 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 215 | 49.0 | 49 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 42 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 4.41 | 1.45 |
| 2005 | Yakult | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 10.0 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 10 | 9.00 | 1.70 |
| 2006 | Yakult | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 149 | 34.1 | 33 | 3 | 14 | 1 | 35 | 6 | 0 | 21 | 19 | 4.98 | 1.37 |
| 2007 | Yakult | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1.0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 9.00 | 4.00 |
| 2008 | Nippon Ham | 31 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 211 | 51.0 | 41 | 4 | 18 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 18 | 3.18 | 1.16 |
| 2009 | Nippon Ham | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 133 | 28.2 | 37 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 19 | 5.97 | 1.74 |
| Totals | 182 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1452 | 335.2 | 340 | 46 | 119 | 19 | 276 | 21 | 1 | 182 | 171 | 4.58 | 1.37 | |
Suguru Matsuyama (P)
| Year | Team | G | W | L | Sv | CG | BF | IP | H | HR | BB | HBP | SO | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA | WHIP |
| Rookie | |||||||||||||||||||
Naoto Inada (INF)
| Year | Team | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | TB | RBI | SB | CS | SH | SF | BB | HBP | SO | GIDP | AVG | SLG | OBP | OPS |
| 2006 | Nippon Ham | 33 | 72 | 63 | 5 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | .270 | .381 | .309 | .694 |
| 2007 | Nippon Ham | 83 | 175 | 160 | 15 | 44 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 23 | 3 | .275 | .300 | .293 | .597 |
| 2008 | Nippon Ham | 99 | 211 | 185 | 10 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 44 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 2 | .222 | .238 | .254 | .492 |
| 2009 | Nippon Ham | 65 | 67 | 65 | 4 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 1 | .277 | .323 | .299 | .622 |
| Totals | 280 | 525 | 473 | 34 | 120 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 137 | 36 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 57 | 7 | .254 | .290 | .281 | .572 | |
Takeharu Kato (P)
| Year | Team | G | W | L | Sv | CG | BF | IP | H | HR | BB | HBP | SO | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA | WHIP |
| 2003 | Yokohama | 44 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 252 | 61.2 | 59 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 19 | 2.77 | 1.05 |
| 2004 | Yokohama | 43 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 421 | 101.0 | 99 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 97 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 44 | 3.92 | 1.21 |
| 2005 | Yokohama | 46 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 372 | 90.1 | 89 | 13 | 17 | 5 | 85 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 33 | 3.29 | 1.17 |
| 2006 | Yokohama | 65 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 316 | 76.1 | 64 | 8 | 24 | 2 | 72 | 1 | 0 | 24 | 21 | 2.48 | 1.15 |
| 2007 | Yokohama | 52 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 366 | 82.0 | 88 | 10 | 29 | 3 | 87 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 41 | 4.50 | 1.43 |
| 2008 | Yokohama | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 12.0 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 6.00 | 1.58 |
| 2009 | Yokohama | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 11.0 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 5.73 | 1.82 |
| Totals | 273 | 30 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 1832 | 434.1 | 431 | 45 | 106 | 18 | 427 | 5 | 0 | 185 | 173 | 3.58 | 1.24 | |
Takahiro Matsuka (P)
| Year | Team | G | W | L | Sv | CG | BF | IP | H | HR | BB | HBP | SO | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA | WHIP |
| 2009 | Yokohama | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 15.2 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 4.60 | 0.89 |
| Totals | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 15.2 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 4.60 | 0.89 | |
Yuta Sekiguchi (OF)
| Year | Team | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | TB | RBI | SB | CS | SH | SF | BB | HBP | SO | GIDP | AVG | SLG | OBP | OPS |
| 2009 | Yokohama | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .750 |
| Totals | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .500 | .250 | .750 | |
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Holy crap, I really AM cursed. This puts it up to 9 out of 17 Fighters players I got photos with this year being off the team next year. But this trade is a bit weird as Naoto is pretty popular in Hokkaido (he even has his own column in every issue of the Fighters magazine) for a bench guy, and is really in with the Fighters mindset. Matsuyama… well, he’s still young, but I know a few Kamagaya season ticket holders who are going to be pretty devastated by this. (I have one friend who was devoted to Yohei Kaneko, and her 15-year-old apprentice was devoted to Matsuyama.) He’s a nice kid too, I was looking forward to seeing how he’d develop with us. Yataro is also a nice guy, but talent-wise we aren’t losing that much from him — what BUGS me is that we had that trade two years ago, Fujii and Yataro and Miki for Oshimoto, Hashimoto, and Keizo, and what do we have now? We have Hajime Miki as a ni-gun coach, and the others are all gone.
On the other hand, maybe I can finally talk to Takahiro Matsuka next year! I guess the Fighters really wanted a Todai grad in the organization (they drafted Ryohei Endoh about 20 years ago too).
Still, overall, if this trade is for real, I’m kinda sad to see the guys go. I wonder, where will Yokohama play Naoto anyway, if they do? Second base?