Yomiuri Giants acquire Shinji Takahashi in cash trade with Nippon Ham Fighters
by Gen on May.09, 2011 @ 8:27 pm, under NPB
5/10 @ 2:56pm
The Giants held a press conference introducing Takahashi at Giants Stadium today. He was also assigned the number 31. The team apparently has high hopes for Takahashi during Inter-league play.
5/9 @ 8:27pm
The Nippon Ham Fighters announced today that they sent Shinji Takahashi to the Yomiuri Giants for cash considerations.
Career Stats
| YR | TM | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | TB | RBI | SB | CS | SH | SF | BB | HBP | SO | GDP | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| 2000 | HAM | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 3.000 |
| 2001 | HAM | 16 | 23 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | .273 | .304 | .273 | .577 |
| 2002 | HAM | 8 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .333 | .583 |
| 2003 | HAM | 105 | 336 | 309 | 34 | 81 | 16 | 1 | 12 | 135 | 49 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 73 | 4 | .262 | .305 | .437 | .744 |
| 2004 | HAM | 115 | 452 | 404 | 66 | 115 | 19 | 2 | 26 | 216 | 84 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 34 | 6 | 93 | 7 | .285 | .345 | .535 | .884 |
| 2005 | HAM | 54 | 174 | 164 | 12 | 37 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 60 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 1 | .226 | .254 | .366 | .623 |
| 2006 | HAM | 78 | 242 | 223 | 26 | 56 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 81 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 42 | 3 | .251 | .289 | .363 | .656 |
| 2007 | HAM | 112 | 422 | 385 | 38 | 98 | 23 | 0 | 10 | 151 | 43 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 4 | 64 | 9 | .255 | .306 | .392 | .701 |
| 2008 | HAM | 108 | 394 | 357 | 33 | 102 | 19 | 0 | 9 | 148 | 58 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 24 | 3 | 74 | 13 | .286 | .333 | .415 | .751 |
| 2009 | HAM | 134 | 558 | 508 | 66 | 157 | 22 | 1 | 8 | 205 | 75 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 35 | 5 | 78 | 16 | .309 | .358 | .404 | .763 |
| 2010 | HAM | 70 | 272 | 244 | 21 | 59 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 74 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 34 | 4 | .242 | .320 | .303 | .623 |
| Totals | 801 | 2886 | 2629 | 298 | 715 | 118 | 6 | 79 | 1082 | 392 | 21 | 7 | 30 | 21 | 171 | 35 | 501 | 59 | .272 | .322 | .412 | .736 | |
May 9th, 2011 on 9:32 pm
巨人の星 was sent to the Lions as a result.
May 10th, 2011 on 11:10 am
A little sad to see Hoshi go, but I suppose they felt they had to move someone with the addition of Takahashi. The Giants have a fairly large number of catchers and Hoshi appeared to be the odd man out.
Takahashi should be a solid pick-up for the Giants. Ryal hasn’t exactly knocked anyone’s socks off at third this year and Takahashi does have some pop (he’s been down at Ni-gun and has put good numbers: a slash line of .400 / .458 / .738 in 23 games).
EDIT: I should probably have added that the addition of Takahashi will give the Giants more options, not make is sound like he’d play third, especially since he’s a 1B / C. And it isn’t just Ryal that’s struggling — Ogasawara has had problems and the Giants are currently without both Yoshinobu Takahashi and Shinnosuke Abe.
May 10th, 2011 on 1:29 pm
Almost there.
C Sanemtsu
1B Takahashi
2B Furuki
3B
SS Ogasawara
LF Konta
CF
RF Kudoh
P Fujii – Sunaga – Micheal
May 10th, 2011 on 1:30 pm
I meant
3B Ogasawara
May 10th, 2011 on 2:21 pm
So perhaps the Fighters really didn’t move to Sapporo.
May 10th, 2011 on 2:26 pm
Well, Takahashi was one of the few remaining Tokyo Dome Fighters and his wife used to dance for the Giants dance squad.