Rakuten Eagles to send Yusuke Kusuki to Yakult Swallows for Yoshitaka Hashimoto
by Gen on Dec.12, 2011 @ 6:51 am, under NPB
Sports Hochi is reporting that the Rakuten Eagles will be sending outfielder Yusuke Kusuki (27) to the Yakult Swallows for pitcher Yoshitaka Hashimoto (32). Both teams could officially announce the deal some time today.
UPDATE @ 4:05pm - The Yakult Swallows' have announced the deal on their team website.
UPDATE 12/15 @ 2:33pm - The Swallows held a press conference for Kusuki today and assigned him the number 56. He also agreed to a salary of 9.8M yen.
UPDATE 12/20 @ 4:29pm - The Eagles held a press conference to introduce Hashimoto to the media today. He was assigned the number 38.
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Career Stats - Yusuke Kusuki
| Year | Tm | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | TB | RBI | SB | CS | SH | SF | BB | HBP | SO | GIDP | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
| 2010 | RAK | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 |
| Totals | 4 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | |
Career Stats - Yoshitaka Hashimoto
| Year | Tm | G | W | L | Sv | CG | ShO | BF | IP | H | HR | BB | HBP | SO | WP | BK | R | ER | ERA | WHIP |
| 2005 | HAM | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 21.0 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 3.86 | 1.48 |
| 2006 | HAM | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 315 | 73.0 | 89 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 27 | 3.33 | 1.38 |
| 2007 | HAM | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 8.0 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3.38 | 1.25 |
| 2009 | YAK | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 20.0 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1.35 | 0.90 |
| 2010 | YAK | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 19.0 | 30 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 5.68 | 1.89 |
| 2011 | YAK | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 18.2 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 4.34 | 1.61 |
| Totals | 90 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 692 | 159.2 | 185 | 18 | 41 | 5 | 91 | 2 | 1 | 78 | 63 | 3.55 | 1.42 | |
December 13th, 2011 on 2:48 am
Is Hashimoto expected to join the rotation, or what?