Seibu Lions: 2012 Additions / Subtractions
by Gen on Mar.08, 2012 @ 5:00 am, under NPB
Additions
| # | Pos | Name | Method | Prev Team |
| 21 | P | Togame, Ken | Draft 1st Round | |
| 23 | P | Nakamura, Micheal | Free Agent | Yomiuri |
| 29 | P | Koishi, Hirotaka | Draft 2nd Round | |
| 43 | P | Sajikihara, Masashi | Free Agent | Hanshin |
| 50 | P | Gonzalez, Enrique | New foreigner | |
| 54 | P | Williams, Randy | New foreigner | |
| 52 | C | Takeyama, Shingo | Trade | Yokohama |
| 2 | INF | Carter, Chris | New foreigner | |
| 6 | INF | German, Esteban | New foreigner | |
| 59 | INF | Nagae, Kyohei | Draft 4th Round | |
| 61 | OF | Tashiro, Shotaro | Draft 5th Round | |
| 62 | OF | Komazuki, Hitoto | Draft 3rd Round | |
| 122 | C | Fujisawa, Komei | Draft Ikusei 1st Round |
Subtractions
| # | Pos | Player | 2012 |
| 23 | P | Hsu, Ming-Chieh | Orix |
| 25 | P | Iwasaki, Tetsuya | Hopes to continue playing |
| 29 | P | Yamazaki, Satoshi | Gunma Coach (Ind League) |
| 47 | P | Hoashi, Kazuyuki | Softbank |
| 50 | P | Sikorski, Brian | |
| 54 | P | Graman, Alex | |
| 62 | P | Zhu, Da-Wei | Hopes to continue playing |
| 22 | C | Noda, Kosuke | Seibu staff |
| 5 | INF | Ishii, Yoshihito | Yomiuri |
| 6 | INF | Goto, Taketoshi | Trade (Yokohama) |
| 52 | INF | Fernandez, Jose | Rakuten |
| 24 | OF | Mulhern, Ryan | Return to US |
| 42 | OF | Brown, Dee | Return to US |
| 46 | OF | Sato, Takahiko | Italy |
Note: Does not include Hirotaka Egusa to Hiroshima for Shigenobu Shima trade.
Tags: 2012 Additions, Seibu Lions
Hey, instead of calling them ‘new foreigners’ what about ‘new imports?’
I can’t imagine people calling Albert Pujols or Mariano Rivera ‘foreigners’ in American baseball.
Mike
Pujols is a naturalized US citizen.