Japanese Free Agents Available to Play in the Major Leagues
The list of Japanese players who want to play in Major League Baseball will be announced on November 12th.
Japanbaseball.com put out this list of eligible players. '
The emboldened names are CNNSI's names to watch.
Here is the complete list of players who have reached free agency for the 2007-08 off season:
Team Player Age========= ==================== ===Giants Ohmichi Noriyoshi 38 Kimura Takuya 35 Maeda Yukinaga 37 Kosaka Makoto 34 Tani Yoshitomo 34 Takahashi Yoshinobu 32 1st Chunichi Inoue Kazuki 36 Ueda Yoshinori 33 Tatsunami Kazuyoshi 38 Yamamoto Masahiro 42 Tomori (Denny) Yui 40 Iwase Hitoki 32 1st Hirai Masafuji 32 1st Fukudome Kosuke* 30 1st Watanabe Hiroyuki 37 1st
Hanshin Imaoka Makoto 33 Hiyama Shinjiro 38 Shimoyanagi Tsuyoshi 39 2nd Yokohama Ishii Takuro 37 Kudoh Kimiyasu 44 Saeki Takahiro 37 Taneda Hitoshi 36 Suzuki Takanori 35 Kawakami Takeo 35 1st Miura Daisuke 33 2nd Hiroshima Ogata Koichi 38 Sasaoka Shinji 40 Takahashi Ken 38 Maeda Tomonori 36 Kuroda Hiroki 32 Arai Takahiro 30 1st Yakult Furuta Atsuya 42 Miyamoto Shinya 36 Ishii Kazuhisa 34 Nippon Kaneko Makoto 31 Ham Tanaka Yukio 39 Nakajima Satoshi 38 Kanemura Satoru 31 1st Lotte Hori Koichi 38 Ohmura Saburo 31 Fukuura Kazuya 31 Kobayashi Masahide 33 1st Komiyama Satoru 42 2nd Takagi Koji 39 1st Fujita Soichi 35 1st Yabuta Yasuhiko 34 1st SoftBank Shibahara Hiroshi 33 Honma Mitsuru 35 1st Matsunaka Nobuhiko 33 1st Rakuten Kawamoto Yasuyuki 39 Sekikawa Koichi 38 Yoshida Toyohiko 41 Isobe Koichi 33 Ogura Hisashi 37 Yamasaki Takeshi 38 Yoshioka Yuji 36 Fukumori Kazuo 31 1st Seibu Ishii Takashi 36 Etoh Akira 37 Takagi Hiroyuki 35 Nishiguchi Fumiya 35 Wada Kazuhiro 35 1st Orix Kiyohara Kazuhiro 40 Mizuguchi Eiji 38 Tuffy Rhodes 39 Yoshida Shuji 40 Kitagawa Hirotoshi 35 1st Muramatsu Arihito 34 2nd
Who's your pick?
