Hanshin Tigers Roster

Pitchers
No. Name Yrs* DOB Ht (cm) Wt (kg) T/B

1 Shinji Taninaka 7 05/15/73 174 80 R/R

4 Keiichi Yabu 10 09/28/68 184 92 R/R

13 Yasuhiro Nakamura 1 09/19/78 174 73 L/L

15 Taiyo Fujita 3 11/01/79 185 90 R/R

16 Yuya Ando 1 12/27/77 183 87 R/R

17 Trey Moore 2 10/02/72 183 86 L/L

18 Naohisa Sugiyama 1 12/25/80 182 79 R/R

19 Tetsuro Kawajiri 9 01/05/69 178 87 R/R

20 Takehito Kanazawa 5 01/12/79 187 81 R/R

21 Makoto Yoshino 4 11/19/77 181 81 L/L

26 Hirotaka Egusa 1 9/3/80 177 80 L/L

28 Shinobu Fukuhara 5 12/28/76 180 86 R/R

29 Kei Igawa 6 07/13/79 186 90 L/L

30 Tomoyuki Kubota 1 01/30/81 180 85 R/L

34 Takehiro Hashimoto 14 09/18/64 167 74 L/L

35 Lou Pote 1 08/21/71 191 95 R/R

36 Yusuke Nakabayashi 2 08/25/83 185 84 L/L

37 Hiroshi Santo 1 10/07/78 180 75 L/L

41 Hideki Irabu 10 05/5/69 193 108 R/R

42 Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi 13 05/16/68 184 95 L/L

47 Masahiro Sakumoto 8 07/15/74 176 79 L/L

48 Hiroshi Ishide 15 07/13/70 189 97 R/R

49 Satoshi Arai 1 07/25/82 178 75 L/L

52 Kazuya Shibata 13 03/16/68 176 75 L/L

54 Jeff Williams 1 06/06/72 183 84 L/R

56 Ryohei Tamura 1 05/03/84 178 82 L/L

57 Koji Okamoto 4 08/03/81 187 98 R/R

62 Takayuki Kato 3 02/03/83 186 85 R/R

64 Kazutaka Kajiwara 2 07/29/79 182 81 R/R

65 Jarrod Rigan 1 5/16/74 188 93 R/R

67 Takateru Iyono 1 10/29/80 180 80 R/R

92 Kyuji Fujikawa 5 07/21/80 183 75 R/L

Catchers
No. Name Yrs* DOB Ht (cm) Wt (kg) T/B

12 Ryo Asai 2 07/19/79 176 78 R/R

27 Toshihiro Noguchi 14 06/24/71 182 75 R/R

39 Akihiro Yano 13 12/06/68 181 81 R/R

50 Katsunori Nomura 8 07/23/73 178 85 R/R

55 Ryo Yoshimoto 11 11/22/69 180 90 R/R

60 Tatsuya Azuma 2 4/25/79 175 83 R/R

63 Keisuke Kano 3 12/17/82 181 71 R/R

66 Jin Nakatani 6 05/05/79 182 82 R/R

Infielders
No. Name Yrs* DOB Ht (cm) Wt (kg) T/B

00 Shuta Tanaka 9 02/23/77 179 76 R/L

3 Hiroshi Yagi 17 06/08/65 182 76 R/R

5 Yoshinori Okihara 3 07/27/72 177 77 R/R

7 Makoto Imaoka 7 09/11/74 185 85 R/R

8 Atsushi Kataoka 12 06/27/69 188 93 R/L

9 Atsushi Fujimoto 3 10/04/77 173 71 R/L

14 George Arias 4 03/12/72 180 86 R/R

31 Katsumi Hirosawa 19 04/10/62 185 99 R/R

32 Teruyoshi Kuji 12 04/19/69 168 70 R/L

40 Hidemitsu Saito 10 04/18/75 180 79 R/S

43 Taichiro Kamisaka 3 04/14/77 175 72 R/R

44 Kentaro Sekimoto 7 08/26/78 185 87 R/R

46 Ryoji Arai 4 05/20/81 185 97 L/L

59 Satoshi Tanaka 4 08/27/77 178 80 R/L

61 Koji Kajiwara 3 04/20/78 180 87 R/L

68 Daisuke Kayajima 1 01/06/80 180 75 R/L

Outfielders
No. Name Yrs* DOB Ht (cm) Wt (kg) T/B

0 Yutaka Nakamura 8 04/23/73 173 80 R/R

2 Toru Fujiwara 2 06/18/79 180 79 R/R

6 Tomoaki Kanemoto 12 04/03/68 180 85 R/L

22 Go Kida 2 10/25/79 183 87 R/L

24 Shinjiro Hiyama 12 07/01/69 177 78 R/L

25 Osamu Hamanaka 7 07/09/78 179 84 R/R

33 Naoki Sogabe 8 03/20/72 182 80 R/R

38 U. Rin 1 01/22/79 178 78 L/L

45 Koji Hirashita 8 02/01/78 177 84 R/L

51 Kodai Sakurai 2 07/01/84 180 86 R/R

53 Norihiro Akahoshi 3 04/10/76 170 65 R/L

58 Kenichiro Hayakawa 8 11/07/73 176 77 R/R

65 Fumikazu Takanami 10 11/03/75 174 77 R/S

69 Keita Matsushita 1 09/19/84 178 80 L/L

99 Kanichi Matoba 4 06/17/77 180 76 R/R

*Yrs = Number of years in pro baseball in Japan (including 2003)