Retired Numbers in NPB (Japan Baseball)
As of 2017 Jan, NPB (Japan professional baseball) has retired 17 numbers. The following is the list of retired numbers.
Team | No. | Player | Position | Set on yyyy/mm/dd |
Yomiuri Giants | 1 | Sadaharu Oh | 1B | 1989/3/16 |
Yomiuri Giants | 3 | Shigeo Nagashima | 3B | 1974/11/21 |
Yomiuri Giants | 4 | Toshio Kurosawa | OF | 1947/7/9 |
Yomiuri Giants | 14 | Eiji Sawamura | P | 1947/7/9 |
Yomiuri Giants | 16 | Tetsuharu Kawakami | 1B | 1965/1/18 |
Yomiuri Giants | 34 | Masaichi Kaneda | P | 1970/4/2 |
Hanshin Tigers | 10 | Fumio Fujimura | 3B | 1958/11/30 |
Hanshin Tigers | 11 | Minoru Murayama | P | 1972/11/2 |
Hanshin Tigers | 23 | Yoshio Yoshida | SS | 1987/10/13 |
Chunichi Dragons | 10 | Tsuguhiro Hattori | P, C | 1960/3/20 |
Chunichi Dragons | 15 | Michio Nishizawa | 1B, P | 1959/3/15 |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 3 | Sachio Kinugasa | 3B, 1B | 1987/9/21 |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 8 | Koji Yamamoto | OF | 1986/10/27 |
Hiroshima Toyo Carp | 15 | Hiroki Kuroda | P | 2016/11/1 |
Nippon Ham Fighters | 100 | Yoshinori Ohkoso | Owner | 2009/2/1 |
Seibu Lions | 24 | Kazuhisa Inao | P | 2012/7/4 |
Rakuten Golden Eagles | 10 | Fans | Fan | 2004/12/17 |
Yoshinori Ohkoso (Fighters No. 100) was not an actual player, but the first owner of Nippon-Ham Fighters.
Toshio Kurosawa (Giants No. 4) died in the middle of his career by typhoid fever. The team retired his number to honor him.
The table below shows the statistics of the players whose numbers have been retired.
Batting Stats:
Player | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | OPS |
Sadaharu Oh | 2831 | 9250 | 2786 | 868 | 2170 | 84 | 2390 | 1319 | 0.301 | 0.446 | 1.080 |
Shigeo Nagashima | 2186 | 8094 | 2471 | 444 | 1522 | 190 | 969 | 729 | 0.305 | 0.379 | 0.919 |
Toshio Kurosawa | 484 | 1769 | 459 | 7 | 201 | 80 | 301 | 135 | 0.259 | 0.368 | 0.697 |
Tetsuharu Kawakami | 1979 | 7500 | 2351 | 181 | 1319 | 220 | 823 | 422 | 0.313 | 0.383 | 0.850 |
Fumio Fujimura | 1558 | 5648 | 1694 | 224 | 1126 | 103 | 631 | 424 | 0.300 | 0.374 | 0.876 |
Yoshio Yoshida | 2007 | 6980 | 1864 | 66 | 434 | 350 | 498 | 325 | 0.267 | 0.321 | 0.676 |
Tsuguhiro Hattori | 855 | 1867 | 447 | 33 | 208 | 61 | 167 | 198 | 0.239 | 0.304 | 0.633 |
Michio Nishizawa | 1704 | 5999 | 1717 | 212 | 940 | 56 | 501 | 478 | 0.286 | 0.342 | 0.787 |
Sachio Kinugasa | 2677 | 9404 | 2543 | 504 | 1448 | 266 | 931 | 1587 | 0.270 | 0.345 | 0.820 |
Koji Yamamoto | 2284 | 8052 | 2339 | 536 | 1475 | 231 | 1168 | 1123 | 0.290 | 0.381 | 0.923 |
Player | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | OPS |
Pitching Stats:
Player | W | L | W-L% | ERA | G | GS | CG | IP | BB | SO | WHIP |
Eiji Sawamura | 63 | 22 | 0.741 | 1.74 | 105 | 86 | 65 | 765.1 | 301 | 554 | 1.027 |
Masaichi Kaneda | 400 | 298 | 0.573 | 2.34 | 944 | 569 | 365 | 5526 | 1808 | 4490 | 1.073 |
Minoru Murayama | 222 | 147 | 0.602 | 2.09 | 509 | 348 | 192 | 3050 | 639 | 2271 | 0.954 |
Kazuhisa Inao | 276 | 137 | 0.668 | 1.98 | 756 | 304 | 179 | 3599 | 719 | 2574 | 0.989 |
Tsuguhiro Hattori | 112 | 65 | 0.633 | 2.81 | 259 | 165 | 102 | 1576 | 409 | 540 | 1.202 |
Michio Nishizawa | 60 | 65 | 0.480 | 2.23 | 231 | 124 | 66 | 1297 | 742 | 404 | 1.352 |
Hiroki Kuroda | 124 | 105 | 0.541 | 3.55 | 321 | 294 | 76 | 2021 | 504 | 1461 | 1.246 |
Source is
ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/野球界の永久欠番
Photo: Hiroshima's No.3, Sachio Kinugasa
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