Salaries of NPB Yakult Swallows Players in 2015

Tokyo Yakult Swallows belong to Central League in NPB. Poor Swallows spent 2 consecutive years in last place in the league. The players cannot expect salary raise much. Wladimir Balentien who has the single-season home run record (60) in NPB, takes the highest salary. The list below shows annual salaries of Swallows players.

No.	Player	Pos.	Age	From	Salary (10000 yen)	$	Euro
4	Wladimir Balentien	OF	30	Curaçao	30,000	2,503,200	2,341,200
85	Lastings Milledge	OF	30	US	22,800	1,902,432	1,779,312
17	Yoshihisa Naruse	P	29	Japan	20,000	1,668,800	1,560,800
34	Tony Barnette	P	31	US	18,600	1,551,984	1,451,544
19	Masanori Ishikawa	P	35	Japan	18,000	1,501,920	1,404,720
58	Logan Ondrusek	P	30	US	14,000	1,168,160	1,092,560
2	Keiji Obiki	IF	30	Japan	10,000	834,400	780,400
25	Shohei Tateyama	P	34	Japan	9,000	750,960	702,360
33	Kazuhiro Hatakeyama	IF	32	Japan	9,000	750,960	702,360
5	Shingo Kawabata	IF	27	Japan	8,500	709,240	663,340
23	Tetsuto Yamada	IF	22	Japan	8,000	667,520	624,320
7	Hiroyasu Tanaka	IF	32	Japan	7,500	625,800	585,300
29	Yasuhiro Ogawa	P	24	Japan	6,500	542,360	507,260
41	Yuhei Takai	OF	30	Japan	6,000	500,640	468,240
53	Orlando Román	P	36	Puerto Rico	5,200	433,888	405,808
20	Tetsuya Yamamoto	P	29	Japan	4,600	383,824	358,984
21	Kenichi Matsuoka	P	32	Japan	4,550	379,652	355,082
15	Kyohei Muranaka	P	27	Japan	4,000	333,760	312,160
52	Yuhei Nakamura	C	24	Japan	4,000	333,760	312,160
10	Ryosuke Morioka	IF	30	Japan	3,800	317,072	296,552
12	Taichi Ishiyama	P	26	Japan	3,800	317,072	296,552
9	Yasushi Iihara	OF	32	Japan	3,650	304,556	284,846
14	Ryo Akiyoshi	P	26	Japan	3,200	267,008	249,728
66	Nagisa Arakaki	P	35	Japan	2,600	216,944	202,904
70	Ryosuke Yagi	P	24	Japan	2,600	216,944	202,904
47	Katsuki Akagawa	P	24	Japan	2,400	200,256	187,296
50	Tsuyoshi Ueda	OF	26	Japan	2,400	200,256	187,296
11	Yoshinori Sato	P	25	Japan	2,300	191,912	179,492
26	Kentaro Kyuko	P	28	Japan	2,300	191,912	179,492
8	Shinichi Takeuchi	IF	31	Japan	2,200	183,568	171,688
31	Yuichi Matsumoto	OF	34	Brazil	2,200	183,568	171,688
54	Masato Nakazawa	P	30	Japan	1,960	163,542	152,958
28	Masahiko Tanaka	C	33	Japan	1,800	150,192	140,472
16	Ryohei Kiya	P	26	Japan	1,680	140,179	131,107
18	Toshihiro Sugiura	P	23	Japan	1,600	133,504	124,864
42	Yuki Shichijo	P	30	Japan	1,600	133,504	124,864
60	Masayoshi Miwa	IF	31	Japan	1,600	133,504	124,864
24	Takahiro Araki	IF	27	Japan	1,550	129,332	120,962
59	Takahiro Imanami	IF	30	Japan	1,550	129,332	120,962
0	Wataru Hiyane	OF	27	Japan	1,500	125,160	117,060
22	Shingo Takeshita	P	24	Japan	1,500	125,160	117,060
40	Masato Furuno	P	28	Japan	1,360	113,478	106,134
3	Naomichi Nishiura	IF	24	Japan	1,200	100,128	93,648
32	Ren Kazahari	P	22	Japan	1,200	100,128	93,648
46	Ryota Yachi	IF	24	Japan	1,100	91,784	85,844
68	Hirofumi Yamanaka	P	29	Japan	1,100	91,784	85,844
38	Tetsuya Terada	P	28	Japan	1,000	83,440	78,040
43	Masaya Emura	P	27	Japan	1,000	83,440	78,040
44	Keiji Iwahashi	P	24	Japan	1,000	83,440	78,040
57	Jun Matsui	OF	27	Japan	900	75,096	70,236
30	Akihisa Nishida	C	23	Japan	800	66,752	62,432
39	Yusaku Nakamoto	P	26	Japan	800	66,752	62,432
45	Hiroaki Dohi	P	24	Japan	800	66,752	62,432
63	Suguru Ino	C	31	Japan	800	66,752	62,432
62	Takeaki Tokuyama	P	25	Japan	790	65,918	61,652
64	Nariaki Kawasaki	OF	29	Japan	780	65,083	60,871
51	Ryota Fujii	C	26	Japan	750	62,580	58,530
37	Yudai Hoshino	C	26	Japan	720	60,077	56,189
49	Tatsuya Oba	P	26	Japan	720	60,077	56,189
65	Izumi Hara	OF	22	Japan	700	58,408	54,628
36	Ryuhei Kawakami	OF	22	Japan	620	51,733	48,385
67	Ryo Hirai	P	24	Japan	620	51,733	48,385
55	Koji Yamakawa	C	18	Japan	600	50,064	46,824
56	Nobuyuki Okumura	IF	19	Japan	560	46,726	43,702
35	Kengo Tagawa	P	20	Japan	550	45,892	42,922
61	Yuto Koyama	P	19	Japan	500	41,720	39,020
91	Hugo Kanabushi	P	25	Brazil	460	38,382	35,898

Source is Pro-Yakyu Senshu Data Meikan 2015, Takarajima sha. プロ野球選手データ名鑑　2015、宝島社

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