2006-07 Free Agents/Retirements

Here is the official free agent qualifiers list [NPB-BIS Official Site- In Japanese], reproduced in English below for all teams for the 2006-07 off-season.

Yomiuri
IF - Makoto Kosaka
OF - Takayuki Ohnishi
P - Yukinaga Maeda
3B- Hiroki Kokubo
P - Kimiyasu Kudoh
OF - Takuya Kimura

Yakult
P - Kazuhisa Ishii
P - Futoshi Yamabe
SS - Shinya Miyamoto
C - Atsuya Furuta
IF - Katsuyuki Dobashi

Yokohoma
OF - Takanori Suzuki
P- Ken Kadokura
IF - Takashi Manei
IF - Takahiro Saeki
IF - Takuro Ishii

Chunichi
P - Denny Tomori
P - Masahiro Yamamoto
IF - Kazuyoshi Tatsunami
P - Eiji Ochiai
OF - Yoshinori Ueda
OF - Kazuki Inoue

Hanshin

OF - Shinjiro Hiyama
OF - Tomoaki Kanemoto
IF - Atsushi Kataoka
IF - Makoto Imaoka
OF - Kojiro Machida

Hiroshima
P - Hiroki Kuroda
OF - Tomonori Maeda
P - Ken Takahashi
P - Shinji Sasaoka
OF - Koichi Ogata
IF - Itsuki Asai

Nippon Ham
P - Hideki Okajima
IF - Michihiro Ogasawara
C - Satoshi Nakajima
IF - Yukio Tanaka
IF - Makoto Kaneko

Rakuten

IF - Yuji Yoshioka
IF - Takeshi Yamasaki
P - Hisashi Ogura
OF - Koichi Isobe
P - Toyohiko Yoshida
OF - Koichi Sekikawa
IF - Tadahuru Sakai
P - Yasuyuki Kawamoto
P - Masahiko Kaneda
OF - Tetsuya Iida

Seibu
P - Fumiya Nishiguchi
IF - Hiroyuki Takagi
IF - Akira Etoh
P - Takashi Ishii

Chiba Lotte

IF - Kazuya Fukuura
OF - Saburo Ohmura
OF - Kenji Morozumi
IF - Koichi Hori
OF - Tetsuya Kakiuchi
OF - Jun Inoue

Orix
C - Takeshi Hidaka
IF - Makoto Shiozaki
C - Kosuke Yoshihara
IF - Eiji Mizuguchi
C - Tetsuya Matoyama
OF - Yoshitomo Tani
IF - Kazuhiro Kiyohara

Softbank
OF - Hiroshi Shibahara
P - Shuji Yoshida
IF - Yusuke Torigoe
OF - Noriyoshi Ohmichi
OF - Tatsuya Ide

The following players will retire:

C - Takumi Shiigi (SL)
P - Harumi Sugiyama (SL)
OF - Shiro Teramoto (CLM)
IF - Takaya Hayashi (CLM)
P - Hirotaka Neichi (TRGE)
IF - Masahiro Kawai (CD)
IF - Atsushi Kataoka (HT)
OF - Kojiro Machida (HT)
OF - Tetsuya Iida (TRGE)
C - Katsunori Nomura (TRGE)
P - Shigeo Tamaki (TGRE)
IF - Tadaharu Sakai (TRGE)

[Retired Players NPB-BIS Official Site- In Japanese]