I can't believe I wasted my braincells going through all the stuff in this issue, so I might as well share with you guys. It's pretty astounding what they'll put in these sometimes.
The first part had lots of uniform number changes, and more fun, some name changes. Sadly I can't input Japanese characters here (I'll edit in later) but the most amusing to me were that first, Lotte's Tsuyoshi Nishioka went from being "TSUYOSHI" to being... Tsuyoshi Nishioka (西岡剛). In other interestingness, Hanshin's Kentaro Sekimoto changed the kanji for his first name from 健太郎 to 賢太郎. It's still Kentaro, just spelled different, as it were. The first "Ken" means healthy, the second one means wise.
Okay, so random stats breaking down the 830 players in the NPB meikan this year:
Birthplace by regions:
Hokkaido & Tohoku: 52 (6.82%)
Kanto: 211 (27.69%)
Chubu: 110 (14.44%)
Kansai: 194 (25.46%)
Chugoku: 39 (5.12%)
Shikoku: 38 (4.99%)
Kyushu & Okinawa 118 (15.49%)
Foreign countries: 68 (8.92%)
Top 5 prefectures:
1. Osaka, 80
2. Kanagawa, 53
3. Hyogo, 43
4. Tokyo, 40
5. Kyoto, 34
Top 4 High Schools:
1. PL Gakuen, 20
2. Yokohama, 18
3. Osaka Toin, 12
4. Urawa Gakuin, 11
Top 3 Universities:
1. Aoyama Gakuin, 19
1. Tohoku Fukushi, 19
3. Hosei, 16
Top 5 Industrial/Club Teams:
1. Shikoku Island League, 12
2. NTT Nishinihon, 9
2. Japan Express, 9
2. Toyota, 9
2. JFE Nishinihon, 9
Player ages:
40 and above: 12
35-39: 70
30-34: 182
25-29: 304
20-24: 213
19 and below: 49
(They have more of a breakdown in a chart, even with hitters vs. batters at each age. I noticed that Kudoh was listed at 45, then saw two 43-year-old pitchers unnamed, and to my credit it only took me about a minute to realize they meant Lotte's Komiyama and Chunichi's Yamamoto. Next oldest pitchers are three 40-year-olds. I could think of Shimoyanagi and Kida pretty quickly, but if anyone else can come up with the third off the top of their head without looking it up I'll give them a cookie, because I certainly had to go look it up.)
Handedness (Throws/Bats):
R/R: 499
R/L: 132
R/B: 27
L/L: 166
L/R: 5
L/B: 1
(The sole left-handed switch-hitter is Lotte pitcher Takuya Kikoh, in case you are wondering.)
Service time:
21+ years: 10
16-20: 30
11-15: 100
6-10: 230
1-5: 432
0: 28 (draft guys)
Birth month (yes, they really list this):
January: 48
February: 32
March: 38
April: 93
May: 88
June: 98
July: 97
August: 67
September:68
October: 74
November: 65
December: 62
Blood types:
Type A: 289 (143 pitchers 146 fielders)
Type O: 232 (115 pitchers 117 fielders)
Type B: 172 (80 pitchers 92 fielders)
Type AB: 69 (27 pitchers 42 fielders)
Unknown: 68 (41 pitchers 27 fielders)
Average Height/Weight of players in Japan:
Pitchers: 181.94cm / 81.89kg
Fielders: 179.43cm / 81.29kg
Total: 180.66cm / 81.59kg
Top 5 tallest guys:
1. Mike Schultz, P, Hiroshima: 201cm 100kg
2. Tom Davey, P, Orix: 200cm 103kg
3. Ben Kozlowski, P, Hiroshima: 198cm 100kg
4. Julio Zuleta, DH, Lotte: 197cm 113kg
5. Travis Hughes, P, Yokohama: 196cm 106kg
5. Yu Darvish, P, Fighters: 196cm 85kg
5. Matt Kinney, P, Seibu: 196cm 104kg
(For the record the only full Japanese guys in the top ten are Seibu's Koki Fujiwara at 195cm/80kg and Yomiuri's Ken Kadokura at 193cm/90kg.)
Top 3 shortest guys:
1. Kensuke Uchimura, taxi squad IF, Rakuten: 163cm 65kg
2. Kazuya Murata, OF, Fighters: 165cm 65kg
3. Makoto Kosaka, IF, Yomiuri: 168cm 65kg
3. Masayoshi Miwa, IF, Yakult: 168cm 67kg
(and then a bunch of guys at 169cm. I seriously didn't realize Shingo Nonaka was that short, actually. And of course it's sad that Makoto Kosaka isn't the shortest guy in baseball anymore. Almost as sad as it is that he doesn't play much these days. I used to love Kosaka... damn Giants!)
Top 5 cars driven by players:
1. Benz, 214
2. BMW, 59
3. Celsior, 34
4. Hummer, 19
5. Porsche, 16
I'm not entering the next part, which is about what "types" of women the single players like, and their favorite actresses (though I will say it is depressing that Nagasawa Masami tops out the list).
Top 5 hobbies:
1. Listening to music, 149
2. Watching movies, 80
3. Shopping, 75
4. Golf, 70
5. Fishing/boating, 68
(for the record, "computers/internet" is #16 with 12 players)
Also, in case you're wondering, which you're not, my laptop hard drive is still completely dead, but I'm running Knoppix while trying to figure out what I'll do in the long run. Whee.
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