Players' salaries

Since some days ago, the media have been talking about the amazing increase in the salary of Hanshin's captain Toritani. To my mind the players' salaries are not an exciting subject, but since the 2011 annual salaries of almost all the players have been decided, here is the table for those who are interested in:

*M=million yens.

Player	Salary	Change
Pitchers
R. Watanabe	43M	+13%
Y. Kawasaki	43M	-6%
H. Egusa	40M	-20%
S. Fukuhara	36M	-8%
M. Iwata	30M	-21%
K. Uezono	24M	+9%
K. Nishimura	23M	+150%
K. Tsutsui	20M	-13%
K. Katoh	17M	-
N. Sugiyama	15M	-12%
D. Enokida	15M	-
K. Abe	14M	-22%
K. Futagami	14M	-7%
M. Fujihara	13M	+8%
T. Akiyama	12M	+100%
I. Shoh	11,7M	-10%
N. Tsuru	11M	+69%
S. Ishikawa	10M	-9%
T. Kojima	10M	-9%
K. Cheng	10M	-37%
H. Shiranita	9M	-18%
S. Hifumi	7,2M	-
R. Wakatake	6,5M	+8%
A. Iwamoto	6M	-
D. Kiyohara	5,8M	0%
M. Sajikihara	5,5M	-65%
R. Yokoyama	5,4M	+13%
Y. Kuroda	4M	-35%
Y. Tamaki	4M	0%
S. Takada	3M	0%
K. Yoshioka	3M	0%
A. Nohmi	Deferment	-
Catchers
K. Kanoh	35M	-13%
T. Okazaki	11M	-8%
T. Shimizu	9M	-10%
S. Komiyama	9M	+50%
M. Nakatani	6M	-
R. Hashimoto	5,8M	0%
F. Haraguchi	4,8M	0%
Infielders
T. Toritani	260M	+63%
T. Arai	200M	0%
K. Hirano	160M	+100%
K. Sekimoto	75M	-5%
Yamato	15M	+15%
K. Saka	13M	+86%
H. Uemoto	13M	+30%
K. Mizuta	9,5M	+6%
T. Takahama	7,5M	-6%
M. Nohara	7M	+11%
F. Araki	6M	-
I. Morita	5,2M	+4%
S. Tanaka	3M	0%
K. Fujii	2,4M	0%
Outfielders
T. Kanemoto	400M	-20%
R. Asai	35M	+17%
K. Sakurai	32,5M	-7%
W. Lin	31M	+3%
I. Katsuragi	24M	-23%
S. Fujikawa	18M	+80%
K. Shibata	9M	-10%
Y. Kai	8,4M	0%
Y. Nohara	6M	0%
K. Tagami	5,4M	+13%

Sources: Sponichi and Sanspo.

Photo: (c)Daily Sports

Takashi Toritani's salary was increased by 100 million yens.