2002-3 Free Agents

• October 31 through November 11: Eligable players turn in a declaration that they wish to pursue being a free agent to their respective ball clubs.
• November 12: The teams pass on the declarations to the Commissioner's Office.
• November 13: The ban on talking to other ball clubs (domestic and foreign) is lifted and negotiations may begin.

Next, we have the players who weren't released and are qualified to declare free agency:

Central League				Pacific League
Team	Pos	Player		Team	Pos	Player
YG YS CD HT HC YBS	P P IF OF P C IF IF P P IF OF P IF OF P C C IF OF OF OF OF P P C IF IF OF OF	Masumi Kuwata Yasuyuki Kawamoto Kazuhiro Kiyohara Hideki Matsui Shingo Takatsu Atsuya Furuta Katsuyuki Dobashi Chihiro Hamana Masahiro Yamamoto Makoto Kitoh Kazuyoshi Tatsunami Koichi Sekikawa Takehiro Hashimoto Katsumi Hirosawa Shinjiro Hiyama Shinji Sasaoka Shuji Nishiyama Terunobu Seto Kenjiro Nomura Tomonori Maeda Koichi Ogata Kojiro Machida Tomoaki Kanemoto Takashi Saitoh Daisuke Miura Takeshi Nakamura Hirofumi Ogawa Hitoshi Taneda Takahiro Saeki Takanori Suzuki		SL OKB FDH CLM NHF OBW	C C IF OF P P P IF IF P P C OF IF IF OF P IF IF	Tsutomu Itoh Satoshi Nakajima Ken Suzuki Tetsuya Kakiuchi Toyohiko Yoshida Motoyuki Akahori Hiroshi Takamura Akihito Igarashi Norihiro Nakamura Shuji Yoshida Kenichi Wakatabe Koji Bonishi Noriyoshi Ohmichi Kiyoshi Hatsushiba Tadaharu Sakai Yukihiko Satoh Hiroshi Shibakusa Yukio Tanaka Koichi Ohshima

Finally, we have the players who qualified for free agency, but were either released or retired (denoted by an *):

Central League				Pacific League
Team	Pos	Player		Team	Pos	Player
YS CD YBS	P C IF IF IF C IF	Naoya Shimada Susumu Aoyagi* Takahiro Ikeyama* Yasuaki Taihoh* Teruyoshi Kuji Hidekazu Mitsuyama* Hiroo Ishii*		SL OKB FDH CLM OBW	OF P C OF OF IF	Masaji Shimizu* Hiroshi Ishige Kenji Furukubo* Koji Akiyama* Mitsuchika Hirai* Yasuo Fujii*

Whew. Next big project is to get data for 2002 entered.