Central League Salary Guide (2026)

The 'guide' on this page is a salary level derived only from this season's first-team statistics; it is neither an actual salary nor a reported estimate. Central League players whose guide comes out above the first-team minimum guarantee are grouped by club: the eight highest guides here, the rest laid out on each club's own page.

What this figure does and does not look at

Derived from the first-team official games of this season (2026).

  • This is a guide figure derived from performance alone; it does not look at anything else. Popularity / merchandise / publicity / team circumstances are not included.
  • Remaining years on multi-year deals and performance bonuses are not taken into account.
  • Years in NPB and contract rights such as free agency are not taken into account. The guide comes from performance alone, so players with few years tend to come out above their actual salary, while players with many years or on a multi-year deal tend to come out below it.
  • Injury information is not used. Time missed shows up only as fewer appearances.
  • The figure is a guide (estimate) derived from performance, not a judgement of the player or the contract. Actual salaries are settled between club and player.
  • Fielding (errors and range), the different demands of each fielding position such as catcher, and save and hold totals are not looked at. Only players who appeared in first-team official games are covered, and players with little playing time come out low. Only players whose guide comes out above the first-team minimum guarantee are listed.
  • The payroll used as the yardstick does not include foreign players, so the guide for a foreign player is a reference figure worked out on the same yardstick. Players who moved during the season are shown separately for each club.
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Yomiuri

Top 8 by guide

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Rank Player Yrs Guide PA / IP
14 井上 温大 5 ¥354.1M 133.3 IP
24 ダルベック 1 ¥318.9M 512 PA
48 泉口 友汰 3 ¥222.4M 479 PA
56 大城 卓三 9 ¥205.2M 345 PA
69 佐々木 俊輔 3 ¥183.4M 359 PA
77 堀田 賢慎 5 ¥166.1M 36.3 IP
78 ウィットリー 1 ¥164.1M 81.7 IP
90 マルティネス 9 ¥154.2M 49.0 IP

Hanshin

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Rank Player Yrs Guide PA / IP
2 佐藤 輝明 6 ¥569.7M 554 PA
3 森下 翔太 4 ¥532.1M 560 PA
5 村上 頌樹 6 ¥507.3M 168.3 IP
9 髙橋 遥人 9 ¥428.2M 145.0 IP
21 大山 悠輔 10 ¥322.2M 533 PA
22 才木 浩人 10 ¥321.1M 139.0 IP
70 工藤 泰成 2 ¥182.9M 51.7 IP
100 近本 光司 8 ¥141.5M 350 PA
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DeNA

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Rank Player Yrs Guide PA / IP
11 牧 秀悟 6 ¥396.9M 427 PA
15 東 克樹 9 ¥349.6M 150.0 IP
31 筒香 嘉智 17 ¥275M 358 PA
46 度会 隆輝 3 ¥230.5M 468 PA
47 佐野 恵太 10 ¥228.3M 488 PA
63 レイノルズ 1 ¥190.8M 58.0 IP
72 石田 裕太郎 3 ¥174.2M 113.7 IP
79 宮﨑 敏郎 14 ¥163M 359 PA

Hiroshima

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Rank Player Yrs Guide PA / IP
45 坂倉 将吾 10 ¥231.2M 516 PA
49 栗林 良吏 6 ¥221.9M 110.3 IP
84 菊池 涼介 15 ¥159.2M 485 PA
85 モンテロ 2 ¥159M 321 PA
87 ファビアン 2 ¥155.4M 345 PA
123 佐々木 泰 2 ¥118.3M 372 PA
129 玉村 昇悟 6 ¥114.5M 67.3 IP
135 鈴木 健矢 7 ¥111.3M 63.3 IP
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Chunichi

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Rank Player Yrs Guide PA / IP
10 柳 裕也 10 ¥404.7M 150.0 IP
13 大野 雄大 16 ¥364.8M 130.7 IP
23 細川 成也 10 ¥320.2M 569 PA
26 金丸 夢斗 2 ¥289.1M 155.7 IP
34 マラー 2 ¥266.4M 117.3 IP
60 サノー 1 ¥200.8M 332 PA
62 村松 開人 4 ¥193.3M 493 PA
67 福永 裕基 4 ¥188.1M 402 PA

Yakult

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Rank Player Yrs Guide PA / IP
18 山野 太一 6 ¥325.2M 148.3 IP
27 サンタナ 6 ¥287.3M 437 PA
33 奥川 恭伸 7 ¥270.2M 144.0 IP
71 増田 珠 8 ¥182.4M 405 PA
73 長岡 秀樹 7 ¥173.7M 494 PA
111 内山 壮真 6 ¥126.6M 335 PA
117 赤羽 由紘 5 ¥122.4M 304 PA
125 高梨 裕稔 12 ¥117.5M 74.3 IP
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M means million yen

How to read this page

The guide looks at how much a hitter added to run scoring, or how many runs a pitcher prevented, together with playing time, and turns that into a yen figure using the league's overall salary level as the yardstick. Only first-team official statistics go into it: fielding quality, popularity, years in NPB and team circumstances do not.

Tables are ordered from the highest guide downwards. Only players whose guide comes out above the first-team minimum guarantee are listed. Players with little playing time accumulate little, so their guide comes out low. Figures are rounded for display, so totals can differ by small amounts.

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