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Below are the full rosters, including the coaching staffs, of all current Nippon Professional Baseball teams.
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Below are the full rosters, including the coaching staffs, of all current Nippon Professional Baseball teams.
Nippon Professional Baseball or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside of Japan, it is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
The Pacific League, or Pa League, or the Persol Pacific League, due to sponsorship reasons, is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around Japan.
Koji Akiyama is a retired Japanese professional baseball player. He played for the Seibu Lions and the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Shinnosuke Abe is a Japanese former professional baseball player and current manager, who spent his entire 19-year career with Nippon Professional Baseball's Yomiuri Giants, serving as the team's captain from 2007 to 2014. He has twice been named the MVP of the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series, in 2007 and 2010.
Hirokazu Sawamura is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He previously played in NPB for the Yomiuri Giants and the Marines, and has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 212 pounds (96 kg), he throws and bats right-handed.
Sho Iwasaki is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He formerly played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
Tomoki Takata is a Japanese former professional baseball second baseman, and current the second squad infield defense and base running coach for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 67th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.
Liván Moinelo Pita is a Cuban professional baseball pitcher for Vegueros de Pinar del Rio in the Cuban National Series. He has played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in Nippon Professional Baseball since 2017.
Takuya Kai is a Japanese professional baseball catcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
Kotaro Otake is a Japanese Professional baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He played for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks until the 2022 season.
Reiji Kozawa is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball.
Shuto Ogata is a Japanese professional baseball Pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.
The 2021 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 72nd season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950. There were 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League.
A Nippon Professional Baseball roster is a list of players who are allowed by NPB Agreement to play in Nippon Professional Baseball's first leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League. This list is created from each team's Registered players under control ., and can be arbitrarily registered and unregistered at any time during the season. Also, the results of the list changes are announced by the NPB organization every day during the season and can be viewed.
A Registration of players under control is the process of notifying Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) that a professional baseball team affiliated with the NPB has the exclusive right to sign a contract with a specific player. A player whose unified contract documents have been approved and published by NPB is called a Registered player under control or a Controlled player, and under Article 68 of the NPB Agreement, a team has exclusive ownership of a player unless the player becomes a free agent.
The Nippon Professional Baseball Draft Meeting is a conference held by the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) to select rookie players. The official name of the conference is the Rookie Selection Meeting. Since 2009, the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa has been used as the venue. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical with official naming rights since 2013. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D ".
The Developmental Player System is a system that allows players to be held for the purpose of training players separately from the 70 registered players under control of each team created in the fall of 2005 at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).
The 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 24, 2013, for the 49th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D ".