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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
Nippon Professional Baseball announcement 2022 - NPB.jp (in Japanese) Registration and deregistration of participating players - NPB.jp (in Japanese) Teams index - NPB.jp
The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 75th season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950 and the 90th anniversary of the founding of professional baseball in Japan. There are 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League.
The following is a list of Nippon Professional Baseball players, retired or active. Managers are also included for convenience. Managers are also included for convenience. The list is broken down into a page of each letter to reduce the size.
The 2024 Japan Series (日本シリーズ, Nippon Shiriizu) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2024 season. The 75th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Central League (CL) and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Pacific League (PL).
The 2022 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 73rd season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950. There are 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League .
A Nippon Professional Baseball team's roster is the group of players who are, by the NPB Agreement, allowed to play in Nippon Professional Baseball's top-fight leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League (NPB Agreement, Article 81). [1]
The winners are announced every year in November during Nippon Professional Baseball's awards ceremony called NBP Awards. The first recipient of the award was Eiji Sawamura. [3] The most recent winners, in 2023, are Shōki Murakami, from the Central League, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, from the Pacific League. [4]