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    The 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 26, 2017, for the 53rd time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...
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    The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 20, 2016, for the 52nd time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...
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    The 2018 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 25, 2018, for the 54th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...
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    Tomoyuki Sugano (category Nippon Professional Baseball MVP Award winners)
    Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)...
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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...
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  • The 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment was a series of events that occurred during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball season that changed...
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    The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ, Hokkaidō Nippon-Hamu Faitāzu) is a Japanese professional baseball team based in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaidō...
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    Kaima Taira (category Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers)
    Saitama Seibu Lions with the team's fourth selection in the 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft out of Yaeyama Commercial High School. Taira spent the...
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    Carter Stewart (category Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers)
    November 2, 1999) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Stewart attended and graduated...
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  • Thumbnail for Yuta Watanabe (baseball)
    2017, Watanabe was drafted as a developmental player by the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in the 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. From 2018 to 2019 season...
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  • players under control of each team created in the fall of 2005 at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). This system was established in 2005 to create an environment...
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    Kotaro Otake (category Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers)
    Big6 Baseball League. On October 26, 2017, Otake was not drafted as a registered player under control in the 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft, but...
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    Shohei Ohtani (category Nippon Professional Baseball designated hitters)
    Major League Baseball rather than turn professional in Japan. The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters decided to draft him in the 2012 NPB Draft nevertheless...
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    season in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Orix Buffaloes. The Mariners selected Jones in the first round of the 2003 MLB draft. He came up...
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    1979–1988, 1994–present) Japan has had professional baseball since the 1930s. Nippon Professional Baseball consists of two leagues, the Central League...
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    Kazuhito Tadano (category Nippon Professional Baseball coaches)
    was expected to be a high draft pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball draft in 2002. However, no Japanese team drafted him due to a gay porn video...
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  • Thumbnail for Nick Martinez (baseball)
    Diego Padres, and for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Martinez graduated from Belen...
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    Jefry Yan (category Minor league baseball players)
    a Dominican professional baseball pitcher in the Colorado Rockies organization. He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the...
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    is an American professional baseball designated hitter who is a free agent. He has previously played in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri...
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    Kodai Senga (category Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers)
    Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2023 and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)...
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    Washington Nationals and Minnesota Twins, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. Stevenson was a member of the Lafayette...
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    Munetaka Murakami (category Nippon Professional Baseball third basemen)
    Japanese professional baseball infielder for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Munetaka started playing baseball at five...
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    Kōtarō Kiyomiya (category Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen)
    1999) is a Japanese baseball player who currently plays for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League as...
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    Richard Sunagawa (category Nippon Professional Baseball infielders)
    October 26, 2017, Richard Sunagawa was drafted as a developmental player by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the 2017 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. In the...
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    Tadahito Iguchi (category Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen)
    a Japanese served professional baseball second baseman and former manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). As a member...
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  • Bryan Sammons (category Baseball players from Wilmington, North Carolina)
    American professional baseball pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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    Hiromitsu Ochiai (category Nippon Professional Baseball first basemen)
    Japanese former professional baseball manager and player. He is former manager of the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is considered...
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  • have had successful careers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Baek In-chun played professionally in Japan from 1963 to 1981, compiling 209...
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    Kensuke Kondoh (category Nippon Professional Baseball catchers)
    is a Japanese professional baseball catcher, outfielder, and third baseman for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has...
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    Michael Tonkin (category Nippon Professional Baseball pitchers)
    New York Mets, and New York Yankees, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He made his MLB debut with the Twins...
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