The 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 23, 2014, for the 50th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...

The 2015 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 22, 2015, for the 51st time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur...

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...

NPB regulations, such as player contracts, draft and commissioner authority. Nippon Professional Baseball Agreement came into effect on June 21, 1951...

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...

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...

The 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball realignment was a series of events that occurred during the 2004 Nippon Professional Baseball season that changed...

Fighters. Kagiya was drafted by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the 3rd round of the 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. On September 5, 2024...

World Baseball Classic as a member of the Japan national baseball team. He was considered by many to be the best pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball prior...

Diego Padres, and for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Martinez graduated from Belen...

Yamagata Central High School, Yamagata, Yamagata, Japan; see 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball draft Central Catholic High School (disambiguation) Central High...

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles selected Anraku in the 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. Anraku pitched parts of nine seasons with the Eagles,...

25, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has previously played...

Major League Baseball rather than turn professional in Japan. The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters decided to draft him in the 2012 NPB Draft nevertheless...

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...

drafted with the first pick by the Yokohama DeNA BayStars in 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. He has been selected as an all-star five times in his...

Professional baseball in Japan first started in the 1920s, but it was not until the Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-nippon Tōkyō Yakyū...

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which operated from 1936 to 1949, before reorganizing in 1950 as Nippon Professional Baseball. The league's dominant team was Tokyo Kyojin (renamed the Yomiuri...

Koga, Ibaraki) is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball former player. A native of Ibaraki, Ishizaki started playing baseball in grade school and continued...

runs in his university career. Draft He was the Hanshin Tigers' 3rd pick in the 2014 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. On November 26, he signed a contract...

Baseball Challenge League, operates independently from Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Japan also has a variety of independent semi-professional leagues...

Japanese former professional baseball manager and player. He is former manager of the Chunichi Dragons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He is considered...

Diamondbacks and 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...

(1993–1995), as well as the Kintetsu Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) in 1992. In July 2014, he was named MLB's first ambassador for inclusion...

have had successful careers in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Baek In-chun played professionally in Japan from 1963 to 1981, compiling 209...

from Nippon Professional Baseball. The team that played in the 2006 World Baseball Classic included Japanese players from Major League Baseball as well...

in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. He played college baseball at The Master's University and was drafted by the...

October 11, 1989) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Sugano went to Tokai University...

Fighters. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters selected Urano with the second selection in the 2013 Nippon Professional Baseball draft. On April 5, 2014, Urano made...