NIPPON BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
12/31/2022
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
ORIX Buffaloes César Soto 1st Man Chio 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Hisanobu Watanabe 2nd Hisanobu Watanabe 2nd 2nd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tetsuzan Araki 3rd Tetsuzan Araki 6th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Yasuhiko Sato 4th Yasuhiko Sato 3rd 3rd
Hanshin Tigers Bai-luo Thean 5th Bai-luo Thean 4th 5th
Saitama Seibu Lions Bao-tian Seah 6th Bao-tian Seah 7th 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yoriyuki Ikeda 7th Yoriyuki Ikeda 5th 7th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Roku Sato 8th Roku Sato 8th 8th
Yokohama Bay Stars Kichisaburo Miyake 9th Kichisaburo Miyake 9th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Tatsukichi Wakisaka 10th Shigeki Ito 10th 10th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Katsumi Naka 11th Amaraprita Sathasivam 12th 12th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Sadao Miyamoto 12th Han-su Chu 11th 11th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Anujestha Puri 1st Anujestha Puri Tied for 7th 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Paco Jiménez 2nd Paco Jiménez 1st 1st
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Susumu Yamamoto 3rd Susumu Yamamoto 2nd 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Aftab Mengal 4th Aftab Mengal Tied for 7th 7th
ORIX Buffaloes Yeong-il Kim 5th Kohei Matsumoto 3rd 3rd
Chunichi Dragons Tokaji Sato 6th Tokaji Sato Tied for 7th 8th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Seung-chun Sin 7th Kimi Kokura 4th 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Kunimichi Fujii 8th Kunimichi Fujii 5th 6th
Chiba Lotte Marines Sung-jae Yun 9th Sung-jae Yun 7th 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Joon-suk Song 10th Joon-suk Song Tied for 7th 11th
Hanshin Tigers Fo-hian Li 11th Fo-hian Li Tied for 7th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Munoto Oike 12th Nobuharu Sakurai 6th 9th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Saitama Seibu Lions Hyun-soo Yi 1st Hyun-soo Yi 2nd 2nd
Chiba Lotte Marines Ikki Ozaki 2nd Ikki Ozaki 1st 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Toru Yoshikawa 3rd Toru Yoshikawa Tied for 5th 3rd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Shoin Ohara 4th Shoin Ohara Tied for 5th 5th
Yomiuri Giants Hsui-chen Shui 5th Hsui-chen Shui Tied for 5th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Tomokazu Horiuchi 6th Tomokazu Horiuchi Tied for 5th 7th
Chunichi Dragons Tetsuyuki Kaneko 7th Tetsuyuki Kaneko 5th 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Thao Dinh 8th Thao Dinh Tied for 5th 10th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Mito Sai 9th Mito Sai 3rd 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Toshiaki Kawakami 10th Toshiaki Kawakami Tied for 5th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tsu-wee Siew 11th Isoruko Tanaka 4th 8th
ORIX Buffaloes Kichisaburo Ikarashi 12th Kichisaburo Ikarashi Tied for 5th 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Chong-yeol Pak 1st Chong-yeol Pak 1st 1st
Yokohama Bay Stars Dimitri Weniaminoff 2nd Dimitri Weniaminoff Tied for 8th 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Akio Hara 3rd Akio Hara Tied for 8th 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Mashashi Kichikawa 4th Mashashi Kichikawa 8th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Tsuginori Sanu 5th Tsuginori Sanu 2nd 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Natsume Ine 6th Natsume Ine 5th 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Mokichi Kumagai 7th Mokichi Kumagai 6th 6th
ORIX Buffaloes Koryusai Yamamoto 8th Koryusai Yamamoto Tied for 8th 11th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kiemon Kouno 9th Kiemon Kouno 3rd 4th
Hanshin Tigers Naonobu Asano 10th Naonobu Asano Tied for 8th 12th
Saitama Seibu Lions Takahiro Hashimoto 11th Takahiro Hashimoto 7th 10th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Koto Nakashima 12th Koto Nakashima 4th 8th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Saitama Seibu Lions Alex Lontok 1st Alex Lontok Tied for 7th 1st
Yomiuri Giants Yeon-kyu So 2nd Yeon-kyu So 2nd 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Monzaemon Kouda 3rd Monzaemon Kouda 3rd 3rd
Yokohama Bay Stars Manuel Gómez 4th Manuel Gómez Tied for 7th 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yen-nien Gao 5th Yen-nien Gao 4th 4th
Chiba Lotte Marines Sadakuno Sato 6th Sadakuno Sato 5th 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Motoki Umaba 7th Motoki Umaba Tied for 7th 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Jorge Balbuena 8th Jorge Balbuena Tied for 7th 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Isei Hirayama 9th Lang Wie 1st 6th
Hanshin Tigers Takeji Honda 10th Seung-hwa Pak 6th 8th
ORIX Buffaloes Tomohiko Goto 11th Tomohiko Goto Tied for 7th 11th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Naoki Ogawa 12th Naoki Ogawa 7th 12th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Seiichi Nakayama 1st Otojiro Kakuta 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Rahimat Mash'al 2nd Rahimat Mash'al 2nd 2nd
Yokohama Bay Stars Ramón De Jesús 3rd Ramón De Jesús 3rd 3rd
Chunichi Dragons Yoshihisa Kanda 4th Yoshihisa Kanda 9th 8th
Saitama Seibu Lions Zhao-ying Gai 5th Zhao-ying Gai 4th 4th
ORIX Buffaloes Sang-soo Kim 6th Sang-soo Kim Tied for 9th 10th
Hanshin Tigers Myeong-hun Ye 7th Myeong-hun Ye 5th 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Wei-hong Jiao 8th Wei-hong Jiao 7th 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Ryuzaburo Ohayashi 9th Sachi Yamashita 6th 7th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Sosuke Ozawa 10th Sosuke Ozawa Tied for 9th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Matsu Shibata 11th Matsu Shibata 8th 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yunosuke Kawagishi 12th Yunosuke Kawagishi Tied for 9th 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Ming-hoa Xuan 1st Ming-hoa Xuan Tied for 2nd 2nd
Hanshin Tigers Tetsunori Tamura 2nd Tetsunori Tamura Tied for 2nd 3rd
Yomiuri Giants Akihisa Tamura 3rd Akihisa Tamura Tied for 2nd 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Feng-xiang Xiu 4th Feng-xiang Xiu Tied for 2nd 5th
Chunichi Dragons Ieyoshi Yamada 5th Ieyoshi Yamada 1st 1st
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yoshihisa Nan 6th Yoshihisa Nan Tied for 2nd 6th
ORIX Buffaloes Hoang Kieu 7th Hoang Kieu Tied for 2nd 7th
Saitama Seibu Lions Toyotomi Suzuki 8th Toyotomi Suzuki Tied for 2nd 8th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Myung-joo Ku 9th Myung-joo Ku Tied for 2nd 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Juro Ine 10th Juro Ine Tied for 2nd 10th
Chiba Lotte Marines Shigenobu Mori 11th Shigenobu Mori 2nd 11th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kensaku Suzuki 12th Kensaku Suzuki Tied for 2nd 12th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yokohama Bay Stars Du-yang Tong 1st Du-yang Tong Tied for 7th 5th
Chiba Lotte Marines Toyokazu Murayama 2nd Toyokazu Murayama 7th 6th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Wei-fang Li 3rd Wei-fang Li 1st 1st
Yomiuri Giants Ji-hyun Kim 4th Ji-hyun Kim Tied for 7th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Kwi-tae Pak 5th Kwi-tae Pak 4th 2nd
Saitama Seibu Lions Sung-joon Kim 6th Sung-joon Kim Tied for 7th 9th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kosaku Fujita 7th Kosaku Fujita 2nd 3rd
Chunichi Dragons Masujiro Hayagawa 8th Masujiro Hayagawa 3rd 4th
Hanshin Tigers Mao-you Wang 9th Mao-you Wang Tied for 7th 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Takuya Sugimoto 10th Xun Chong 5th 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Min-chul Kim 11th Min-chul Kim Tied for 7th 12th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Quan Yip 12th Takeru Yamada 6th 11th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yokohama Bay Stars Cheng-qian Xia 1st Almas bin Su'ud 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Shigeki Sasaki 2nd Qing-nian Wa 4th 3rd
ORIX Buffaloes Robert Avila 3rd Eisuke Ota 2nd 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Namboku Kojima 4th Namboku Kojima 5th 5th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Koryusai Uchida 5th Koryusai Uchida 3rd 4th
Yomiuri Giants Koichi Yamasaki 6th Koichi Yamasaki 6th 6th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shoin Matsushina 7th Nobuhiko Miyashita 7th 7th
Hanshin Tigers Yodo Hirayama 8th Hirotada Hori 8th 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Akihiro Hamada 9th Ryunosuke Chikafuji 9th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Ekrem Vedat 10th Kazuyoshi Tada 10th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Shinzo Sasaki 11th Shinzo Sasaki 11th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Takeji Ogawa 12th Takeji Ogawa 12th 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Shigeki Sasaki 1st Shigeki Sasaki 1st 1st
Yomiuri Giants Yohachi Adachi 2nd Yohachi Adachi 2nd 2nd
ORIX Buffaloes Munenori Sato 3rd Munenori Sato 3rd 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Suketsune Daikawa 4th Suketsune Daikawa 4th 4th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Naoaki Asano 5th Naoaki Asano 5th 5th
Chunichi Dragons Nobuhiko Kokura Tied for 6th Hiroharu Iwasaki 6th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Tadasuke Saito Tied for 6th Naomi Matsunaga Tied for 6th Tied for 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Akira Hoshino Tied for 6th Yukinaga Masuda Tied for 6th Tied for 6th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kichisaburo Matsui Tied for 6th Chi-hun Kim Tied for 6th Tied for 6th
Saitama Seibu Lions Razan Matsubara Tied for 6th On Lok Tied for 6th Tied for 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yuji Fujita Tied for 6th Yao-bang Zeng Tied for 6th Tied for 6th
Yokohama Bay Stars Abhijeet Yalamanchilli Tied for 6th Toshiharu Murakami Tied for 6th Tied for 6th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
ORIX Buffaloes Robert Avila 1st Robert Avila 1st 1st
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Kazutoshi Abe 2nd Kazutoshi Abe 2nd 2nd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Pong-su Yi 3rd Pong-su Yi 3rd 3rd
Chiba Lotte Marines Shohei Nakayama 4th Shohei Nakayama 4th 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Yasuhiro Okada 5th Yasuhiro Okada 5th 5th
Chunichi Dragons Takaaki Fukuda 6th Takaaki Fukuda 6th 6th
Yomiuri Giants Shi-fa Wong 7th Shi-fa Wong 7th 7th
Hanshin Tigers Tokugawa Shimizu 8th Tokugawa Shimizu 8th 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tadahisa Higuchi 9th Tadahisa Higuchi 9th 9th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kantaro Suzuki 10th Kantaro Suzuki 10th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Xuan-ling Liu Tied for 11th Xuan-ling Liu 11th 11th
Yokohama Bay Stars In-gu Ch'oe Tied for 11th In-gu Ch'oe Tied for 11th Tied for 11th
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