NIPPON BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
12/31/2023
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Hisanobu Watanabe 1st Hisanobu Watanabe 4th 2nd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tetsuzan Araki 2nd Tetsuzan Araki 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Hae-nim Kim 3rd Hae-nim Kim 3rd 4th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Hideki Kawano 4th Shi-kai Wei 11th 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yaichiro Yokoyama 5th Yaichiro Yokoyama 5th 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Hongwu Huang 6th Hongwu Huang 2nd 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Mutsuhito Yamamoto 7th Mutsuhito Yamamoto 10th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Yoshimochi Ando 8th Yoshimochi Ando 6th 6th
Saitama Seibu Lions Sang-your Park 9th Yuan Chen 12th 11th
Yomiuri Giants Toju Yamamoto 10th Mao-you Shih 7th 8th
ORIX Buffaloes Dong-po Li 11th Dong-po Li 8th 10th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Sadanobu Kozawa 12th Eng-hee Pai 9th 12th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Anujestha Puri 1st Anujestha Puri 10th 4th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Aftab Mengal 2nd Hirofumi Rin 1st 1st
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kimi Kokura 3rd Kimi Kokura 3rd 2nd
Yokohama Bay Stars Shi-fu Goei 4th Kosaku Yasuda 4th 5th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tat Xú 5th Tat Xú 2nd 3rd
Saitama Seibu Lions Masakazu Yoshida 6th Rikyu Miyamoto 5th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Akihiro Matsumoto 7th Koi-sho Zhou 6th 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Akio Ikeda 8th Akio Ikeda 9th 10th
Chunichi Dragons Decheng Le 9th Haruki Maeda 7th 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Seung-ook Kim 10th Seung-ook Kim 8th 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Katsunosuki Yasuda 11th Katsunosuki Yasuda 11th 11th
ORIX Buffaloes Han-wu Au 12th Han-wu Au 12th 12th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Shoin Ohara 1st Shoin Ohara 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Hyeok Park 2nd Hyeok Park 10th 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Kazuyuki Matsumoto 3rd Kazuyuki Matsumoto 6th 6th
Yomiuri Giants Motonobu Toiguchi 4th Tuo-zhou Yo 5th 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Hu Lan 5th Hu Lan 2nd 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Huu Guo 6th Hung Li 3rd 3rd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tung-chi Ts'ong 7th Tung-chi Ts'ong 8th 8th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kao-kan Tah 8th Kao-kan Tah 11th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Momoru Suzuki 9th Kunihiko Matsumoto 4th 4th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Lan-fang Lo 10th Lan-fang Lo 9th 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Tian-yun Kan 11th Tian-yun Kan 7th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Nobuharu Samurakami 12th Nobuharu Samurakami 12th 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Bong-hwan Kim 1st Bong-hwan Kim 2nd 1st
Saitama Seibu Lions I-tsing Wang 2nd I-tsing Wang 4th 4th
Hanshin Tigers Takamasa Kokawa 3rd Takamasa Kokawa 3rd 3rd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Heui-chung Yun 4th Heui-chung Yun 7th 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Toin Kouki 5th Toin Kouki 10th 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Hiroya Wakabayashi 6th Hiroya Wakabayashi 6th 6th
Yokohama Bay Stars Yoshimochi Nakamura 7th Ming-feng Tan 1st 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Aki Furukawa 8th Aki Furukawa 11th 11th
Chunichi Dragons Toyoharu Koike 9th Toyoharu Koike 8th 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines Takanibu Tamura 10th Takanibu Tamura 9th 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Yoichibei Kondo 11th Yoichibei Kondo 5th 7th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Cheong-weon Ch'oe 12th Cheong-weon Ch'oe 12th 12th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tsunayoshi Tanaka 1st Tsunayoshi Tanaka 7th 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tsuginori Taguchi 2nd Zi-jun Zong 5th 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Suezo Kato 3rd Suezo Kato 4th 5th
ORIX Buffaloes Katsuhiko Maruyama 4th Katsuhiko Maruyama 2nd 1st
Yokohama Bay Stars Tomiji Tamura 5th Tomiji Tamura 8th 8th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Mamoru Kichida 6th Mamoru Kichida 6th 7th
Yomiuri Giants Jae-young An 7th Horiuchi Arai 3rd 3rd
Chiba Lotte Marines Chin-yau Wei 8th Chin-yau Wei 1st 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Soseki Mori 9th Soseki Mori 12th 12th
Hanshin Tigers Hisashi Ando 10th Hisashi Ando 11th 10th
Chunichi Dragons Pi-ao Tsou 11th Pi-ao Tsou 9th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Gyu-sik Yu 12th Gyu-sik Yu 10th 11th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chunichi Dragons Yoshihisa Kanda 1st Yoshihisa Kanda 2nd 1st
Yokohama Bay Stars Rikiya Shimada 2nd Rikiya Shimada 5th 3rd
Saitama Seibu Lions Baber Khan 3rd Baber Khan 4th 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tai fat Lee 4th Tai fat Lee 3rd 4th
ORIX Buffaloes Masuhiro Kikuchi 5th Masuhiro Kikuchi 10th 9th
Hanshin Tigers Zhi-fu Pian 6th Zhi-fu Pian 6th 6th
Yomiuri Giants Harumi Takaki 7th Harumi Takaki 8th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Byung-ki Chong 8th Byung-ki Chong 1st 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Sun-jae Kim 9th Sun-jae Kim 11th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tsing Qu 10th Tsing Qu 7th 8th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yoshimasa Kono 11th Yoshimasa Kono 9th 10th
Chiba Lotte Marines Masato Okamura 12th Masato Okamura 12th 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
ORIX Buffaloes Hoang Kieu 1st Hoang Kieu 9th 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Wei-hong Jiao 2nd Wei-hong Jiao 8th 3rd
Hanshin Tigers Hyung-ki Kim 3rd Hyung-ki Kim 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Hoshi Hori 4th Hoshi Hori 3rd 4th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kinzo Kamida 5th Junnosuke Hirose 2nd 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Hiroyasu Miyazaki 6th Hiroyasu Miyazaki 4th 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Lúcio Hussa 7th Jiao-long Xun 6th 7th
Yokohama Bay Stars Iemitsu Harada 8th Iemitsu Harada 12th 12th
Saitama Seibu Lions Lu-shan Zhu 9th Lu-shan Zhu 11th 11th
Yomiuri Giants Myeong-wan Pae 10th Myeong-wan Pae 7th 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Susumu Sai 11th Susumu Sai 10th 10th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Quon Mar 12th Quon Mar 5th 8th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Rahimat Mash'al 1st Kansuke Sanu 2nd 1st
Hanshin Tigers Masayoshi Sai 2nd Masayoshi Sai 3rd 3rd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tamotsu Yamashita 3rd Tamotsu Yamashita 7th 6th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Sumitomo Suzuki 4th Sumitomo Suzuki 1st 2nd
ORIX Buffaloes Shirai Komatsu 5th Kyung-hwan Pang 5th 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Hidemichi Kojima 6th Hidemichi Kojima 10th 10th
Chunichi Dragons Gwang-sam Kim 7th Gwang-sam Kim 9th 8th
Yomiuri Giants Sakutaro Miyamoto 8th Sakutaro Miyamoto 12th 12th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Minoru Kogawa 9th Masahiro Yamamoto 4th 5th
Saitama Seibu Lions Kiyonobu Nakamura 10th Kiyonobu Nakamura 8th 9th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yong-soo Sok Tied for 11th Yong-soo Sok 11th 11th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Nobukazu Mori Tied for 11th Nobukazu Mori 6th 7th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Dong-kwan Kim 1st Dong-kwan Kim 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Felipe Sánchez 2nd Tasuku Mori 3rd 2nd
ORIX Buffaloes Naganori Sakaguchi 3rd Hisato Okubo 6th 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Bi`nh Trieu 4th Bi`nh Trieu 2nd 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tsuyoshi Tadokoro 5th Naonobu Miyata 4th 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Su-gyung Park 6th Su-gyung Park 8th 7th
Yokohama Bay Stars Katsunan Kondo 7th Kazushige Kichida 5th 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Dong-hee Im 8th Dong-hee Im 10th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Sukenobu Sato 9th Sukenobu Sato 7th 8th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Toshikazu Yokoyama 10th Toshikazu Yokoyama 9th 10th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Isoruko Nan 11th Isoruko Nan 12th 12th
Yomiuri Giants Tsuneyo Ichikawa 12th Tsuneyo Ichikawa 11th 11th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Pin-zhen Au 1st Pin-zhen Au 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Shohei Nakayama 2nd Shohei Nakayama 4th 3rd
Saitama Seibu Lions Yoshihide Sugano 3rd Yoshihide Sugano 2nd 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Chong-yee Wang 4th Chong-yee Wang 5th 5th
Chunichi Dragons Takeshi Takeda 5th Takeshi Takeda 7th 7th
ORIX Buffaloes Zi-xing Sun 6th Zi-xing Sun 6th 6th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Zhao-ying Tsai 7th Motoyuki Shimada 8th 8th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Chan-koo Cho 8th Yasunari Suitani 3rd 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Gui Li 9th Gui Li 12th 12th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Toshiro Miyakawa 10th Toshiro Miyakawa 11th 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Young-hoon Kim 11th Young-hoon Kim 9th 9th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Takanibu Otani 12th Takanibu Otani 10th 10th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Pin-zhen Au 1st Pin-zhen Au 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Shojiro Inoue 2nd Shojiro Inoue 2nd 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Mei-shan Huang 3rd Mei-shan Huang 5th 3rd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Jae-bok Han 4th Jae-bok Han 4th 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Younis Jahangiri 5th Younis Jahangiri 3rd 4th
Yomiuri Giants Gauraprabha Chandrasekar 6th Gauraprabha Chandrasekar 7th 6th
Chunichi Dragons Kenko Ikeuchi 7th Kenko Ikeuchi 8th 7th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Susumu Kato 8th Susumu Kato 11th 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Hoshi Watanabe 9th Hoshi Watanabe 9th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Yasutoki Kojima 10th Yasutoki Kojima 10th 11th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Chan-koo Cho 11th Yasunari Suitani 6th 8th
Yokohama Bay Stars Wei-guo Kuang 12th Wei-guo Kuang 12th 12th
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