NIPPON BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
12/31/2025
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Ryoma Hirano 11th 11th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Motoki Ohayashi 3rd 3rd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Joo-hyun Ch'oe 10th 10th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Takayuki Aoki 12th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Noriyuki Miyamoto 1st 1st
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Koji Inoue 6th 6th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Katsumi Shini 4th 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Guo-xiu Ran 7th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Morihiro Yamasaki 2nd 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 1st Kiyonaga Kawaguchi 5th 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Nam-cheol Pak 8th 8th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Shinsaku Yamasaki 9th 9th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Cheol-chung Ch'oe 8th 8th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Kenzaburo Miura 1st 1st
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Shinichi Tanaka Tied for 1st Tetsunori Ito 5th 5th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Shichirobei Shimizu 9th 9th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Jiao-long Siew 11th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Hideki Matsumoto 12th 12th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Su-hyeon Pak 10th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Tomokazu Mori 6th 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Yasujiro Iitsuka 3rd 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kenshin Kawai Tied for 1st Feng-linag Tze 7th 7th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Matsudaira Sato 4th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Takanobu Kawamura 2nd 2nd
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Aki Miyakawa 6th 6th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Ryuichi Motsuzuki 3rd 3rd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Noboru Nishida 8th 8th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Yoritoki Nakashima 5th 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Hae-weon Han 4th 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Ichiro Oishi 2nd 2nd
ORIX Buffaloes Tadanobu Sawada Tied for 1st Tadanobu Sawada 1st 1st
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Teinosuke Imai 10th 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Tamotsu Sakai 11th 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 1st Yasuhiro Oshima 12th 12th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Shun'ichi Nakashima 9th 9th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Satoru Yamashita 7th 7th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Ki-moon Pak 1st 1st
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Kanzaburo Inoue 12th 12th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Momoru Ito 2nd 2nd
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Jun Si 10th 10th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Narihari Matsuura 8th 8th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Yang Xing 9th 9th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Gen Kimura 3rd 3rd
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Qing-lai Thien 4th 4th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Fu-po Tseng 11th 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 1st Tomiji Kohara 7th 7th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Yok-sing Mah 5th 5th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Motoki Hayakawa 6th 6th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yokohama Bay Stars Naonobu Honda 1st Jing-yu Ju 5th 5th
Chiba Lotte Marines Tadahisa Nakada Tied for 2nd Yo Luo 2nd 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 2nd Tsugiharu Fukuda 7th 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 2nd Xue-liang Jian 11th 11th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 2nd Shojiro Watanabe 1st 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yoshi Takaki Tied for 2nd Junji Kichida 8th 8th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Taisho Chikafuji Tied for 2nd Nobuhiko Kumagai 3rd 3rd
ORIX Buffaloes Ryutaro Murakami Tied for 2nd Ryutaro Murakami 9th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 2nd Jin-man Kangjon 12th 12th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Xiong Liu Tied for 2nd Katsumoto Mori 4th 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 2nd Yoshihito Higuchi 6th 6th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 2nd Kinji Ando 10th 10th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Kyoichi Ohayashi 9th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Masayuki Maruyama 12th 12th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Takahashi Takahashi 5th 5th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Masayoshi Hayagawa 1st 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kosho Fujita Tied for 1st Kosho Fujita 3rd 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Seung-jun Pi 10th 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Hsueh-liang Nan 8th 8th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Toyonobu Ojima 2nd 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Teruo Suzuki 6th 6th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 1st Sakutaro Okada 4th 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Kuemon Samurakami 7th 7th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Jin-woo Wu 11th 11th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Seinosuke Kamida 4th 4th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Mitsunari Yamamoto 1st 1st
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Kosami Ishii 8th 8th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Kiyoshi Ito 12th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Eiichi Kobayashi 6th 6th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Satoshi Suzuki 5th 5th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Tokimune Sekiguchi 10th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Putra Kathirithamby 2nd 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Aki Daijo 3rd 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 1st Tong-sik An 11th 11th
Yokohama Bay Stars Pao-tzu Mei Tied for 1st Pao-tzu Mei 9th 9th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Shino Kikuchi 7th 7th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Mitsuharu Kishita 6th 6th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 1st Mamoru Nishikawa 10th 10th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Lian-wei Khu 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Yodo Nomura 8th 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Seung-hwan Park 12th 12th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tsuginori Sasaki Tied for 1st Tsuginori Sasaki 3rd 3rd
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Masatake Kawashima 7th 7th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tied for 1st Hyo-chin Ch'oe 9th 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Tamotsu Yamashita 2nd 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tied for 1st Fa-hsien Fang 11th 11th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Ienobu Kimura 4th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Yasujiro Okawa Tied for 1st Kunihiko Ito 5th 5th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Darbha Krishnamma 1st Kagetoki Ohayashi 4th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Dae-ki Kim 2nd Sawao Daikawa 5th 5th
Chiba Lotte Marines Zhen-ying Tze 3rd Tokutomi Nishida 1st 1st
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Ienobu Nishimura 4th Hyeon-san Yi 11th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Terao Hayagawa 5th Shunsen Matsumoto 6th 6th
Chunichi Dragons Shunso Sato 6th Goro Ota 8th 8th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Junnosuke Nakamura 7th Mitsukuni Kudo 3rd 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Shao-zu Da 8th Harumi Nakashima 12th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 9th Hirotada Nan 2nd 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 9th Jit wei Duan 9th 9th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 9th Masamichi Takahashi 10th 11th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 9th Yasuyuki Tezuka 7th 7th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Naomi Yoshida 1st 1st
Chunichi Dragons Richello Paloma Tied for 1st Seiji Hoshino 7th 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Mito Kokura 8th 8th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Hiroji Fukushima 11th 11th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Tekkan Murata 10th 10th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Mabuchi Ine 12th 12th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Tabito Maekawa 5th 5th
Saitama Seibu Lions Katai Suto Tied for 1st Katai Suto 2nd 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Takuya Masuda 4th 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Junnosuke Nakamura Tied for 1st Taisuke Iwasaki 6th 6th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Takuro Osada 3rd 3rd
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Koyo Kurohiko 9th 9th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Tied for 1st Kozue Kubo 7th 7th
Chunichi Dragons Richello Paloma Tied for 1st Shoin Ikarashi 3rd 3rd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tied for 1st Yuan Ts'ai 6th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 1st Matsuta Nakagawa 12th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 1st Yu-xing Law 1st 1st
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tied for 1st Jan Muhammad Khattak 8th 8th
ORIX Buffaloes Tied for 1st Hiroharu Kodama 10th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Katai Suto Tied for 1st Katai Suto 2nd 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Tied for 1st Kawanari Uchida 5th 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Junnosuke Nakamura Tied for 1st Noriaki Memoto 9th 9th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 1st Gah-fat Xi 4th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Tied for 1st Yun-soo Pae 11th 11th
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