NIPPON BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
12/31/2028
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Rick Giammarino 1st Rick Giammarino 2nd 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Masahiro Tomita Tied for 2nd Tied for 5th 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Hiyutaro Ushijima Tied for 2nd Hua Dun 1st 1st
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Hai-dong Szema 4th Hai-dong Szema 4th 3rd
ORIX Buffaloes Fomio Onishi 5th Tied for 5th 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Moo-hyun Boone 6th Moo-hyun Boone 3rd 5th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Randy Rines 7th Tied for 5th 7th
Hanshin Tigers Hidefumi Kamikawa 8th Tied for 5th 8th
Yomiuri Giants Zhu Mar 9th Tied for 5th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Dennis Baughman 10th Tied for 5th 10th
Chiba Lotte Marines Dae-hyung Morris 11th Tied for 5th 11th
Chunichi Dragons Onpei Yamasaki 12th Tied for 5th 12th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Itsuka Arakaki 1st Itsuka Arakaki 1st 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Seung-mun Shinn 2nd Tied for 3rd 2nd
Saitama Seibu Lions Satoshi Iijima 3rd Tied for 3rd 3rd
Yokohama Bay Stars Akinami Yokoyama 4th Tied for 3rd 5th
Yomiuri Giants Junichi Takaki 5th Tied for 3rd 6th
ORIX Buffaloes Toshifumi Kaneko 6th Tied for 3rd 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Gerry McMahon 7th Tied for 3rd 8th
Chunichi Dragons Insung Yaung 8th Insung Yaung 2nd 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kiyohisa Hasegawa 9th Tied for 3rd 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Indrarajan Shirishkumar 10th Tied for 3rd 10th
Hanshin Tigers Garry Nutting 11th Tied for 3rd 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Alex Rios 12th Tied for 3rd 12th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Shoya Wada 1st Shoya Wada 2nd 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Susumu Kono 2nd Susumu Kono 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Jhong-shun Shang 3rd Tied for 3rd 3rd
Yokohama Bay Stars Dae-yun Ahn 4th Tied for 3rd 4th
Chiba Lotte Marines Yoshida Nakai 5th Tied for 3rd 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Chu-yong Che 6th Tied for 3rd 6th
Chunichi Dragons Shigem Murata Tied for 7th Tied for 3rd Tied for 7th
Saitama Seibu Lions Kenji Akao Tied for 7th Tied for 3rd Tied for 7th
Yomiuri Giants Hiromitsu Watanabe 9th Tied for 3rd 9th
ORIX Buffaloes Nobyuki Matsumoto 10th Tied for 3rd 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Ayumu Yoshizawa 11th Tied for 3rd 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 12th Tied for 3rd 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chunichi Dragons An-yi Bian 1st An-yi Bian 1st 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Noboru Kamada 2nd Noboru Kamada 2nd 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Li-xue Liu 3rd Tied for 3rd 3rd
Yokohama Bay Stars Nobuji Okamoto 4th Tied for 3rd 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Takehiko Makino 5th Tied for 3rd 5th
Chiba Lotte Marines Chan-ho Lim Tied for 6th Tied for 3rd Tied for 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Bud Boulay Tied for 6th Tied for 3rd Tied for 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Hwa-pyung Yi 8th Tied for 3rd 8th
Hanshin Tigers Duk-yeo Pack 9th Tied for 3rd 9th
ORIX Buffaloes Shinichi Kawamura 10th Tied for 3rd 10th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Man-su Chang 11th Tied for 3rd 11th
Saitama Seibu Lions 12th Tied for 3rd 12th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Joe Severns 1st Joe Severns 2nd 2nd
Hanshin Tigers Junzo Takenaka 2nd Junzo Takenaka 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Monzaemon Yamamoto 3rd Tied for 3rd 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Vern Carroll 4th Tied for 3rd 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kwang-sub Kim 5th Tied for 3rd 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Atsuhiro Matsuyama 6th Tied for 3rd 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Larry Franzen 7th Tied for 3rd 7th
Chunichi Dragons Guo-ning Siu 8th Tied for 3rd 8th
ORIX Buffaloes Kasilingam Jaisimha 9th Tied for 3rd 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Wang Chang 10th Tied for 3rd 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Ryoji Kobayashi 11th Tied for 3rd 11th
Yokohama Bay Stars 12th Tied for 3rd 12th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yokohama Bay Stars Kien Thean 1st Kien Thean Tied for 3rd 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Takashi Tsuruta 2nd Takashi Tsuruta 1st 1st
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Dinh-Hy Mai 3rd Tied for 3rd 3rd
Hanshin Tigers Shigem Allen 4th Shigem Allen 2nd 4th
Chiba Lotte Marines Hidetada Hayashi 5th Tied for 3rd 5th
ORIX Buffaloes Mutsuhito Weaks 6th Tied for 3rd 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Bill Hathaway 7th Tied for 3rd 7th
Chunichi Dragons Dan Long 8th Tied for 3rd 8th
Yomiuri Giants Katsuyuki Sasaki 9th Tied for 3rd 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Toru Morioka 10th Tied for 3rd 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Eisen Mori 11th Tied for 3rd 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Shigeki Sakata 12th Tied for 3rd 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Mark Clubb 1st Mark Clubb 1st 1st
Yomiuri Giants Katsutaka Sakata 2nd Tied for 3rd 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kuniyasu Sato 3rd Tied for 3rd 3rd
ORIX Buffaloes Tomokazu Nakata 4th Tied for 3rd 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Danny Adolf 5th Danny Adolf 2nd 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Ryo Kojima 6th Tied for 3rd 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Dave Kelly 7th Tied for 3rd 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Bernie Gramuglia Tied for 8th Tied for 3rd Tied for 8th
Chunichi Dragons Tied for 8th Tied for 3rd Tied for 8th
Hanshin Tigers Tied for 8th Tied for 3rd Tied for 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tied for 8th Tied for 3rd Tied for 8th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tied for 8th Tied for 3rd Tied for 8th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Yoshinori Fujioka 1st Tied for 1st 1st
ORIX Buffaloes Eigo Matsuo 2nd Tied for 1st 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Daiki Nakamura 3rd Tied for 1st 3rd
Saitama Seibu Lions Ryuugo Anzai 4th Tied for 1st 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Jang-jin Jung 5th Tied for 1st 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Noboru Ishihara 6th Tied for 1st 6th
Hanshin Tigers Karl Frederickson 7th Tied for 1st 7th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Takumi Tsumura 8th Tied for 1st 8th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Bruce Makara 9th Tied for 1st 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Sun-taek Nho 10th Tied for 1st 10th
Yomiuri Giants Buddy Coyne 11th Tied for 1st 11th
Chiba Lotte Marines 12th Tied for 1st 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yoshiaki Kojima 1st Yoshiaki Kojima 2nd 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Shumei Bailey 2nd Shumei Bailey 6th 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Hisataka Matsumura 3rd Hisataka Matsumura 1st 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Eddie Rosado 4th Eddie Rosado 5th 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Tadahisa Sato 5th Tied for 10th 7th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tadakatsu Murayama 6th Tied for 10th 8th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Jack Thompson 7th Jack Thompson 3rd 5th
Hanshin Tigers Daizo Hirai 8th Jerry Kennedy 4th 6th
ORIX Buffaloes Shuichi Imai 9th Jeff Kent 9th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Takuya Funaki 10th Takuya Funaki 8th 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yuko Kinoshita 11th Tied for 10th 11th
Chiba Lotte Marines Junji Terada 12th Junji Terada 7th 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Michio Handa 1st Tied for 1st 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Pang Yip 2nd Tied for 1st 2nd
ORIX Buffaloes Naotake Moriguchi 3rd Tied for 1st 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Takashi Hirata 4th Tied for 1st 4th
Chunichi Dragons Man-su Kym Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kazutomo Sakata Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Hanshin Tigers Kazutaka Okura Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Dan Barrow Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Saitama Seibu Lions Kaiji Nakagawa Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Derek D'India Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shokichi Kobayashi Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Man-su Yi Tied for 5th Tied for 1st Tied for 5th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Natsume Sasaki 1st Tied for 1st 1st
ORIX Buffaloes Gerry LaForest 2nd Tied for 1st 2nd
Hanshin Tigers Jerry English 3rd Tied for 1st 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Bunjiro Kodama 4th Tied for 1st 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Shouma Morita 5th Tied for 1st 5th
Chiba Lotte Marines Pang Yip 6th Tied for 1st 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Hao Yuen 7th Tied for 1st 7th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Mitsuo Yamaguchi 8th Tied for 1st 8th
Chunichi Dragons Man-su Kym Tied for 9th Tied for 1st Tied for 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Dan Barrow Tied for 9th Tied for 1st Tied for 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Yasunari Kubota Tied for 9th Tied for 1st Tied for 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles John Ayers Tied for 9th Tied for 1st Tied for 9th
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