NIPPON BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
12/31/2034
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Koji Tanaka 1st (tied) Koji Tanaka 2nd 1st
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tooru Miyahira 1st (tied) Tooru Miyahira 10th 2nd
Chiba Lotte Marines Jae-hoon Moon 3rd Jae-hoon Moon 12th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Yasushi Hagiwara 4th Yasushi Hagiwara 6th(tied) 3rd
Chunichi Dragons Kazuhiko Kai 5th Kazuhiko Kai 6th(tied) 5th
Hanshin Tigers Kumeo Shiba 6th Kumeo Shiba 4th 6th
Yokohama Bay Stars Seizaburo Tanaka 7th Seizaburo Tanaka 5th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Ryohei Yukimoto 8th Yasusaburo Okumura 11th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Mitsuo Yamashita 9th Myoung-chul Yoo 1st 8th
ORIX Buffaloes Takahide Hirano 10th Jarrod Weathersby 8th 10th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Tetsukazu Kurihara 11th Jong-yong Choi 9th 11th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Frank Turner 12th Jonathan Pharms 3rd 12th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chunichi Dragons Kol-in-sen Koo 1st Kol-in-sen Koo 1st 1st
ORIX Buffaloes Keita Sato 2nd Keita Sato 11th 2nd
Hanshin Tigers Naoto Kajiwara 3rd Naoto Kajiwara 12th 4th
Yokohama Bay Stars Gouki Maeda 4th Gouki Maeda 8th 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Ikumasa Shintani 5th Ikumasa Shintani 3rd 5th
Saitama Seibu Lions Yuudai Fujimori 6th Yuudai Fujimori 5th 6th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shinnosuke Arakaki 7th Shinnosuke Arakaki 2nd 7th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Ryuji Hayashida 8th Ryuji Hayashida 10th 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Chotaro Nakanishi 9th Chotaro Nakanishi 6th 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines Takato Ono 10th Jeff Watts 7th 10th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Hidemichi Wada 11th Shigenori Kawata 9th 11th
Yomiuri Giants Mitsuya Inouye 12th Masutaro Inouye 4th 12th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chunichi Dragons Min-u Kym 1st Min-u Kym 10th 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Cheong-u Pak 2nd Cheong-u Pak 8th 2nd
Yokohama Bay Stars Jim Greenstein 3rd Jim Greenstein 11th 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Seiju Takahashi 4th Seiju Takahashi 7th 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Brian Schaefer 5th Brian Schaefer 2nd 4th
Hanshin Tigers Lu-shan Teoh 6th Lu-shan Teoh 9th 6th
Yomiuri Giants Hiroyoshi Kato 7th Hiroyoshi Kato 12th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Hisornori Tanaka 8th Hisornori Tanaka 5th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Mototada Turnell 9th Mototada Turnell 3rd 8th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Shinzo Nishimura 10th Phil Ruschel 6th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kyung-won Chung 11th Kyung-won Chung 1st 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Huang Bu 12th Chan-u Shon 4th 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chunichi Dragons Toshimitsu Epps 1st Toshimitsu Epps 12th 12th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Zhong-shu Chuang 2nd Zhong-shu Chuang 8th 1st
Hanshin Tigers Yutaka Kato 3rd Yutaka Kato 10th(tied) 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Pete Farthing 4th Shiro Sasamoto 6th(tied) 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Ki-heung Pak 5th Ki-heung Pak 2nd 4th
ORIX Buffaloes Heita Tokunaga 6th Heita Tokunaga 4th 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Yoshino Takata 7th Yugo Kuwabara 6th(tied) 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Sang-your Choe 8th Sang-your Choe 5th 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines Wen-bin Nishi 9th Wen-bin Nishi 3rd 7th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Teruo Ono 10th Teruo Ono 1st 9th
Yomiuri Giants Justin Chiasson 11th Justin Chiasson 9th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Heiichi Matsuo 12th Heiichi Matsuo 10th(tied) 11th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kaiji Nagata 1st Kaiji Nagata 12th 12th
Yomiuri Giants Akira Kaneko 2nd Akira Kaneko 6th 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Junki Scott 3rd Junki Scott 11th 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yuichiro Suzuki 4th Yuichiro Suzuki 4th 3rd
ORIX Buffaloes Wei-Tzu Ito 5th Dong-hwan Kwon 9th 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Seijii Mikami 6th Seijii Mikami 3rd 5th
Yokohama Bay Stars Kyung-un Kwag 7th Kyung-un Kwag 7th(tied) 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Marc Collins 8th Yozaburo Oba 10th 8th
Hanshin Tigers Tadaharu Sato 9th Tadaharu Sato 1st 7th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kunimitsu Kawamura 10th Kunimitsu Kawamura 2nd 9th
Chunichi Dragons Shinya Ono 11th Shinya Ono 5th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Yugo Muramoto 12th Yugo Muramoto 7th(tied) 11th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Senta Nakano 1st Senta Nakano 5th(tied) 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Hiromi Nagao 2nd Hiromi Nagao 4th 1st
Chunichi Dragons Tetsuya Toyoda 3rd Tetsuya Toyoda 5th(tied) 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Wang Che 4th Wang Che 9th 5th
Hanshin Tigers Steve Durrett 5th Steve Durrett 1st 4th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Goushi Knish 6th Goushi Knish 10th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Hisanobu Mukai 7th Hisanobu Mukai 8th 6th
ORIX Buffaloes Kenzaburo Yoneda 8th Hyung-gook Ann 11th(tied) 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Jason Gates 9th Ryan Engle 11th(tied) 11th
Chiba Lotte Marines Toji Wakayama 10th Takehisa Quillen 3rd 9th
Yokohama Bay Stars Mitsujiro Nakagawa 11th Harukazu Ogawa 2nd 8th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tomotaka Sudo 12th Danny Garcia 7th 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
ORIX Buffaloes Fu-chi Ming 1st Fu-chi Ming 4th 1st
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles James Briggs 2nd James Briggs 7th 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Jihei Suyama 3rd Jihei Suyama 6th 2nd
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kiyoshi Yano 4th Kiyoshi Yano 8th 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Yoshitomo Noda 5th Yoshitomo Noda 5th 5th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shi-ping Xú 6th Shi-ping Xú 11th(tied) 11th
Hanshin Tigers Johnny Papa 7th Yeon-kyu Cho 1st 6th
Chunichi Dragons Hayaki Shinozaki 8th Hayaki Shinozaki 10th 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Akiharu Kochi 9th Akiharu Kochi 11th(tied) 12th
Yokohama Bay Stars Issei Maruyama 10th Issei Maruyama 3rd 7th
Yomiuri Giants Sang-ton Kym 11th Sang-ton Kym 2nd 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines Eien Hara 12th Rikuo Morita 9th 10th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Gui-fan Yen 1st Gui-fan Yen 9th(tied) 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Dustin Adkinson 2nd Dustin Adkinson 5th 1st
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Takahiro Kato 3rd Takahiro Kato 6th 4th
Hanshin Tigers Kiyonori Ogura 4th Kiyonori Ogura 9th(tied) 6th
Saitama Seibu Lions Kuniaki Tanaka 5th Kuniaki Tanaka 2nd 3rd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Kiyotaka Sugimoto 6th Kiyotaka Sugimoto 4th 5th
ORIX Buffaloes Hyo-chin Suk 7th Hyo-chin Suk 7th 7th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Jerry Lemons 8th Jerry Lemons 1st 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yozo Kato 9th Yozo Kato 8th 10th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Feng-yi Man 10th Feng-yi Man 3rd 9th
Yokohama Bay Stars Kenji Morioka 11th Kenji Morioka 9th(tied) 11th
Chiba Lotte Marines Andrew Clark 12th Andrew Clark 12th 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Mike Hollis 1st Ryuzo Ishiguro 9th 1st
Chunichi Dragons Torikatzu Nishiyama 2nd Yuji Murai 11th 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Katsumi Nakata 3rd Katsumi Nakata 12th 5th
Yomiuri Giants Gavin Taylor 4th Gavin Taylor 6th 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Chang-se Kim 5th Pete Willoughby 10th 7th
Saitama Seibu Lions Ryan Desmond 6th Andy Ludewig 7th 6th
Yokohama Bay Stars Yoshiyuki Matsuda 7th Yoshiyuki Matsuda 5th 4th
ORIX Buffaloes Sung-your Park 8th Hachemon Hitomi 8th 10th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Ming Lai 9th Ming Lai 1st 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines Yoon-tae Pack 10th Andy Bowersox 3rd 9th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Dae Che 11th Hidenori Tomita 2nd 11th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Sang-joon Sohn 12th Sang-joon Sohn 4th 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Hyun-sik Park 1st Hyun-sik Park 4th(tied) 3rd
Yomiuri Giants Tekkan Ishihara 2nd Tekkan Ishihara 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Taichiro Ishida 3rd Tse-peng Li 2nd(tied) 2nd
ORIX Buffaloes Mike Blythe 4th Mike Blythe 7th(tied) 6th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Takamitsu Soma 5th Takamitsu Soma 9th 7th
Chunichi Dragons Tom Woodral 6th Tom Woodral 7th(tied) 9th
Chiba Lotte Marines Norihisa Hayasaka 7th Norihisa Hayasaka 2nd(tied) 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Eishi Hirayama 8th Eishi Hirayama 11th(tied) 11th
Yokohama Bay Stars Hao-hing Han 9th Robby Krohn 6th 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Muhsin Zardari 10th J.P. Ripp 10th 10th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Katsutaka Soma 11th Katsutaka Soma 4th(tied) 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Ben Harding 12th Yakamochi Noda 11th(tied) 12th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Matt Stevenson 1st Matt Stevenson 7th(tied) 7th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Wei-sng Mak 2nd Wei-sng Mak 7th(tied) 8th
Chunichi Dragons Josh Jackson 3rd Josh Jackson 7th(tied) 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Chotaro Matsuno 4th Chotaro Matsuno 7th(tied) 10th
ORIX Buffaloes Kouichi Hayashi 5th Kouichi Hayashi 7th(tied) 11th
Yomiuri Giants Tadasumi Murakami 6th Tadasumi Murakami 1st 1st
Yokohama Bay Stars Nobu Arita 7th Nobu Arita 2nd 2nd
Saitama Seibu Lions Mikiya Kubo 8th Mikiya Kubo 3rd 3rd
Hanshin Tigers Tsuyashi Hiramoto 9th Keiichi Aoki 5th 4th
Chiba Lotte Marines Kazuteru Kano 10th Kazuteru Kano 7th(tied) 12th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Katsuo Ishibashi 11th Katsuo Ishibashi 6th 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Itaru Uto 12th Mathieu Cantone 4th 5th
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