NIPPON PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
11/21/2022
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Saitama Seibu Lions Tomoya Mori 1st Logan Boyer 11th(tied) 8th
Yomiuri Giants Elys Escobar 2nd Sachi Kobayashi 10th 2nd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Koji Yamakawa 3rd Welbin Bautista 6th 1st
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Akihisa Nishida 4th Drew Blakely 3rd 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Yushi Shimizu 5th Logan Gillaspie 2nd 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yuhei Nakamura 6th Kuemon Morimoto 1st 4th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Takero Okajima 7th Cordell Dunn 4th 6th
Chunichi Dragons Kenya Wakatsuki 8th Jim Sherman 11th(tied) 12th
Hanshin Tigers Takumi Oshima 9th Ismerling Mota 7th 7th
Orix Buffaloes Masatake Asano 10th Kerby Camacho 9th 9th
Chiba Lotte Marines Masataka Sato 11th Meibrys Viloria 8th 10th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Kosuke Nakamura 12th Rafelin Lorenzo 5th 11th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Saitama Seibu Lions Ryan Rua 1st 8th(tied) 7th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Austin Russ 2nd Devin Davis 3rd(tied) 1st
Orix Buffaloes Prince Fielder 3rd 8th(tied) 8th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Tadao Kouno 4th Jose Colina 6th(tied) 5th
Yomiuri Giants Hayato Sakamoto 5th Santiago Rincon 1st 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Hiroshi Yamanaka 6th Luis Encarnacion 2nd 3rd
Chiba Lotte Marines Hirotada Maeda 7th 8th(tied) 10th
Chunichi Dragons Koji Kawai 8th 8th(tied) 11th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yoshitaka Saito 9th Jorge Rodríguez 5th 4th
Hanshin Tigers Daisuke Kiyomizu 10th 8th(tied) 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Rikiya Tanaka 11th António Gómez 6th(tied) 9th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars 12th Hunter Stovall 3rd(tied) 6th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Shogo Nakamura 1st Pascual Fiorello 8th 7th
Hanshin Tigers Jose Altuve 2nd Ietsuna Asai 6th 1st
Chunichi Dragons Takayuki Kajitani 3rd Shunen Hashimoto 11th 10th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Haruki Nishikawa 4th Juan Rodríguez 7th 8th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Naomichi Nishiura 5th Jefry Souffront 2nd(tied) 2nd
Orix Buffaloes Yuto Takahama 6th Ripken Reyes 9th(tied) 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Shigemasa Hoshino 7th Jhon Meison Herrera 2nd(tied) 3rd
Yomiuri Giants Nobuyori Higuchi 8th Wadye Ynfante 1st 4th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Katsumoto Sugahara 9th J.D. Salmon-Williams 2nd(tied) 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Nobuhiko Ohayashi 10th Matt Morales 2nd(tied) 6th
Saitama Seibu Lions 11th (tied) AJ Lee 9th(tied) 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 11th (tied) 12th 12th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Lourdes Gourriel Jr. 1st Omar Meregildo 2nd(tied) 1st
Hanshin Tigers Evan Longoria 2nd Matthew Schmidt 7th 2nd
Saitama Seibu Lions Mitch Nay 3rd 11th(tied) 10th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kazuya Katsuki 4th Garrett Milchin 9th(tied) 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks J.T. Mauldin 5th Shane Martinez 2nd(tied) 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kyle Kubitza 6th Sergio Macias 9th(tied) 9th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Ginji Akaminai 7th Kevin Mathis 2nd(tied) 5th
Yomiuri Giants Yoshitomo Tsutsugo 8th Cade Pollard 2nd(tied) 6th
Orix Buffaloes Hotaka Yamakawa 9th Ryan Karstetter 8th 8th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yuma Mune 10th L.J. Talley 1st 4th
Chiba Lotte Marines Yodo Ando 11th 11th(tied) 12th
Chunichi Dragons 12th Steven Oakley 6th 11th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chunichi Dragons Austin Bodrato 1st Royce Lewis 2nd 1st
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Kyle Holder 2nd Nick Madrigal 4th(tied) 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Shuhei Takahashi 3rd Kosaku Fujita 4th(tied) 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kenta Imamiya 4th Aaron Schunk 10th(tied) 9th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yoshimasa Matsuo 5th Tsuruki Suzuki 10th(tied) 11th
Hanshin Tigers Yo Go 6th Sahid Valenzuela 9th 8th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Yujiro Sasaki 7th Greifer Andrade 10th(tied) 12th
Saitama Seibu Lions Sojuro Nishimura 8th Yonny Hernandez 1st 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Hiroyuki Shirasaki 9th Tabito Matsui 4th(tied) 5th
Chiba Lotte Marines Natsuo Kimura 10th Yeremi Rosario 3rd 6th
Orix Buffaloes Tadamasa Toyota 11th Ralphy Almarza 4th(tied) 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Naomichi Nakayama 12th Jeff Cox 4th(tied) 10th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles D.J. Wilson 1st Dany Rojas 8th 5th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Tomo Otosaka 2nd Yoshimasa Tanaka 1st(tied) 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Dan Paolini 3rd Bakari Gayle 6th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Hiroaki Shimauchi 4th 9th(tied) 8th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yoshiyuki Takahashi 5th Bryan De La Cruz 4th 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Seiya Suzuki 6th 9th(tied) 9th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Sozen Yamaguchi 7th 9th(tied) 10th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Taiki Sekine 8th Jose Jules 1st(tied) 3rd
Orix Buffaloes Kiyonaga Matsuura 9th John Cresto 1st(tied) 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Hisamitsu Kamuta 10th 9th(tied) 11th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shosuke Watanabe 11th José Pérez 7th 7th
Chunichi Dragons 12th D.J. Artis 5th 12th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Danny Blair 1st Terence Hill 6th 1st
Tokyo Yakult Swallows D.J. Miller 2nd Carlos Machado 1st 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Melvin Marcelino 3rd José Morales 7th(tied) 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Jean Carlos Arias 4th Kansuke Oka 5th 3rd
Yomiuri Giants Daiki Asama 5th Joe Lancellotti 7th(tied) 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yoshihiro Maru 6th Bob Davis 2nd 4th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Roku Hayakawa 7th Ánibal Gonzáles 10th(tied) 9th
Saitama Seibu Lions Naoto Wakimoto 8th Randy Ventura 3rd 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Tetsui Yamaguchi 9th Zachary Daniels 10th(tied) 10th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Masaharu Ine 10th 12th 12th
Orix Buffaloes Jiro Takeuchi 11th Jose Patino 4th 8th
Hanshin Tigers 12th Ton Koyama 7th(tied) 11th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Tristan Pompey 1st Nobuyori Okada 7th(tied) 4th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Alexquemer Sanchez 2nd Matt Hardy 2nd 1st
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Yuya Taniguchi 3rd Tulio Garcia 7th(tied) 6th
Orix Buffaloes Ryosuke Hirata 4th Kevin Strohschein 6th 5th
Chunichi Dragons Tsurayuki Ohayashi 5th Jacob Parrott 1st 2nd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Taiga Egoshi 6th Leobaldo Cabrera 7th(tied) 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Shunta Goto 7th 11th(tied) 11th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Ikki Daisen 8th Yoel Andujar 4th(tied) 3rd
Hanshin Tigers Kunimichi Murakami 9th Jeremias Portorreal 7th(tied) 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines 10th (tied) Matt Lautz 4th(tied) 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions 10th (tied) Nestor Muriel 3rd 9th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows 10th (tied) 11th(tied) 12th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Franklin E. Perez 1st Tadanobu Nakagawa 9th(tied) 5th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kenta Maeda 2nd Wander Cabrera 3rd 1st
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Jesus Zambrano 3rd Jarrett Montgomery 11th 10th
Orix Buffaloes Nelson Hernandez 4th Victor Concepcion 4th 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Rodrigo Takahashi 5th Evan Sperling 6th 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Javier Medina 6th Masahiro Nagata 12th 11th
Saitama Seibu Lions Daniel Sprinkle 7th Keegan James 9th(tied) 9th
Chunichi Dragons Nick A. Lee 8th Kenshin Hayagawa 5th 4th
Yomiuri Giants Daichi Osera 9th Nick Lodolo 8th 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Shinsaku Kichida 10th Diony Rodriguez 2nd 8th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Dustin Driver 11th Matt McGarry 1st 6th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Ren Kazahari 12th Solomon Bates 7th 12th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Henderson Alvarez 1st John Dearth 11th(tied) 4th
Orix Buffaloes Yuki Kuniyoshi 2nd Yoritomo Fujishima 10th 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Hiroya Kawamitsu 3rd Naruhiko Ohayashi 2nd(tied) 1st
Saitama Seibu Lions Sho Arima 4th Masahide Kobayashi 2nd(tied) 2nd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Daisuke Sobue 5th Yukinaga Hara 6th(tied) 6th
Chunichi Dragons Tatsuya Oba 6th Isoruko Watanabe 9th 7th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shozo Hirano 7th Kazutoshi Okabe 1st 3rd
Yomiuri Giants Hayato Takagi 8th Daisuke Saito 5th 9th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Hidekazu Kawano 9th Atsumori Terada 11th(tied) 12th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Jin Takahashi 10th Jin Takahashi 8th 10th
Hanshin Tigers Toshiki Kimura 11th Toshiki Kimura 4th 8th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Shihei Ueno 12th Hirotsugu Sato 6th(tied) 11th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Henderson Alvarez 1st Joel Allen 2nd 1st
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kodai Senga 2nd Sachi Yamamoto 4th 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Yoshiki Yano 3rd Nobuhiko Yamamoto 8th(tied) 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Ren Nakata 4th Tokugawa Yamasaki 7th 4th
Orix Buffaloes Kyohei Maegawa 5th Victor Concepcion 1st 3rd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Daisuke Sobue 6th Bryant Jordan 6th 5th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Kensaku Yamaguchi 7th Mario Manuel 5th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Yeijiro Yamada 8th Toshimichi Tsuchiya 8th(tied) 9th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Kento Shibata 9th Naomi Tenno 8th(tied) 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Yusei Kikuchi 10th Connor Lunn 8th(tied) 11th
Chunichi Dragons Nobuatsu Saito 11th Javier Valentin-Rodriguez 8th(tied) 12th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shozo Hirano 12th Kazutoshi Okabe 3rd 7th
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