NIPPON PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL LEAGUE
POSITIONAL STRENGTH OVERVIEW BY POSITIONS
09/26/2019
 
CATCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Saitama Seibu Lions Tomoya Mori 1st Chris Betts 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Ryutaro Umeno 2nd Fumihito Haraguchi 11th 11th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Ayatsugu Yamashita 3rd Tamon Horiuchi 10th 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Lorenzo Quintana 4th Zack Collins 4th 3rd
Orix Buffaloes Torai Fushimi 5th D.J. Wilson 6th 5th
Chunichi Dragons Makoto Ine 6th Monty Burnett 8th 7th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Yuhei Nakamura 7th Brandon Martorano 2nd 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Seiji Kobayashi 8th Shosuke Sanu 9th 10th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Tsubasa Aizawa 9th Sam Harris 7th 8th
Chiba Lotte Marines Tagashashi Ueno 10th Daniel Seres 5th 6th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Josh Gill 11th Hiroki Minei 3rd 4th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Motohiro Shima 12th Ben Norris 12th 12th
FIRST BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yomiuri Giants Shinnosuke Abe 1st 12th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Jesus Guzman 2nd Hayao Miyazaki 7th 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Akira Nakamura 3rd Akira Saga 5th 5th
Hanshin Tigers Drew Ward 4th Lazaro Alonso 2nd 1st
Chiba Lotte Marines Luis Arrojo 5th Joji Nakai 6th 7th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Shintaro Masuda 6th Josh Riley 3rd 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kazuhiro Hatakeyama 7th Derek Edwards 4th 4th
Saitama Seibu Lions Hotaka Yamakawa 8th Dan Wilder 10th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Masahiko Morino 9th Ken Mann 1st 2nd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Ryota Ito 10th Tommy Stokes 8th 8th
Orix Buffaloes Yuma Mune 11th Shinta Hifumi 11th 11th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Takuma Sadaoka 12th Kazayuki Muto 9th 10th
SECOND BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Takayuki Kajitani 1st Koki Yamashita 4th 3rd
Saitama Seibu Lions Max Schrock 2nd Takuma Hasegawa 8th Tied for 6th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Ryosuke Kikuchi 3rd Jim Schmitt 1st 1st
Chunichi Dragons Hector Luna 4th Tied for 11th 11th
Yomiuri Giants Daisuke Nakai 5th Johnny Nash 3rd 4th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Haruki Nishikawa 6th Ken Johnson 2nd 2nd
Orix Buffaloes Masahiro Nishino 7th Tied for 11th 12th
Hanshin Tigers Hiroki Uemoto 8th Jim Murdoch 6th Tied for 6th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yuichi Honda 9th Héctor Ramírez 7th 8th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Takehiro Ishikawa 10th Akira Kouyama 10th 10th
Chiba Lotte Marines Yasuyuki Kataoka 11th Ryo Miki 9th 9th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Takayuki Terauchi 12th Takumi Miyoshi 5th 5th
THIRD BASEMEN
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hanshin Tigers Kyle Seager 1st Tokuma Kiyomizu 6th 4th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Nobuhiro Matsuda 2nd Luis Romero 2nd 1st
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kosuke Tanaka 3rd Yuki Mima 5th 5th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Pablo Sandoval 4th Hyuma Matsui 9th 8th
Saitama Seibu Lions Takeya Nakamura 5th Edelberto Berrucha 3rd 3rd
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Kody Clemens 6th Tied for 11th 11th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Ginji Akaminai 7th Yasuhito Uchida 1st 2nd
Chunichi Dragons Tu-Hsuan Lee 8th Tied for 11th 12th
Yomiuri Giants Ryota Arai 9th Harutomo Tsuji 10th 10th
Orix Buffaloes Hiroyuki Nakajima 10th Kyo Okunami 4th 6th
Chiba Lotte Marines Pedro Alvarez 11th Kazuya Katsuki 8th 9th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Masaki Sakaguchi 12th Yoriyoshi Imagawa 7th 7th
SHORTSTOPS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Saitama Seibu Lions Hideto Asamura 1st Kazuki Kaneko 5th 2nd
Chiba Lotte Marines Daichi Suzuki 2nd Misao Tanaka 4th 3rd
Chunichi Dragons Shuhei Takahashi 3rd Hayato Mizowaki 7th 7th
Hanshin Tigers Takashi Toritani Tied for 4th Fumiya Hojo 3rd 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Shingo Kawabata Tied for 4th Nobuyuki Okmura 10th 9th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kenta Imamiya 6th Masato Ishida 6th 6th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Toshihiko Kuramoto 7th Lourdes Gourriel Jr. 1st 1st
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Christian Colon 8th Kai Ueda 8th 8th
Yomiuri Giants Zelous Wheeler 9th Takuro Narita 12th 12th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Seiya Suzuki 10th Satoshi Kimura 9th 10th
Orix Buffaloes Ryoichi Adachi 11th Ken'ichi Uchida 11th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Chas Hadden 12th Chas Hadden 2nd 5th
LEFT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Yoshihiro Maru 1st Kazuhiro Koyama 8th 7th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Sho Nakata 2nd Aoi Enomoto 5th Tied for 3rd
Chiba Lotte Marines Katsuya Kakunaka 3rd Edwin Wilkinson 7th 6th
Saitama Seibu Lions Eitoku Iwasaki 4th Daisuke Togawa 4th 5th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Seiichi Uchikawa 5th Jeremy Young 2nd 2nd
Hanshin Tigers Hiroaki Shimauchi 6th 12th 12th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Masayuki Kuwahara 7th Masayuki Sato 10th 10th
Yomiuri Giants Hayata Ito 8th Johnny Baker 1st 1st
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Yuya Taniguchi 9th Izumi Hara 3rd Tied for 3rd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Taketoshi Goto 10th Naoto Nishida 9th 9th
Chunichi Dragons Tsurayuki Tanabe 11th Yuto Ito 6th 8th
Orix Buffaloes Yuki Miyazaki 12th Keisuke Tada 11th 11th
CENTER FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Rainel Rosario 1st Jesús Ortíz 2nd 1st
Saitama Seibu Lions Shogo Akiyama 2nd Shigochiyo Ota 9th 7th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yuki Yanagita 3rd Chris Elliott 6th 6th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tsuyoshi Ueda 4th Danny Everard 8th 8th
Orix Buffaloes Shunta Goto 5th Katsuhiko Onishi 5th 4th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Tomo Otosaka 6th Tied for 10th 10th
Hanshin Tigers Ryosuke Ogata 7th Jim Cutright 3rd 3rd
Chiba Lotte Marines Takashi Ogino 8th Geoff Gibson 4th 5th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Takumaru Yaoita 9th Tied for 10th 11th
Chunichi Dragons Yohei Oshima 10th Tied for 10th 12th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Kenshi Sugiya 11th Eric Edwards 1st 2nd
Yomiuri Giants Ryo Hijirisawa 12th Juan Carlos Villanueva 7th 9th
RIGHT FIELDERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Orix Buffaloes Alex Gordon 1st Jerry Reakes 8th 6th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Wladimir Balentien 2nd Charlie Boyd 2nd 1st
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Yuya Hasegawa 3rd Go Kamamoto 5th 5th
Saitama Seibu Lions Fumikazu Kimura 4th Dave Cameron 4th 4th
Chunichi Dragons Ryosuke Hirata 5th Shinji Furusato 7th 8th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Shota Dobayashi 6th Tied for 11th 11th
Yomiuri Giants Taishi Ota 7th Tied for 11th 12th
Chiba Lotte Marines Shota Ishimine 8th Jody Castillo 6th 7th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Masafumi Tanaka 9th Sam St. John 3rd 3rd
Hanshin Tigers Shintaro Yokota 10th Ricky Fox 1st 2nd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yasushi Iihara 11th Suezo Ageda 9th 9th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Sho Aranami 12th Kenzo Nakada 10th 10th
STARTING PITCHERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Arinori Ueda 1st Yadier Alvarez 8th 6th
Yomiuri Giants Tomoyuki Sugano 2nd Jorge Fernández 5th 3rd
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Takahiro Norimoto 3rd Yaichiro Shimada 3rd 2nd
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Shohei Otani 4th Kazuki Noda 1st 1st
Saitama Seibu Lions Ogai Kawaguchi 5th Oscar Meade 6th 7th
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Kenta Maeda 6th Mitsunari Kumatani 12th 12th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Arinori Hayagawa 7th Bob Swanson 4th 4th
Hanshin Tigers Shintaro Fujinami 8th Reginald Ford 10th 10th
Chiba Lotte Marines Phil Hughes 9th Foster Griffin 11th 11th
Orix Buffaloes Yuki Nishi 10th Yasuo Suzuki 7th 8th
Chunichi Dragons Toshiya Okada 11th Tim Tracy 9th 9th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Yuki Kuniyoshi 12th Yoriie Watanabe 2nd 5th
RELIEVERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Ryuji Ichioka 1st Kazuki Yabuta 9th 8th
Chunichi Dragons Koji Fukutani 2nd Chad Earl 1st 1st
Hanshin Tigers Kyosuke Takagi 3rd Toshimichi Watanabe 10th 10th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Shinya Kayama 4th Daichiro Ito 7th 5th
Yomiuri Giants Shoki Kasahara 5th Hirotada Tanaka 4th 3rd
Orix Buffaloes Motoki Higa 6th Yu Suzuki 8th 9th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Ryo Akiyoshi 7th Kazutomo Iguchi 3rd 2nd
Saitama Seibu Lions Tatsushi Masuda 8th Luis Heredia 6th 7th
Chiba Lotte Marines Yuji Nishino 9th Tadamichi Okada 11th 11th
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Hidekazu Kawano 10th Naoya Ishikawa 5th 4th
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Atori Ota 11th Syun Yamashita 12th 12th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Yusuke Nishimiya 12th Shuya Yamaoka 2nd 6th
CLOSERS
Team Top player Team ranking Top prospect Organizational ranking Overall ranking
Chiba Lotte Marines Naoya Masuda 1st Kota Futaki 7th 6th
Hanshin Tigers Seung-hwan Oh 2nd Toshimichi Watanabe 8th 8th
Chunichi Dragons Katsuki Matayoshi 3rd Chad Earl 3rd 3rd
Hiroshima Toyo Carp Takeru Imamura 4th Sozen Yoshida 12th 12th
Yomiuri Giants Kentaro Nishimura 5th Johnny Callahan 11th 11th
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks Kodai Senga 6th Bob Archer 9th 9th
Orix Buffaloes Tatsuya Sato 7th Koki Saito 5th 4th
Tokyo Yakult Swallows Tony Barnette 8th Charlie Coates 10th 10th
Saitama Seibu Lions Tomomi Takahashi 9th Yuta Nakazaki 4th 5th
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles Sul-shik Chong 10th Nate Lindsey 1st 1st
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters Akihiro Hakumura 11th Dan Terry 2nd 2nd
Yokohama DeNA BayStars Shinji Ohara 12th Jimmy Hampshire 6th 7th
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