Tag: Kazuma Okamoto
2025 NPB Fielding Bible Award Winners Announced
Yesterday, Sports Info Solutions officially announced its annual Fielding Bible Award winners for Nippon Professional Baseball. This was my third consecutive year on the panel of voters. This year, the other participants were Jason Coskrey, an excellent writer at The Japan Times, and Yuta Sekiguchi, better known online as Bouno05, the creator of Sabermetric modules such as…
2025 NPB Playoff Preview
The stage is set for the 2025 Nippon Professional Baseball Wild Card Series, officially known as the Climax Series First Stage, a best-of-three matchup with every game played at the higher seed’s home park. This year’s games will be held on Saturday, October 11, and Sunday, October 12, with a decisive Game 3, if necessary,…
The Best Hitting Seasons Since 2020
The early 2020s will be remembered as a very unusual time in Nippon Professional Baseball history. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 marked the fewest games played in a season since 1950 (though the 120-game schedule still doubled what Major League Baseball could muster). In 2021, NPB returned to a full 143-game schedule, but extra…