Tag: Masato Morishita
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…
The Best Pitching Seasons Since 2020
Last time, we looked at the top ten hitting seasons of the 2020s in Nippon Professional Baseball. This time, we flip over to the pitchers. Batting can be analyzed pretty easily by viewing production through OPS+ or wRC+. Players can overperform or underperform their expected numbers due to batted ball luck, but things typically start…