Tag: Munetaka Murakami
2025 All-NPB Team Selections
Graphics by @bacc_prop on X In honor of the best players in Nippon Professional Baseball for the 2025 regular season, these are my selections for the All-NPB First and Second Teams. NPB declares “Best Nine” awards separately for the Central and Pacific Leagues, but does not name an overall “All-NPB” team like Major League Baseball,…
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…