Tag: Seiya Watanabe
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…
2024 NPB Draft Preview
These are my top 30 prospects in the class. Tier 1 players — Yumeto Kanemaru and Rui Muneyama — are the faces of the draft. Five years from now, 2024 will be remembered as the “Kanemaru and Muneyama Draft.” They are guaranteed to be heavily contested in the lottery. Everyone wants them. Tier Descriptions Tier…