NPB Baseball
Nippon Professional Baseball
Japan's NPB: every qualified batter and pitcher from the official 2026 tables, ranked.
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Ages are shown only where a player's date of birth is verified (via their profile source); a dash means no verified date of birth yet.
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Every team with ranked players on this site's board — 12 teams. Pick a team for its breakdown, roster, team news and player news. Pages refresh with the site's daily update.
Nippon Professional Baseball
- Chiba Lotte Marines 6 ranked
- Chunichi Dragons 5 ranked
- Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 7 ranked
- Hanshin Tigers 7 ranked
- Hiroshima Toyo Carp 3 ranked
- Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 6 ranked
- ORIX Buffaloes 6 ranked
- Saitama Seibu Lions 6 ranked
- Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 6 ranked
- Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6 ranked
- Yokohama DeNA BayStars 4 ranked
- Yomiuri Giants 5 ranked