Positional Strength Overview By Teams

	11-24-2020
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Nippon Professional Baseball League Positional Strength Overview By Teams

Chiba Howlers 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Masaru Suitani	2nd	Taheiji Tenno	3rd	1st
First Basemen	Nicholas Lyke	6th	John Roberts	3rd	2nd
Second Basemen	Kenshin Matsuura	5th	Yoshikazu Hori	Tied for 8th	9th
Third Basemen	Tetsu Suzuki	5th		Tied for 10th	10th
Shortstops	Satoru Yamasaki	9th	Senzo Kimura	4th	6th
Left Fielders	Todd Miller	1st	Sadao Oike	Tied for 10th	10th
Center Fielders	Okitsugu Takata	8th	Okitsugu Takata	1st	4th
Right Fielders	Eisaku Terada	12th	Naonobu Fujihara	Tied for 5th	12th
Starting Pitchers	Taikan Fukuda	5th	Tamotsu Oike	1st	5th
Relievers	Shigenobu Arai	4th	Soshu Takeuchi	4th	4th
Closers	Kenji Matsumoto	1st	Hideaki Furukawa	1st	1st

Chunichi Plainsmen 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Tokimasa Heida	1st	Morimasa Yagi	Tied for 9th	8th
First Basemen	John Green	1st	Motoyuki Kawano	8th	3rd
Second Basemen	Shihi Eida	1st	Noriyuki Ine	7th	5th
Third Basemen	Kimitada Sato	3rd	Jun Minami	5th	3rd
Shortstops	Kinnojo Sanu	8th	Shigekazu Memoto	2nd	4th
Left Fielders	Tokaji Takaki	9th	Munenori Ichikawa	7th	9th
Center Fielders	Sadaharu Sakei	2nd	Kumanosuke Shibutani	9th	5th
Right Fielders	Michinori Sano	3rd	Tomomi Ohara	4th	3rd
Starting Pitchers	Akio Kawamura	4th	Leland Bond	Tied for 1st	4th
Relievers	Toyokazu Kumagai	6th	Katsuyoshi Miyamoto	3rd	5th
Closers	Naoki Nakamura	9th	Shinobu Yoshida	2nd	4th

Fukuoka Felons 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Shotaro Mori	3rd		9th	9th
First Basemen	Clifford Bauman	4th	Kagetoki Kouno	Tied for 9th	10th
Second Basemen	Takeru Ikeda	7th	Hidehira Hasegawa	5th	7th
Third Basemen	Munoto Nakamura	8th	Oda Nemoto	8th	8th
Shortstops	Hisashi Nakamura	6th		Tied for 8th	10th
Left Fielders	Toshiki Minoru	2nd	Yunosuke Suzuki	6th	2nd
Center Fielders	Yoshitomo Wada	6th	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa	5th	6th
Right Fielders	Akira Taniguchi	4th	Kantaro Oka	Tied for 5th	6th
Starting Pitchers	Yoshiaga Kouki	3rd	Magohachi Ishii	Tied for 1st	3rd
Relievers	Shojiro Abe	5th	Kosaku Kondo	10th	7th
Closers	Shigenobu Fujihara	8th	Iwane Kobayashi	11th	11th

Hanshin Golden Lions 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	José Ária	10th	Tokimasa Murakami	7th	6th
First Basemen	Yoshifumi Takahashi	5th	Misao Aoki	Tied for 9th	11th
Second Basemen	Yasunobu Toyota	6th	Jake Norrey	4th	Tied for 3rd
Third Basemen	Alex Udall	1st	Alex Udall	1st	1st
Shortstops	Mototsune Higashiyama	11th	Masami Kino	1st	5th
Left Fielders	Masamichi Ishii	12th	Mitsuoki Goto	1st	3rd
Center Fielders	Shigenobu Kawamura	10th	Kazu Kato	6th	9th
Right Fielders	Iemochi Jouda	10th	Juan Miranda	Tied for 5th	10th
Starting Pitchers	Esequiel Rivera	11th	Naomi Sawada	Tied for 1st	11th
Relievers	Tsurayuki Nakano	9th	Mitsuhide Maruyama	8th	10th
Closers	Ryoma Higuchi	4th	Yasukazu Kiyomizu	12th	10th

Hiroshima Locomotives 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Akinori Kawaguchi	6th	Tomomi Yamamoto	Tied for 9th	11th
First Basemen	Kelly Lepore	3rd	Kawanari Ogasahara	5th	1st
Second Basemen	Kansuke Kawasaki	9th	Terumoto Ohashi	8th	11th
Third Basemen	Akira Ichihara	9th	Tetsui Kishita	10th	11th
Shortstops	Tokimune Takahashi	7th	Tamasaburo Kichida	8th	11th
Left Fielders	Kazuki Suzuki	4th	Kazushi Rin	9th	6th
Center Fielders	Takeru Kichida	1st	Mike Walker	Tied for 10th	10th
Right Fielders	Takiji Takahashi	6th	Masato Taguchi	2nd	2nd
Starting Pitchers	Kenko Miyamoto	10th	Kunihiko Sakuma	Tied for 1st	10th
Relievers	Kosaku Ito	8th	Sotatsu Yoshida	11th	8th
Closers	Sotan Iwasaki	7th	Yoshihide Sugahara	6th	5th

Hokkaido Loyalists 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Jose Dediego	4th	Tokugawa Fujihara	2nd	3rd
First Basemen	Hirokumi Imatsu	8th	Masaru Fujita	2nd	5th
Second Basemen	Luis Muñóz	2nd	Okakura Chikafuji	6th	3rd
Third Basemen	Shinsui Morishita	4th	Masashi Saito	9th	6th
Shortstops	Tatsui Daisen	3rd	Seiji Kimura	7th	2nd
Left Fielders	Katsuyuki Yamasaki	8th	Nori Shiraishi	10th	12th
Center Fielders	Tetsu Chikuda	3rd	Kurt Ash	4th	3rd
Right Fielders	Naganori Takata	11th	Kiyonori Mori	5th	11th
Starting Pitchers	Shinsaku Osani	9th	Yoichibei Nakao	Tied for 1st	9th
Relievers	Shimpei Suzuki	12th	Tsugumichi Inagaki	5th	11th
Closers	Yusuke Suzuki	11th	Shiba Kogawa	5th	8th

Orix Evaders 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Luke Wilson	11th	Tsurayuki Takayama	1st	2nd
First Basemen	Hidemichi Tada	9th	Javier Guerrero	1st	6th
Second Basemen	Carlos Ramírez	11th	Okitsugu Nakamura	1st	2nd
Third Basemen	Yasuoka Takeuchi	10th	Yasuoka Takeuchi	3rd	5th
Shortstops	Hirokazu Hashimoto	1st	Mitsuhide Seki	Tied for 8th	8th
Left Fielders	Yoshino Mizutani	5th	Yataro Takahashi	2nd	1st
Center Fielders	Kenshin Yamaguchi	7th	Yasuo Kato	8th	7th
Right Fielders	Naohiro Shimada	9th	Munemitsu Yoshimura	Tied for 5th	9th
Starting Pitchers	Shinsaku Wada	6th		Tied for 1st	6th
Relievers	Sugimoto Suzuki	11th	Shigenobu Miyata	12th	12th
Closers	Saikaku Uemura	12th	Motoshige Takaki	7th	12th

Seibu Czars 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Mike Neal	8th	Takeichi Sanu	6th	5th
First Basemen	Izumo Sasaki	11th	Haruki Kobayashi	9th	12th
Second Basemen	Tadayuki Kuwabara	10th	Tadayuki Kuwabara	3rd	6th
Third Basemen	Noriyuki Takahashi	11th	Haranobu Sakamoto	Tied for 10th	12th
Shortstops	Sotaro Kimura	12th	Magobei Saito	5th	7th
Left Fielders	Yoshiteru Takahashi	3rd	Kiminobu Ueda	8th	4th
Center Fielders	Kantaro Komatsu	12th		Tied for 10th	12th
Right Fielders	Kazunari Gato	7th	Taisho Goto	3rd	4th
Starting Pitchers	Tatsui Shibata	8th	Tadahisa Matsuoka	Tied for 1st	8th
Relievers	Tomokazu Kamida	3rd	Shoin Shinohara	1st	3rd
Closers	Hirohisa Hayagawa	5th	Iemochi Suzuki	Tied for 3rd	3rd

Tohoku Mercenaries 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	León Deleón	5th	Shusaku Hoshino	Tied for 9th	10th
First Basemen	Atsumori Kaneko	10th	Meiji Katsumata	7th	8th
Second Basemen	Soetsu Takeuchi	12th	Suezo Sano	Tied for 8th	12th
Third Basemen	Naruhiko Yagi	12th	Tanyu Nakagawa	4th	9th
Shortstops	Kensaku Kato	10th	Yasujiro Samurakami	Tied for 8th	12th
Left Fielders	Junnosuke Ishii	7th	Ogai Suzuki	4th	5th
Center Fielders	Naganori Fujihara	Tied for 10th	Yasujiro Miyake	10th	11th
Right Fielders	Shirai Watanabe	5th	Torazo Hirai	Tied for 5th	7th
Starting Pitchers	Taizo Yamasaki	7th	Yasunobu Kogawa	Tied for 1st	7th
Relievers	Kensaku Sai	2nd	Kyoden Abe	2nd	1st
Closers	Nobuo Kato	6th	Tetsuhiko Yoshioka	8th	7th

Tokyo Earls 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Kikaku Sakei	12th	Yoshii Kumagai	4th	12th
First Basemen	Yeijiro Yoshida	12th	Shirai Sano	6th	7th
Second Basemen	Monty Jackson	3rd	Senzo Yoshida	2nd	1st
Third Basemen	Sachi Kichikawa	2nd	Tetsuo Kichida	6th	4th
Shortstops	Kimi Ohayashi	5th	Okakura Kiyomizu	6th	3rd
Left Fielders	Sadaharu Hashimoto	10th	Akira Fujita	5th	7th
Center Fielders	Yasukazu Hayashi	9th	Masuhiro Sanu	7th	8th
Right Fielders	José García	2nd	Justin Cunningham	1st	1st
Starting Pitchers	Katsumoto Takahashi	2nd	Shoji Rin	Tied for 1st	2nd
Relievers	Joji Morishita	10th	Shoji Rin	6th	9th
Closers	Doug Roberts	10th	Tadaaki Hagiwara	9th	9th

Yokohama Bravery 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Yoshiiku Ageda	9th	Mito Yamamoto	8th	7th
First Basemen	Phil Langley	7th	Hisamitsu Ishida	4th	4th
Second Basemen	Kunimatsu Maeda	4th	Manabu Ohayashi	Tied for 8th	8th
Third Basemen	Masafumi Yagi	7th	Keiji Motsuzuki	7th	7th
Shortstops	Takashi Sasaki	2nd	Akihiko Kan	3rd	1st
Left Fielders	Marc Mullins	11th	Tatsui Hashimoto	3rd	8th
Center Fielders	Kazuyoshi Matsumoto	5th	Bobby Johnson	2nd	1st
Right Fielders	Kunitaro Tanaka	1st	Shoichi Higashi	Tied for 5th	5th
Starting Pitchers	Ed Wright	12th	Sachi Maeda	Tied for 1st	12th
Relievers	Jun'ichi Sanu	7th	Seishiro Miyata	9th	6th
Closers	Okura Oyama	2nd	Noriaki Hirata	3rd	2nd

Yomiuri Greenfish 11-24-2020
Positional Strength Overview

Position	Top player	Team ranking	Top prospect	Organizational ranking	Overall ranking
Catchers	Michael Youngblood	7th	Katsuyoshi Suzuki	5th	4th
First Basemen	Takamori Suzuki	2nd		Tied for 9th	9th
Second Basemen	Toshiyuki Ishibashi	8th	Oda Watanabe	Tied for 8th	10th
Third Basemen	Mark Lawry	6th	Kenji Koizumi	2nd	2nd
Shortstops	Shohei Mori	4th	Tadaaki Tamura	Tied for 8th	9th
Left Fielders	Kaoru Nishida	6th	Masayoshi Rin	Tied for 10th	11th
Center Fielders	Takeru Kawaguchi	4th	Tekkan Aoyama	3rd	2nd
Right Fielders	Yaichiro Nakamura	8th		Tied for 5th	8th
Starting Pitchers	John Simpson	1st	Jeremy Jones	Tied for 1st	1st
Relievers	Hidekazu Aoki	1st	Masujiro Minami	7th	2nd
Closers	Keisuke Nakai	3rd	Masujiro Minami	10th	6th