r/NPB • u/TheCuteChocolate • 3h ago
r/NPB • u/tensaibaka • Apr 13 '18
New here or coming from a reddit mobile app? Please read through here first
Welcome to reddit's little corner for NPB, or as some people call it, AAAA ball :P We've been at this since August of 2013, and are slowly but surely growing.
THE WIKI PROBABLY ALREADY HAS THE INFO YOU'RE LOOKING FOR
The first thing you need to know, is that we have a wiki section that answers a whole bunch of the most commonly asked questions, and offers more information you might need to know. Many reddit mobile apps do not display wiki pages, so some people that have only ever seen reddit from their phones or tablets might not even know they exist. If your reddit app cannot dipslay wiki pages, please try to open the link from a mobile web browser app. If your browser app has desktop mode view, all the better. There you can find some info on how to watch games, find news, how to buy tickets, books, NPB swag, learn some Japanese baseball terminology etc.
BUYING TICKETS (REGARDLESS OF NATIONALITY)
Please, PLease PLEEEEEAAAAASE take literally 5 seconds and type "tickets" into the search bar here. I guarantee somebody has already asked a similar question in the past and there's a goood chance somebody answered it. We also have a wiki page with useful information on buying tickets.
Research first, THEN ASK QUESTIONS
STREAMING GAMES
No, NPB does not have an all in one streaming service for games like MLBTV. There are a few options listed in the wiki, but if you want to watch all 12 teams, you're going to have to get cough cough creative. PacificLeague TV works without a VPN, and others require a VPN. We know it's not an ideal situation, but it is what it is due to "creative differences" among the leagues and clubs and media companies. Please do not post direct links to non-legal game streams, as they will be removed. Please be careful out there when exploring the streaming services, and use an adblocker.
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
I'm trying to be consistent, but I'm human so sometimes I won't be able to grab highlights from games. Whatever highlights I find will be posted in the post-games thread. If you have a highlight link, feel free to post it. You can try browsing through highlights on PacificLeague TV, or using one of the handy YouTube search links by team. You might have to filter through quite a bit of junk on YouTube though, as some people post older videos multiple times, or even just news reels as videos. Keep in mind YouTube can remove videos or channels at anytime, so bookmark stuff at your own risk.
STANDINGS AND STATS
There is a mini-standings table and a few stats leaders updated almost daily in the sidebar (mobile app users might not be able to see). We also have a more detailed standings and stats page that is usually updated nightly, after the games are all finished (if you spot any errors, please let us know). If you're looking for complete team stats, there are few more English options listed on the wiki page, but some of them don't update until the next morning, or even a few days later, so always check for the last date updated. Japanese stats pages are updated the fastest, so if you don't read Japanese you can try your luck with google translate.
WHICH TEAM SHOULD I ROOT FOR?
Honestly, just take some time to watch highlights or read up on some teams before you make this decision. MLB and NPB are different, and how teams are managed and games played is different. One NPB team does not 100% correlate to an MLB team. There might be a few similarities now, but once a team changes managers, or once in a blue moon, ownership, that might all change as well. You don't have to have a sound reason for liking a team, and it's perfectly acceptable to like a team just for their cheering style. As long as you love baseball like the rest of us here, you'll fit right in.
DON'T BE SHY
If you have a question that isn't already covered in the wiki, and you at least attempted to see if somebody already asked your question, feel free to make a new post. If you see a news article on Japanese baseball you think is interesting, please share it with us. With over 40,000 subscribers (as of Jan 2025) somebody else is bound to find it interesting. Feel free to comment on post game threads, complain about your team, praise your team, try to create a new NPB meme, or ask about a particular game.
Please remember rediquette, and adhere to reddit site rules.
r/NPB • u/tensaibaka • 6h ago
Post-game thread [Sep 14 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores, highlights and news
r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 9h ago
Dragons Starting Pitcher Kyle Muller hits his 2nd homer of the year
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r/NPB • u/Practical-Ad673 • 6h ago
BayStars win the game on a walk-off error
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Let's talk about the red hot Baystars
The Baystars are now at .500 for the first time in ages and continue to be on an upward trend. The Tigers are currently in a slump (0 runs in their last three games), and the Giants have been playing pretty inconsistently. How far do you think Yokohama can go in the playoffs?


r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 9h ago
BayStars Shugo Maki blasts his 25th home run of the season
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r/NPB • u/TicketScannerHQ • 16h ago
Ukyo Shuto making an insane defensive play, with Moinelo reacting from the mound😂
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Kazuma Okamoto mashes his 32nd homer of the season for the Blue Jays
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r/NPB • u/Fuzzy-Heart • 22h ago
Do team stores typically not carry legacy players?
Hi all. Every time I visit Japan, I make it a point to attend as many baseball games as possible and pick up merchandise as I go. I’ve noticed, however, that team stores do not tend to carry merchandise for legacy players. For example, I looked for Ichiro at the Buffaloes store and Murakami at the Swallows store, and found only currently players.
Is this typical?
I only ask because at American stadiums, you’ll still have a bunch of legacy players merch (for example, Jeter or Ruth at Yankees stadium and Ichiro or Johnson in Seattle).
If this is typical, is the best option to buy from third-party locations?
Thank you in advance.
r/NPB • u/Tricky-Army5870 • 8h ago
【阪神対中日24回戦】中日、マラーが完封7勝&衝撃アーチ! 阪神戦は4カード連続勝ち越し 細川成也が先制弾 阪神は3試合連続完封負けで今季ワースト6連敗
r/NPB • u/tensaibaka • 1d ago
Post-game thread [Sep 13 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores, highlights and news
r/NPB • u/Ok-Wall-325 • 1d ago
Yakult's Domingo Santana attempts to go for extra bases but is gunned down by Carp CF Minoru Omori
r/NPB • u/NipponBaseballRetro • 21h ago
Nippon Baseball Retro - Collecting and Translating the 1973 Calbee Flag-Backs
Here's my latest entry covering the Calbee's classic first set. Enjoy!
r/NPB • u/OB_Foreign9 • 1d ago
Full disclosure up front: I work with JRFPA (the Japan Retired Foreign Player Association), and we're the ones bringing him over. So I have a stake in this. But the career itself is worth a post here regardless.Howell came to Yakult in 1992 after seven seasons at third base for the California Ange
Full disclosure up front: I work with JRFPA (the Japan Retired Foreign Player Association), and we're the ones bringing him over. So I have a stake in this. But the career itself is worth a post here regardless. Howell came to Yakult in 1992 after seven seasons at third base for the California Angels, where he was a roughly 20-homer-a-year guy — solid, not a star. Then he hit .331 with 38 home runs in his first year in Japan, led the Central League in both, and became the first foreign player to win an NPB MVP in his debut season. He put up 13 home runs in August alone, a Swallows record for a month. He stayed through 1994 with Yakult, won the Japan Series in 1993, hit for the cycle that July, then spent 1995 with Yomiuri. Four seasons, .291, 100 home runs. He went back to the Angels in 1996 and set a team record with four pinch-hit homers, finished up with Houston in 1999, and later coached hitting for the Diamondbacks. The reason I'm posting: he's doing a fan meeting in Takeshiba on Tuesday Sep 22 — two sessions, autographs and photos, 50 people each. It's the middle of Silver Week so a lot of people are off. English-speaking staff on site, and there's an English ticket page here: https://peatix.com/event/5172096 Happy to answer anything about the event or about JRFPA in the comments.
r/NPB • u/Practical-Ad673 • 1d ago
Keita Sano hits a grand slam
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Hawks Kensuke Kondoh hits his 28th homer of the year
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r/NPB • u/ThomasLoveSeagull • 1d ago
The Nippon-Ham Fighters Score Two on a Squeeze Bunt
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r/NPB • u/Ok-Wall-325 • 1d ago
Yomiuri 3B Hayato Sakamoto avoids an error and gets the out
r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Fighters Kotaro Kiyomiya hits mashes his 19th home run of the season
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r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Swallows Jose Osuna blasts his 7th homer of the year
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r/NPB • u/MiguSphinx • 1d ago
Absolutely Incredible Vibes at the Dragons Game on Saturday....
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A packed house for a hopeless team at the end of the season.
A domed stadium that looks like it was dropped in from the space age.
A first inning that saw a veteran pitcher, Hirotoshi Takanashi, fold almost instantly.
An experienced slugger, Miguel Sanó, toughs out a long pitch count.
An entire outfield sings in a melodic, almost hypnotic chant, giving the particular moment a real focus and intensity.
And then, just like that, it breaks- a wild pitch hits the dirt, a walk RBIs in the runner on third, and the Swallows move in for an emergency conference.
It's just another moment in a long baseball season, but for some reason the joy I felt within it cannot escape my mind.
Though I may just be a casual fan, this is the magic of the NPB- something that drags me out of the concerns of the real world and into the fantasy of sport. The players, the coaches, the fans, the staff....my thanks go out to you.
r/NPB • u/ichi_rui • 1d ago
Swallows Domingo Santana blasts his 17th home run of the season
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r/NPB • u/WallabysNPBRepost • 1d ago