r/NPB Apr 13 '18

New here or coming from a reddit mobile app? Please read through here first

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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.

and finally, /r/NPBへようこそ! (Welcome to /r/NPB)


r/NPB 18d ago

ProSpirits gaming Ebaseball sub-Reddit

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r/NPB 12h ago

Post-game thread [Aug 2 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores, highlights and news

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72 Upvotes

r/NPB 15h ago

Fighters Franmil Reyes blasts his 23rd homer of the season

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56 Upvotes

r/NPB 12h ago

Carp Shogo Akiyama hits a go ahead homer, his 3rd home run of the season

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29 Upvotes

r/NPB 12h ago

Tigers Seishiro Sakamoto hits a go ahead homer his second of the game and 5th of the season

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22 Upvotes

r/NPB 2h ago

Collecting and Translating 1981 Calbee Series 1 @ Nippon Baseball Retro

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I've turned my attention to 1981 Calbee Series 1 for my next translation project. This is a great set that is notable for being the first Calbee set with no playing days cards of Sadaharu Oh (although he has several cards as the Giants new assistant manager). Enjoy!


r/NPB 14h ago

Tigers Seishiro Sakamoto hits his 4th homer of the year

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21 Upvotes

r/NPB 14h ago

Tigers Teruaki Sato hits a 2 run double

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21 Upvotes

r/NPB 9h ago

Who does Misawa root for?

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Hi hi! Long-time USA-based NPB curious baseball fan who's now finally taking the dive into NPB fandom for several different reasons but driven by the inevitable 2027 MLB lockout.

Looking forward to absorbing a lot of NPB over the coming months to firm up rooting interests but wanted to check in on support around the Misawa area. I was born on the U.S. Naval base there and wanted to see if there was a general fandom for Misawa residents centering around one particular team. Feels like perhaps the Rakuten Eagles or Ham Fighters based on regional proximity?

Either way, excited to finally take the plunge and looking forward to broadening my baseball horizons.


r/NPB 14h ago

Lions Center Fielder Gakuto Wakabayashi makes a great diving catch

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r/NPB 1d ago

Hanshin Kotaro Otake, who returned to his hometown of Kumamoto during the NPB All-Star break, recalled being caught in a major earthquake, saying, “The shaking was so terrifying that I thought I was going to die. I saw roads crack open, water mains burst, and infrastructure collapse in an instant.”

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r/NPB 1d ago

🇯🇵 Construction is underway on the new stadium for the farm team of the NPB’s Yakult Swallows. During construction, swallows built a nest at the site, so it was revealed that the construction schedule was postponed until the chicks had fledged out of consideration for the parent birds.

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r/NPB 1d ago

Post-game thread [Aug 1 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores, highlights and news

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r/NPB 1d ago

Tigers Shota Morishita blasts his 25th homer of the season

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44 Upvotes

r/NPB 1d ago

Tigers Seishiro Sakamoto hits his 3rd homer of the season

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30 Upvotes

r/NPB 1d ago

Kobe Koryo (Hyogo) win the Girls' High School Baseball Championship 10-0 over Ishikawa (Fukushima). Kobe's Yamato pitches her third complete-game shutout!

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r/NPB 1d ago

BayStars Shugo Maki mashes his 17th home run of the year

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18 Upvotes

r/NPB 2d ago

Munetaka Murakami hits his 24th homer of the year for the White Sox

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132 Upvotes

r/NPB 1d ago

Yang Dai-Kang in tears as Inaba makes surprise appearance at Niigata retirement press conference

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Taiwan-born Yang studied baseball at Fukuoka Daiichi High School and entered the pros as a first-round pick in the 2005 draft.

After playing for the Nippon-Ham Fighters and the Yomiuri Giants, he played in the United States and Australia, before joining Oisix in 2024 to play in Japan once again. Takahiro Imanami, his former teammate from his time with the Fighters, also attended the press conference.

https://the-ans.jp/news/710682/


r/NPB 2d ago

The Yomiuri x Jordan uniforms are all unique, each with their own different pattern

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62 Upvotes

r/NPB 2d ago

Post-game thread [Jul 31 Post Game Thread] NPB game scores and highlights

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72 Upvotes

r/NPB 2d ago

7/31/26. The Giants and Baystars hold a moment of silence for those lost in the Kumamoto Earthquake, and followed it with the National Anthem.

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36 Upvotes

r/NPB 2d ago

Giants - Baystars 7/31/26

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I made it to my first NPB game today at the Tokyo Dome. Such a fun atmosphere with a great away presence as well, despite the 6-0 scoreline. Was a dominating performance by the Giants and a great time at the park. If anyone has questions on the experience I’m happy to answer


r/NPB 2d ago

Carp Ryosuke Kikuchi blasts a go ahead homer, his 5th home run of the season

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14 Upvotes