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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球, Puroyagu), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
Despite losing five consecutive games from the opening game on March 28, On May 26, a banned drug was detected to be used by Luis Gonzalez, so he was suspended for 1 year from Nippon Professional Baseball for violating league anti-doping policies, [14] and on the following day, the Giants decided to release Gonzalez from his contract. At the ...
In Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the Japanese major leagues, number 18 is often reserved for the ace pitcher. [22] Upon arriving in MLB, Japanese "import" pitchers have sought the number again (including Hiroki Kuroda, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hisashi Iwakuma, Kenta Maeda, and Yusei Kikuchi).
The team plays in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball. They have won the Central League pennant nine times (most recently in 2011 ) and the Japan Series twice (in 1954 and 2007 ). They were also champions in the 2007 Asia Series .
The club's name was changed to the Nippon-Ham Fighters, its official name became the Nippon-Ham Baseball Corporation. Osamu Mihara became the team president and Futoshi Nakanishi, Mihara's son-in-law, as its manager. After 27 years, the "Flyers" nickname was abandoned. The "Fighters" nickname was born from a public appeal by the team's management.