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Nippon Professional Baseball Agreement
is an agreement that the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization stipulates all NPB regulations, such as player contracts, draft and commissioner authority. Summary Nippon Professional Baseball Agreement came into effect on June 21, and is being revised from time to time. This Agreement consists of this article and the unified contract document format used by all players when making a contract. All regulations such as draft meetings, player contracts, commissioner authority, etc. are stipulated, and NPB is operated based on this agreement, which is also called the "Constitution of Nippon Professional Baseball". As the rules attached to this agreement, the rules of the Developmental player system (日本プロ野球育成選手に関する規約) and the rules of the operation of the Nippon Professional Baseball draft (新人選手選択会議規約) and the rules of the free agent system. (フリーエージェント規約) etc. are stipulated. Composition * Chapter 1: Ge ...
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Nippon Professional Baseball
or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called , meaning ''Professional Baseball''. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the in Tokyo, founded in 1934, and the original circuit for the sport in the Empire two years later – Japanese Baseball League (1936–1949), and continued to play even through the final years of World War II. The league that is today's NPB for Japan was formed when that sports organization reorganized in 1950, creating two leagues with six teams each in the Central League and the Pacific League with an annual season-ending Japan Series championship play-off series of games starting that year. The NPB also oversees the Western League (Japanese baseball), Western League and the Eastern League (Japanese baseball), Eastern League, NPB's minor league, minor leagues. Since the first Japan Series in , the Yomiuri Giants have the most cha ...
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Developmental Player System (Nippon Professional Baseball)
The is a system that allows players to be held for the purpose of training players separately from the 70 Registered players under control of each team created in the fall of at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Summary This system was established in 2005 to create an environment in which amateur players can newly play in the situation where company-owned amateur baseball teams were being abolished one after another. A is a player who aims to improve baseball skill training and manner training in order to aim for registered players under control, that is eligible to participate in NPB's first league official game (Central League, Pacific League, Interleague play (NPB)). (Regulations for NPB Developmental players, Article 2) A developmental players include players drafted as rookies (e.g. Yusuke Kosai and Michitaka Nishiyama, drafted developmental player who were first signed as a registered player under control in .), foreign players signed as developmental players (e.g ...
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Climax Series
The is the current annual playoff system implemented by Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). It determines which team from the Central League (CL) and from the Pacific League (PL) will advance to compete for the championship in the Japan Series. After the creation of the NPB's two-league system in 1950, the PL experimented with three different playoff systems. In 2004, it implemented the postseason structure from which the Climax Series is based. After three seasons, the CL adopted the same system in 2007, creating the current, unified playoff format. Both leagues play a regular season, after which the top three teams in each league compete against one another in a two-stage playoff. In the First Stage, the teams that finish the regular season with the second- and third-best records play one another in a best-of-three series. The winners of these three-game series advance to the Final Stage to face each league's regular-season champion in a six-game series, which the regul ...
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Nippon Professional Baseball Rosters
A Nippon Professional Baseball roster is a list of players who are allowed by NPB Agreement to play in Nippon Professional Baseball's first leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League (NPB Agreement, Article 81). This list is created from each team's Registered players under control (NPB Agreement, Article 52)., and can be arbitrarily registered and unregistered at any time during the season (NPB Agreement, Article 85). Also, the results of the list changes are announced by the NPB organization every day during the season and can be viewed. Summary Players registered on the list are also said to be First squad player, and play in the first squad Central League and Pacific League. Other players are called Second squad players and Third squad players, and play in the second squad Eastern League and Western League, and play in unofficial games with independent leagues (NPB Agreement, Article 81, and Article 170). However, unlike the relationship between major leaguers and mi ...
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Registration Of Players Under Control (Nippon Professional Baseball)
A is the process of notifying the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) that a team of professional baseball teams affiliated with the NPB has the exclusive and exclusive status to sign a contract with a specific player. (NPB Agreement, Article 52) A player whose Unified contract documents used for player contracts has been approved and published by the NPB organization is called a or a , and Under Article 68 of the NPB Agreement, a team has exclusive ownership of a player unless the player becomes a free agent. Summary In general, controlled players refer to players on a team, excluding players on Developmental player. Among these players, players who have been player registered will play in the first league's Central League and Pacific League, and other players will play in the second league's Eastern League and Western League. (NPB Agreement, Article 81, 170) Players must fulfill their obligation to participate in official games (Central League Pacific League, ...
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