The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 67th season since the NPB was reorganized in
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 cr ...
.
Incidents
A gambling scandal involving members of the
Yomiuri Giants
The are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams based in Tokyo, the other being the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. They ...
was reported in October. Pitchers
Satoshi Fukuda
is a Japanese Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) pitcher who last played for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Central League.
In October, 2015, Fukuda was named as a result of an investigation conducted by the Giants into illegal betting on profes ...
,
Shoki Kasahara
(born January 9, 1991 in Fukuoka) is a Japanese former professional baseball player who played for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball from 2012 to 2015. His younger brother Taiga is also a professional baseball player cur ...
, and
Ryuya Matsumoto
(born April 29, 1993) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher who last played for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. In November 2015 he was one of three Giants players handed a penalty of indefinite disqualification ...
were found to have bet on both NPB games and
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
games, as well as high school baseball.
Regular season standings
Climax Series
''Note: In each league's stepladder playoff system (Climax Series), all games in that series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advanced if the round ended in a tie.''
First stage
Central League
Pacific League
Final stage
Central League
Pacific League
Japan Series
League leaders
Central League
Pacific League
Attendances
See also
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2016 KBO League season
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2016 Major League Baseball season
The 2016 Major League Baseball season began on April 3, 2016 with a Sunday afternoon matchup between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Pirates, the two teams with the best regular-season records in 2015, at PNC Park in Pittsburgh. T ...
References
{{Nippon Professional Baseball Seasons