Category talk:Nippon Pro Baseball Players

Got 50 players categorized so far. Many more MLB/NPB guys to go, plus any non-MLB NPB players who get articles.

- Mischa

good stuff. I think there was 0 this morning. --Pti 13:45, 11 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Jim Albright posted pics of some Japanese greats at http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=52223 - I'm not an image person. Does someone want to transfer them here? - --Mischa 08:25, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

We're up to 1,000 players! A fair number are stubs or incomplete but I'd guess that 50% are mostly complete - --Mischa 16:11, 5 June 2007 (EDT)

1,100. Slower growth as we've been focusing on other countries but it's starting to pick up again I think. - --Mischa 13:09, 3 November 2008 (EST)

1,250. 150 in 11 months is a big improvement over the 100 in 15 months we had in the last stretch. - --Mischa 11:55, 9 October 2009 (EDT)

1,400. 150 in the last 7 months - the pace is picking up. - --Mischa 12:55, 27 May 2010 (EDT)

1,500. - --Mischa 16:15, 8 November 2010 (EST)

1,600. - --Mischa 11:11, 13 April 2011 (EDT)

Over 1,700 at some point. - --Mischa 11:54, 2 March 2012 (EST)

Takeshi Yamakawa makes it 1,800. Looks like we're at about 100 per year for a few years now. - --Mischa (talk) 13:47, 11 July 2013 (EDT)

Yataro Oishi brings us to 1,900 - --Mischa (talk) 11:53, 11 February 2014 (EST)

Up to 2,000 with Shinjiro Hiyama - --Mischa (talk) 13:55, 20 February 2015 (EST)

Takao Sato gets us to 2,100; keeping up the 100 per year pace for pretty much the past five years. - --Mischa (talk) 13:26, 1 January 2016 (EST)

How many guys have played in NPB total? How many more do we need to go before each of them have articles? Alex (talk) 17:50, 15 January 2016 (EST)

I'm guessing we're about halfway there, but that's just a very rough estimate. The fact that we just got a former home run king (Sato) means they're likely lots of bench warmers, let alone All-Stars, left. Checking the Michael Eng database, there were 8,162 players through 2012, so we're just over a quarter of the way. - --Mischa (talk) 09:05, 18 January 2016 (EST)

Yurisbel Gracial brings it to 2,200 here - --Mischa (talk) 14:41, 28 October 2018 (UTC)

Kaima Taira is #2,300 - Mischa (talk) 17:29, 23 December 2020 (UTC)

The 2,400th is Fujio Yamaguchi - Mischa (talk) 14:27, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

Up to 2,500. I think Ryan McBroom was #2,500 here. - Mischa (talk) 09:52, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

I had completed all Japanese player's Japanese name. Only two of them still missed High School, and there's still 55 stubs needed to fix. If anyone found a Japanese player without Japanese name, please inform me, I thought there's still someone I can't reach. (For example, Hirotami Kojima.) - Rugosa1134 (talk) 13:07, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Hiroaki Suzuki‎ is the 2,600th - Mischa (talk) 13:23, 30 June 2023 (UTC)

To 2,700 with Masahiro Kimura - Mischa (talk) 16:48, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

I recently discovered this website:

https://sp.baseball.findfriends.jp/

That some members here might find useful. Many Japanese players are lacking death details on Baseball Reference; the aforementioned website helps provide some leads, as it has years of death for many players that BR still lists as alive.

To use the site, I would recommend translating to English, then scrolling to the "Player Data" search bar. There you can input any player's name, but it must be in the Japanese form. Alex (talk) 22:56, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

Enny Romero is the 2,800th - Rugosa1134 (talk) 06:28, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

The 2,900th is Seiya Hosokawa - Mischa (talk) 11:49, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

Hiroyuki Fukuyama‎ gets us to 3,000! - Mischa (talk) 12:52, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Our 3,100th was Shinichiro Ihara - Mischa (talk) 17:02, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

#3,200 is Koji Himeno - Mischa (talk) 09:41, 18 March 2024 (UTC)

Akira Kawamura brings us to 3,300. - Mischa (talk) 18:25, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

We now have every NPB players who won a award, played in All-Star, led the league in main stats once, in the Top 100 of the career leaderboard of main stats and got 100 wins or 1,000 hits in their career. Comparing the speed of creating pages and new players appearing, I don't think we can cover all NPB players one day. However, we can said that we had cover every important players in NPB history. There's still two superstar's page was not good, I would fix them if I had time - Rugosa1134 (talk) 14:54, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Any idea how many players are in NPB history? If it's 10,000 or so now (it was 8,162 through 2012), then we've covered about a third in under 20 years - and many of the remaining ones are quicker pages. It's conceivable to finish in your lifetime, maybe even in mine. - Mischa (talk) 15:12, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

9,856 as of 2024, approximately 180 more per year - Rugosa1134 (talk) 15:59, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

We added about 700 in the last year so it's feasible to eventually get there. - Mischa (talk) 16:17, 28 June 2024 (UTC)

Yuya Nirasawa is #3,400 - Mischa (talk) 09:46, 13 September 2024 (UTC)