Author: Yakyu Cosmopolitan
The Best Pitching Seasons Since 2020
Last time, we looked at the top ten hitting seasons of the 2020s in Nippon Professional Baseball. This time, we flip over to the pitchers. Batting can be analyzed pretty easily by viewing production through OPS+ or wRC+. Players can overperform or underperform their expected numbers due to batted ball luck, but things typically start…
The Best Hitting Seasons Since 2020
The early 2020s will be remembered as a very unusual time in Nippon Professional Baseball history. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 marked the fewest games played in a season since 1950 (though the 120-game schedule still doubled what Major League Baseball could muster). In 2021, NPB returned to a full 143-game schedule, but extra…