Jan 21, 2021
Nippon Professional Baseball is looking to get back to a normal 143-game season after which both the Central and Pacific Leagues will stage their Climax Series this year even with COVID-19 continuing to hang over society.
NPB confirmed its plans during a meeting with all 12 teams on Wednesday. The league also reached agreements with the clubs on other matters mostly related to protocols and countermeasures for the virus that were raised during a meeting of the board of directors and team representatives on Tuesday.
The teams will begin their spring camps as scheduled on Feb. 1 in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures, though they’ll do so with no fans present.
Jan 13, 2021
Yokohama – The Yokohama DeNA BayStars have become one of Nippon Professional Baseball’s fastest-growing clubs over the last decade, and they have no plan to slow down anytime soon.
The 2021 season will mark the Central League team’s 10th anniversary since DeNA took over as its owner, and the BayStars are motivated to continue the growth of its fan base.
“We’ve gone through so many different things in the past 10 years,” BayStars president Shingo Okamura said Tuesday during a news conference at a Yokohama hotel. “Our team has grown year in and year out and advanced to the Climax Series and Japan Series. Unfortunately, we haven’t accomplished a (Japan Series) championship yet, but we have become a team that generates higher expectations.”