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2026 Nippon Professional Baseball season
77th annual season of Nippon Professional Baseball
2026 Nippon Professional Baseball season
The 2026 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 77th season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950. There are 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League. The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks entered the season as the defending champions. The 2026 season introduced a new playoff clause that stated that if the lower seeded team in the second round of the Climax Series finished either below .500 or more than 10 games behind the league's pennant winner, the lower seeded team would be placed with a 1 game disadvantage on top of the 1 game advantage the league's pennant winner receives in the second round, meaning that the lower seed would have to win 5 games while the pennant winner only had to win 3. On October 1st, with a win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, the Pacific League pennant winning Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks activated this clause in its first season of implementation by guaranteeing they would...
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