2007 NPB season | |
League: | Nippon Professional Baseball |
Sport: | Baseball |
Duration: | March 24 - November 1 |
Season2: | Central League Pennant |
League Champs2: | Yomiuri Giants |
Second Place2: | Chunichi Dragons |
Mvp2: | Michihiro Ogasawara (Yomiuri) |
Mvp Link2: | Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award |
Season3: | Pacific League Pennant |
League Champs3: | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters |
Second Place3: | Chiba Lotte Marines |
Mvp3: | Yu Darvish (Nippon Ham) |
Mvp Link3: | Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award |
Playoffs: | Climax Series |
Playoffs Link: | Climax Series |
Conf1: | CL |
Conf1 Link: | 2007 Central League Climax Series |
Conf1 Champ: | Chunichi Dragons |
Conf1 Runner-Up: | Yomiuri Giants |
Conf2: | PL |
Conf2 Link: | 2007 Pacific League Climax Series |
Conf2 Champ: | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters |
Conf2 Runner-Up: | Chiba Lotte Marines |
Finals: | Japan Series |
Finals Link: | 2007 Japan Series |
Finals Champ: | Chunichi Dragons |
Finals Runner-Up: | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters |
Finals Mvp: | Norihiro Nakamura (Chunichi) |
Finals Mvp Link: | Japan Series Most Valuable Player Award |
Seasonslist: | List of Nippon Professional Baseball seasons |
Seasonslistnames: | NPB |
Prevseason Link: | 2006 Nippon Professional Baseball season |
Prevseason Year: | 2006 |
Nextseason Link: | 2008 Nippon Professional Baseball season |
Nextseason Year: | 2008 |
The 2007 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 58th season since the NPB was reorganized in and the first to feature the Climax Series.
See main article: 2007 Central League Climax Series and 2007 Pacific League Climax Series. Climax Series was firstly introduced in this season. It was inspired by the playoff system introduced by Pacific League between 2004 and 2006, in which the top three teams of the league will play in a stepladder knockout to decide the team to play in the Japan Series. The system was a success when Pacific League's teams won all the Japan Series since the introduction of such system. This is also the Central League's first participation in playoff system since 1949.
Climax Series does not affect the team's standings, nor individual's record in the Regular Season.
Central League
Pacific League
Central League
Position | Player | Team | |
---|---|---|---|
P | Hisanori Takahashi | Yomiuri Giants | |
C | Shinnosuke Abe | Yomiuri Giants | |
1B | Tyrone Woods | Chunichi Dragons | |
2B | Hiroyasu Tanaka | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |
3B | Michihiro Ogasawara | Yomiuri Giants | |
SS | Hirokazu Ibata | Chunichi Dragons | |
OF | Norichika Aoki | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |
OF | Alex Ramirez | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |
OF | Yoshinobu Takahashi | Yomiuri Giants |
Pacific League
Position | Player | Team | |
---|---|---|---|
P | Yu Darvish | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
C | Tomoya Satozaki | Chiba Lotte Marines | |
1B | Alex Cabrera | Seibu Lions | |
2B | Kensuke Tanaka | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
3B | Greg LaRocca | Orix Buffaloes | |
SS | Tsuyoshi Nishioka | Chiba Lotte Marines | |
OF | Atsunori Inaba | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
OF | Hichori Morimoto | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
OF | Naoyuki Ohmura | Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks | |
DH | Takeshi Yamasaki | Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles |
Central League
Position | Player | Team | |
---|---|---|---|
P | Kenshin Kawakami | Chunichi Dragons | |
C | Motonobu Tanishige | Chunichi Dragons | |
1B | Andy Sheets | Hanshin Tigers | |
2B | Masahiro Araki | Chunichi Dragons | |
3B | Norihiro Nakamura | Chunichi Dragons | |
SS | Hirokazu Ibata | Chunichi Dragons | |
OF | Tatsuhiko Kinjo | Yokohama BayStars | |
OF | Norichika Aoki | Tokyo Yakult Swallows | |
OF | Yoshinobu Takahashi | Yomiuri Giants |
Pacific League
Position | Player | Team | |
---|---|---|---|
P | Yu Darvish | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
C | Tomoya Satozaki | Chiba Lotte Marines | |
1B | Kazuya Fukuura | Chiba Lotte Marines | |
2B | Kensuke Tanaka | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
3B | Toshiaki Imae | Chiba Lotte Marines | |
SS | Tsuyoshi Nishioka | Chiba Lotte Marines | |
OF | Atsunori Inaba | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
OF | Hichori Morimoto | Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters | |
OF | Saburo Ohmura | Chiba Lotte Marines |