2019 Nippon Professional Baseball season

The 2019 Nippon Professional Baseball season began on March 29. It was the 70th season since Nippon Professional Baseball was reorganized in 1950. There are 12 teams NPB, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League. The 2019 NPB season was 143 games long; teams in each league played 125 games against each other and 18 interleague games. The regular season was scheduled to end on September 24 except for any make-up games scheduled after it; the regular season eventually concluded on September 30. The top three teams in each league proceed to the Climax Series, NPB's postseason system.

League leaders

Stat	Player	Team	Total
Batting average	Tomoya Mori	Saitama Seibu Lions	.329
Home runs	Hotaka Yamakawa	Saitama Seibu Lions	43
Runs batted in	Takeya Nakamura	Saitama Seibu Lions	123
Runs	Shogo Akiyama	Saitama Seibu Lions	112
Hits	Shogo Akiyama	Saitama Seibu Lions	179
Stolen bases	Yuji Kaneko	Saitama Seibu Lions	41
On-base percentage	Kensuke Kondo	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters	.422
Slugging percentage	Tomoya Mori	Saitama Seibu Lions	.547

Stat	Player	Team	Total
Wins	Kohei Arihara	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters	15
Earned run average	Yoshinobu Yamamoto	Orix Buffaloes	1.95
Strikeouts	Kodai Senga	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	227
Innings pitched	Kodai Senga	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	180.1
Saves	Yuki Matsui	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	38
Holds	Naoki Miyanishi	Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters	43
Winning percentage	Taisuke Yamaoka	Orix Buffaloes	.765

#	Team	Average
1	Hanshin Tigers	42,935
2	Yomiuri Giants	42,643
3	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	36,891
4	Chunichi Dragons	31,741
5	Yokohama DeNA BayStars	31,716
6	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	31,319
7	Tokyo Yakult Swallows	27,543
8	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	27,368
9	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	25,659
10	Saitama Seibu Lions	25,299
11	ORIX Buffaloes	24,423
12	Chiba Lotte Marines	23,463

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