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2022 is over, and Reiwa is also four years old. 33 years after the Showa era, the history of professional baseball is 86 years, but here I would like to make a ranking based on the total results in “Showa vs Heisei / Reiwa”.
First of all, the batter. The first year of 1989 was 1989, but the players who made their debut after 1985 were divided into “Heisei / Reiwa” and before that “Showa”, and they were ranked.
The basis was RC (Run Create). It is a comprehensive index that includes hits, extra-base hits, stolen bases, stolen bases, four dead balls, strikeouts, sacrifice bunts, and sacrifice flies. Not only is the batting average high, but there are also many extra-base hits and stolen bases, and players with a high on-base percentage have high scores.
The result was “Japan-US total”. Since the level of competition and the environment are different between NPB and MLB, knowing that a simple comparison should not be made lightly-when considering the total results of athletes after Heisei, MLB results cannot be excluded. In order to evaluate the results that the players have accumulated, we dare to use “Japan-US total”.
The total for Japan and the United States is calculated from the debut at NPB. It does not include the results of players who joined the NPB baseball team after playing in MLB during the MLB era. Alfonso Soriano made his debut in Hiroshima and went to MLB to hit 2097 hits in Japan and the United States, but 2095 hits were MLB, so he couldn’t be included in this ranking. The east is divided into Showa and the west is divided into Heisei and Reiwa.
The smashers are slurping, led by the yokozuna and the king.
Sadaharu Oh is known for his yokozuna in the east. 868 home runs are untouchable. Ozeki is Isao Harimoto who also hit an untouchable 3085 hit. I retired from the familiar “Sunday morning face” in “Cheers!” Only last year. Sekiwake is Katsuya Nomura, a great catcher who died in February 2020. He also directed at Nankai, Yakult, Hanshin, and Rakuten. Hiromitsu Ochiai, who has won the Triple Crown three times in Komusubi. He built a golden age as a director of Chunichi.
In front of him, Hiromitsu Kadota, who won the double crown at the age of 40, and Hiromitsu Kadota, who won the MVP, Koji Yamamoto, the world’s stealing king, Yutaka Fukumoto, and Shigeo Nagashima, the greatest star in history who made professional baseball a “national pass time”. “Tetsujin” Kinugasa Sachio, who set a record for consecutive games. Kazuhiro Yamauchi reigned as the strongest hitter in professional baseball until Katsuya Nomura emerged. He was a master of shooting.
In the Showa era, everyone except Masahiro Doi was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The reason why Masahiro Doi, who recorded 2452 hits and 465 home runs at Kintetsu and Seibu, was not inducted into the Hall of Fame is being talked about at the time of the Hall of Fame commendation.
In the west, big players who played an active part in Japan and the United States line up at the top.
