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FuzzyRussianHat · 10-11-2025, 07:24 PM

The two-time defending East Asian Baseball champ Hamamatsu had possibly the best regular season any team has ever had in baseball history. The Chickenhawks finished at 126-36, tying the world record for wins in any world league. SAB’s Ho Chi Minh City did it in 1993 and OBA’s Christchurch in 2016, although neither of those teams ended up winning it all in their leagues. The world record for wins by a champion was 124 by SAB’s Ahmedabad (1995) and Mandalay (2028).

The old EAB wins record was 122 by Hamhung in 1926, who was upset in the Korea League final. 1950 Sapporo had the Japan League record of 121 wins; they lost in the EAB Championship. Hamamatsu in 2036 had a +426 run differential, second in world history behind only 2009 Hanoi in SAB at +452. That Hounds team went 122-40 and had a stunning first round exit.

The Chickenhawks won their fourth straight Central Division and set JL single-season team records for triple slash (.297/.343/.485), runs (874), and hits (1661). They also had EAB’s fewest runs allowed with 448. Hamamatsu unsurprisingly overshadowed a very impressive 107-55 season by Capital Division champ Kawasaki. It was their fourth straight division title and 100+ win season, as well as their sixth consecutive playoff trip. The Killer Whales’ 3,033,298 season attendance was the second-best in JL history and third in EAB history.

The remaining playoff spots had a very complicated soup as five teams finished game #162 with a 94-68 record. Three of them were in the North Division with Sapporo, Niigata, and Sendai; along with the Central’s Kyoto and Capital’s Saitama.
To sort out the North, the Green Dragons first defeated the Samurai, but lost to the Swordfish. Sapporo earned back-to-back berths, but it was their first division title since 2027.

Next was a pair of one-game playoffs with the winners getting wild cards and the losers eliminated. Niigata and Kyoto got the wins while Sendai and Saitama took the Ls. The Green Dragons earned their eighth playoff trip in a decade while the Kamikaze ended a six-year drought. The Samurai saw a three-year division title streak snapped. Lastly, the West Division had a clear winner with 89-73 Fukuoka as the only team above .500, ending a nine-year playoff drought. Last year’s JLCS runner-up Kitakyushu fell to 76-86.

Leading Hamamatsu’s historic charge was unanimous Japan League MVP Mitsuru Ishida. In his fifth season and third as a full-time starter, Ishida led in runs (140), hits (224), home runs (58), RBI (148), total bases (444), OBP (.447), slugging (.746), OPS (1.193), wRC+ (227), and WAR (12.4). He had 40 doubles and a .376 average, one point short of a Triple Crown.

The 24-year old Ishida was only the fifth in EAB history with a 140+ run effort. His OPS was also EAB’s seventh-best qualifying season, his OBP was ninth, and his WAR was 11^th among position players. The Chickenhawks had taken him out of high school with the #3 pick in the 2030 draft. The 6’8’’ righty had been the finals MVP in their 2034 championship run.

Pitcher of the Year was intense as Kawasaki’s Mitsumasa Suzuki got 19 first place votes and 210 points, edging out Hamamatsu’s Naka Sakurai at 17 and 119. The Chickenhawks’ Masamichi Kasai also had four first place votes and 133 points. It was the third POTY for Suzuki, who won in 2033 for the Killer Whales and in 2031 with Suwon in the Korea League. He had signed with Kawasaki for 2032 on a six-year, $201,300,000 deal.

The 30-year old righty led in strikeouts (345), WHIP (0.86), and shutouts (7). Suzuki had a 17-8 record, 1.95 ERA, 244.2 innings, 185 ERA+, and 9.0 WAR. On August 13, he tossed his first no-hitter with 15 Ks and 1 walk against Tokyo. His top POTY competitor Sakurai had a 27-3 record, only the fifth EAB pitcher to win 27+ in a season. Kasai meanwhile had 25 wins and led in WAR at 10.0.

Sapporo swept Niigata 3-0 and Fukuoka rallied for a 3-2 win over Kyoto in the wild card round. The Frogs shocked top-seed Hamamatsu with a 3-2 game one win, but the Chickenhawks grabbed the next three to secure a fourth straight trip to the Japan League Championship Series.

On the other side, Sapporo started the series with back-to-back road shutouts over Kawasaki 3-0 and 2-0. The Killer Whales rallied with their own 4-2 and 4-1 road wins, then dominated 10-2 at home in game five to complete the rally. Kawasaki earned their third JLCS trip in four years. The Killer Whales had upset Hamamatsu as the #2 seed in 2033, but the Chickenhawks returned the favor the next year.

Kawasaki opened the JLCS with a lopsided 8-2 road win, followed by a Hamamatsu 10-2 battering in game two. The Killer Whales then earned 3-2 and 1-0 home wins; the lone run of game four coming on a walkoff solo homer by Toshinori Mizuho. Hamamatsu avoided the upset with a 7-4 road win in game five, sending the series back home.

The Chickenhawks claimed game six 3-1, setting up a dramatic game seven. Hamamatsu tied it at 3-3 after eight innings, then RF Takuboku Fukuoka had the walkoff RBI single in the ninth for a 4-3 victory. The Chickenhawks are the sixth team to three-peat as Japan League champs, joining Sapporo (1949-51), Chiba (1961-63), Hiroshima (1968-70), Kitakyushu (1992-94), and Kawasaki (1999-01).

Ulsan ended up as the Korea League’s top seed at 106-56 atop the Southeast Division. Although it was the Swallows’ fourth playoff berth in five years, it was their first division title since 2015 and first #1 seed since 2014. Defending KL champ Busan dropped off from their 111-win 2035 effort, but still got the first wild card at 96-66. The Blue Jays’ EAB record playoff streak extended to 17 seasons, although their division title streak was stopped at 12.

Both North Division champ Goyang and Southwest Division champ Gwangju finished 98-64. The Green Sox now had a decade-long playoff streak, while the Grays got their fourth in-a-row. Goyang was the KL’s top scoring squad at 797 runs. Incheon allowed the fewest at 585, helping them win a competitive Central Division at 94-68. The Inferno got their third playoff trip in four years.

Two back on the Central was 92-70 Seongnam, who got repeat wild card berths. Falling just short in the wild card race was 91-71 Jeonju, 88-74 Changwon, 88-74 Pyongyang, and 88-74 Suwon. The Snappers had been in the KLCS in five of the prior seven seasons.

Although the Crabs just missed the playoffs, they swept the Korea League’s top awards. In only his third season, CF Won-Bin Lee was unanimous MVP, leading in triples (30), total bases (414), slugging (.703), OPS (1.098), wRC+ (209), and WAR (10.3). Lee added 201 hits, 112 runs, 21 doubles, 44 home runs, 122 RBI, and a .341 average. He was already living up to being the #1 pick in the 2033 EAB Draft.

Wan Ahn was the #1 pick two years prior by Changwon and was also proving himself worthy, taking Pitcher of the Year at age 23. He posted the 21^st pitching Triple Crown in EAB and the first since 2027 with a 2.06 ERA, 23-6 record, and 359 strikeouts. Ahn also led in WHIP (0.82), complete games (17), shutouts (6), FIP- (40), and WAR (11.3) with a 193 ERA+ in 257.2 innings. On July 18, Ahn tossed his first no-hitter with 12 strikeouts against Busan.

Together, Changwon’s great drafting had gotten them from 100+ loss seasons from 2031-33 to a near playoff miss in 2036. However, the Crabs still had an eight-year playoff drought. Also worth a mention, Pyongyang’s Sin-Cheol Park won his third Reliever of the Year in four years. He was now up to 11^th on the EAB saves leaderboard at 377.

Incheon dethroned the defending KL champ Busan 3-1 in the first round while Seongnam survived 3-2 against Gwangju. The Spiders then upset Goyang 3-1 in the divisional round, earning their first Korea League Championship Series trip since their repeat titles in 2018-19.

The Inferno upset top seed Ulsan 4-3 in ten innings for game one, then snagged a 5-0 game two road win. The Swallows avoided the calamity, rallying with 6-4, 4-3, and 5-2 wins to salvage the series. The game four win notably was a ten inning affair. Ulsan’s last KLCS trip was 2027 and their last pennant was 2015, incidentally over Seongnam.

Ulsan opened with a 6-2 win, but Seongnam stole game two on the road 4-3. The Spiders got game three at home 6-5, but Ulsan evened it 6-3 in game four. Seongnam snagged game five 4-2, then clinched in game six with a 4-3 road upset. The Spiders became eight-time Korean champs (1982, 83, 90, 2003, 14, 18, 19, 36).

Hamamatsu was taken to the brink in the JLCS by Kawasaki, but had no such worries in the 116^th East Asian Championship. The Chickenhawks swept Seongnam with 2-0, 2-0, 4-2, and 7-4 wins. Game three was the closest battle, needing 11 innings. RF Yoshiaki Hara was finals MVP going 4-7 with 1 homer and 3 RBI.

The Chickenhawks’ dynasty also was only the third EAB championship three-peat ever, joining Kitakyushu’s 1992-94 run and Pyongyang’s 1965-68 four-peat. With that, Hamamatsu staked their claim for not only EAB’s best-ever team, but the best in world history as a league champ with their 126-36 record. If they posted a strong showing in the Baseball Grand Championship, they could cement that case. Manager Duk-Ku Su became the fifth EAB skipper with three championships.

Other notes: Seongnam’s In-Jun Sun set playoff records for opponent’s OPS (.251) and slugging (.100), minimum 15 innings required. Sun had 16 scoreless innings with 12 Ks, making him the 11^th EAB pitcher with 15+ playoff innings with a zero ERA.

EAB’s 48^th perfect game came on September 10 as Yokohama’s Kimio Suzuki struck out six facing Okayama. Koshi Miyata and Si-Won Joon were the 75^th and 76^th pitchers to 200 wins. Joon was also the 21^st ace to 4000 strikeouts. Jin-Yu Jun and Byung-Cheol Ban were the 51^st and 52^nd to 3500 Ks.

Gwangju’s Dendi Hidayat stole 129 bases, the 3^rd-best single-season in EAB history. Maebashi’s terrible pitching set Japan League single-season worsts for team ERA (4.96), hits (1676), earned runs (792), and H/9 (10.49). The Bunnies’ 867 runs and 1.449 WHIP were both 2^nd-worst.

The 600 home run club grew to 40 members with the additions of Masanori Fukuoka and Toichi Kimura. Fukuoka won his 10^th Silver Slugger in LF and Kimura his 7^th at 1B. The 500 homer club was 85 players strong with the additions of Seung-Heon Ryou, Kazutaka Hirano, and Geon-Ho Whang. Jae-Hyeon Shin and Yosai Ishizuka made it 107 batters with 2500 hits. SS Anh Vu Nguyen won his 10^th Silver Slugger.

SS Jae-Won Park made history with his 17^th consecutive Gold Glove. The only other player in baseball history with 17 was former all-time WARlord Jimmy Caliw, who split his between 2B/SS and between MLB/OBA. For his career, Park had a 1.130 EEF and 435.8 zone rating.

It was possibly his last season though, as he hit a putrid .476 OPS and 39 wRC+ in 2036 with Cheongju. He still managed to be worth 1.7 WAR in 126 even with such horrific batting metrics, but was a free agent for 2037. Park had a career 64.7 WAR despite a .606 OPS and 73 wRC+. His terrible bat may keep him from a Hall of Fame nod, but world WARlord Harvey Coyle might be the only guy you’d put above Park for pure defensive value in baseball history.

10-11-2025, 07:24 PM	#2499
FuzzyRussianHat Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2020 Posts: 3,010	2036 in EAB The two-time defending East Asian Baseball champ Hamamatsu had possibly the best regular season any team has ever had in baseball history. The Chickenhawks finished at 126-36, tying the world record for wins in any world league. SAB’s Ho Chi Minh City did it in 1993 and OBA’s Christchurch in 2016, although neither of those teams ended up winning it all in their leagues. The world record for wins by a champion was 124 by SAB’s Ahmedabad (1995) and Mandalay (2028). The old EAB wins record was 122 by Hamhung in 1926, who was upset in the Korea League final. 1950 Sapporo had the Japan League record of 121 wins; they lost in the EAB Championship. Hamamatsu in 2036 had a +426 run differential, second in world history behind only 2009 Hanoi in SAB at +452. That Hounds team went 122-40 and had a stunning first round exit. The Chickenhawks won their fourth straight Central Division and set JL single-season team records for triple slash (.297/.343/.485), runs (874), and hits (1661). They also had EAB’s fewest runs allowed with 448. Hamamatsu unsurprisingly overshadowed a very impressive 107-55 season by Capital Division champ Kawasaki. It was their fourth straight division title and 100+ win season, as well as their sixth consecutive playoff trip. The Killer Whales’ 3,033,298 season attendance was the second-best in JL history and third in EAB history. The remaining playoff spots had a very complicated soup as five teams finished game #162 with a 94-68 record. Three of them were in the North Division with Sapporo, Niigata, and Sendai; along with the Central’s Kyoto and Capital’s Saitama. To sort out the North, the Green Dragons first defeated the Samurai, but lost to the Swordfish. Sapporo earned back-to-back berths, but it was their first division title since 2027. Next was a pair of one-game playoffs with the winners getting wild cards and the losers eliminated. Niigata and Kyoto got the wins while Sendai and Saitama took the Ls. The Green Dragons earned their eighth playoff trip in a decade while the Kamikaze ended a six-year drought. The Samurai saw a three-year division title streak snapped. Lastly, the West Division had a clear winner with 89-73 Fukuoka as the only team above .500, ending a nine-year playoff drought. Last year’s JLCS runner-up Kitakyushu fell to 76-86. Leading Hamamatsu’s historic charge was unanimous Japan League MVP Mitsuru Ishida. In his fifth season and third as a full-time starter, Ishida led in runs (140), hits (224), home runs (58), RBI (148), total bases (444), OBP (.447), slugging (.746), OPS (1.193), wRC+ (227), and WAR (12.4). He had 40 doubles and a .376 average, one point short of a Triple Crown. The 24-year old Ishida was only the fifth in EAB history with a 140+ run effort. His OPS was also EAB’s seventh-best qualifying season, his OBP was ninth, and his WAR was 11^th among position players. The Chickenhawks had taken him out of high school with the #3 pick in the 2030 draft. The 6’8’’ righty had been the finals MVP in their 2034 championship run. Pitcher of the Year was intense as Kawasaki’s Mitsumasa Suzuki got 19 first place votes and 210 points, edging out Hamamatsu’s Naka Sakurai at 17 and 119. The Chickenhawks’ Masamichi Kasai also had four first place votes and 133 points. It was the third POTY for Suzuki, who won in 2033 for the Killer Whales and in 2031 with Suwon in the Korea League. He had signed with Kawasaki for 2032 on a six-year, $201,300,000 deal. The 30-year old righty led in strikeouts (345), WHIP (0.86), and shutouts (7). Suzuki had a 17-8 record, 1.95 ERA, 244.2 innings, 185 ERA+, and 9.0 WAR. On August 13, he tossed his first no-hitter with 15 Ks and 1 walk against Tokyo. His top POTY competitor Sakurai had a 27-3 record, only the fifth EAB pitcher to win 27+ in a season. Kasai meanwhile had 25 wins and led in WAR at 10.0. Sapporo swept Niigata 3-0 and Fukuoka rallied for a 3-2 win over Kyoto in the wild card round. The Frogs shocked top-seed Hamamatsu with a 3-2 game one win, but the Chickenhawks grabbed the next three to secure a fourth straight trip to the Japan League Championship Series. On the other side, Sapporo started the series with back-to-back road shutouts over Kawasaki 3-0 and 2-0. The Killer Whales rallied with their own 4-2 and 4-1 road wins, then dominated 10-2 at home in game five to complete the rally. Kawasaki earned their third JLCS trip in four years. The Killer Whales had upset Hamamatsu as the #2 seed in 2033, but the Chickenhawks returned the favor the next year. Kawasaki opened the JLCS with a lopsided 8-2 road win, followed by a Hamamatsu 10-2 battering in game two. The Killer Whales then earned 3-2 and 1-0 home wins; the lone run of game four coming on a walkoff solo homer by Toshinori Mizuho. Hamamatsu avoided the upset with a 7-4 road win in game five, sending the series back home. The Chickenhawks claimed game six 3-1, setting up a dramatic game seven. Hamamatsu tied it at 3-3 after eight innings, then RF Takuboku Fukuoka had the walkoff RBI single in the ninth for a 4-3 victory. The Chickenhawks are the sixth team to three-peat as Japan League champs, joining Sapporo (1949-51), Chiba (1961-63), Hiroshima (1968-70), Kitakyushu (1992-94), and Kawasaki (1999-01). Ulsan ended up as the Korea League’s top seed at 106-56 atop the Southeast Division. Although it was the Swallows’ fourth playoff berth in five years, it was their first division title since 2015 and first #1 seed since 2014. Defending KL champ Busan dropped off from their 111-win 2035 effort, but still got the first wild card at 96-66. The Blue Jays’ EAB record playoff streak extended to 17 seasons, although their division title streak was stopped at 12. Both North Division champ Goyang and Southwest Division champ Gwangju finished 98-64. The Green Sox now had a decade-long playoff streak, while the Grays got their fourth in-a-row. Goyang was the KL’s top scoring squad at 797 runs. Incheon allowed the fewest at 585, helping them win a competitive Central Division at 94-68. The Inferno got their third playoff trip in four years. Two back on the Central was 92-70 Seongnam, who got repeat wild card berths. Falling just short in the wild card race was 91-71 Jeonju, 88-74 Changwon, 88-74 Pyongyang, and 88-74 Suwon. The Snappers had been in the KLCS in five of the prior seven seasons. Although the Crabs just missed the playoffs, they swept the Korea League’s top awards. In only his third season, CF Won-Bin Lee was unanimous MVP, leading in triples (30), total bases (414), slugging (.703), OPS (1.098), wRC+ (209), and WAR (10.3). Lee added 201 hits, 112 runs, 21 doubles, 44 home runs, 122 RBI, and a .341 average. He was already living up to being the #1 pick in the 2033 EAB Draft. Wan Ahn was the #1 pick two years prior by Changwon and was also proving himself worthy, taking Pitcher of the Year at age 23. He posted the 21^st pitching Triple Crown in EAB and the first since 2027 with a 2.06 ERA, 23-6 record, and 359 strikeouts. Ahn also led in WHIP (0.82), complete games (17), shutouts (6), FIP- (40), and WAR (11.3) with a 193 ERA+ in 257.2 innings. On July 18, Ahn tossed his first no-hitter with 12 strikeouts against Busan. Together, Changwon’s great drafting had gotten them from 100+ loss seasons from 2031-33 to a near playoff miss in 2036. However, the Crabs still had an eight-year playoff drought. Also worth a mention, Pyongyang’s Sin-Cheol Park won his third Reliever of the Year in four years. He was now up to 11^th on the EAB saves leaderboard at 377. Incheon dethroned the defending KL champ Busan 3-1 in the first round while Seongnam survived 3-2 against Gwangju. The Spiders then upset Goyang 3-1 in the divisional round, earning their first Korea League Championship Series trip since their repeat titles in 2018-19. The Inferno upset top seed Ulsan 4-3 in ten innings for game one, then snagged a 5-0 game two road win. The Swallows avoided the calamity, rallying with 6-4, 4-3, and 5-2 wins to salvage the series. The game four win notably was a ten inning affair. Ulsan’s last KLCS trip was 2027 and their last pennant was 2015, incidentally over Seongnam. Ulsan opened with a 6-2 win, but Seongnam stole game two on the road 4-3. The Spiders got game three at home 6-5, but Ulsan evened it 6-3 in game four. Seongnam snagged game five 4-2, then clinched in game six with a 4-3 road upset. The Spiders became eight-time Korean champs (1982, 83, 90, 2003, 14, 18, 19, 36). Hamamatsu was taken to the brink in the JLCS by Kawasaki, but had no such worries in the 116^th East Asian Championship. The Chickenhawks swept Seongnam with 2-0, 2-0, 4-2, and 7-4 wins. Game three was the closest battle, needing 11 innings. RF Yoshiaki Hara was finals MVP going 4-7 with 1 homer and 3 RBI. The Chickenhawks’ dynasty also was only the third EAB championship three-peat ever, joining Kitakyushu’s 1992-94 run and Pyongyang’s 1965-68 four-peat. With that, Hamamatsu staked their claim for not only EAB’s best-ever team, but the best in world history as a league champ with their 126-36 record. If they posted a strong showing in the Baseball Grand Championship, they could cement that case. Manager Duk-Ku Su became the fifth EAB skipper with three championships. Other notes: Seongnam’s In-Jun Sun set playoff records for opponent’s OPS (.251) and slugging (.100), minimum 15 innings required. Sun had 16 scoreless innings with 12 Ks, making him the 11^th EAB pitcher with 15+ playoff innings with a zero ERA. EAB’s 48^th perfect game came on September 10 as Yokohama’s Kimio Suzuki struck out six facing Okayama. Koshi Miyata and Si-Won Joon were the 75^th and 76^th pitchers to 200 wins. Joon was also the 21^st ace to 4000 strikeouts. Jin-Yu Jun and Byung-Cheol Ban were the 51^st and 52^nd to 3500 Ks. Gwangju’s Dendi Hidayat stole 129 bases, the 3^rd-best single-season in EAB history. Maebashi’s terrible pitching set Japan League single-season worsts for team ERA (4.96), hits (1676), earned runs (792), and H/9 (10.49). The Bunnies’ 867 runs and 1.449 WHIP were both 2^nd-worst. The 600 home run club grew to 40 members with the additions of Masanori Fukuoka and Toichi Kimura. Fukuoka won his 10^th Silver Slugger in LF and Kimura his 7^th at 1B. The 500 homer club was 85 players strong with the additions of Seung-Heon Ryou, Kazutaka Hirano, and Geon-Ho Whang. Jae-Hyeon Shin and Yosai Ishizuka made it 107 batters with 2500 hits. SS Anh Vu Nguyen won his 10^th Silver Slugger. SS Jae-Won Park made history with his 17^th consecutive Gold Glove. The only other player in baseball history with 17 was former all-time WARlord Jimmy Caliw, who split his between 2B/SS and between MLB/OBA. For his career, Park had a 1.130 EEF and 435.8 zone rating. It was possibly his last season though, as he hit a putrid .476 OPS and 39 wRC+ in 2036 with Cheongju. He still managed to be worth 1.7 WAR in 126 even with such horrific batting metrics, but was a free agent for 2037. Park had a career 64.7 WAR despite a .606 OPS and 73 wRC+. His terrible bat may keep him from a Hall of Fame nod, but world WARlord Harvey Coyle might be the only guy you’d put above Park for pure defensive value in baseball history. __________________ Baseball: The World's Game fictional world reports Continental Baseball Federation world reports (8-tier promotion/relegation sim and college feeder)