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2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season

2016 NPB season
League Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport Baseball
Duration March 25, 2016 – September 28, 2016
Central League Pennant
League champions Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Pacific League Pennant
League champions Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
Climax Series
CL champions Hiroshima Toyo Carp
  CL runners-up Yokohama DeNA BayStars
PL champions Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
  PL runners-up Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
Japan Series
Champions Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
  Runners-up Hiroshima Toyo Carp
Finals MVP Brandon Laird
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The 2016 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 67th season since the NPB was reorganized in 1950.

A gambling scandal involving members of the Yomiuri Giants was reported in October. Pitchers Satoshi Fukuda, Shoki Kasahara, and Ryuya Matsumoto were found to have bet on both NPB games and Major League Baseball games, as well as high school baseball.

Note: In each league's stepladder playoff system (Climax Series), all games in that series are held at the higher seed's home stadium. The team with the higher regular-season standing also advanced if the round ended in a tie.

Yomiuri Giants (1) vs. Yokohama DeNA BayStars (2)

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2) vs. Chiba Lotte Marines (0)

Hiroshima Toyo Carp (4) vs. Yokohama DeNA BayStars (1)

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (4) vs. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (2)

Hiroshima Toyo Carp (2) vs. Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (4)


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