In response to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, professional baseball has decided to continue this season with special cases such as expanding the registration limit for participating players and discontinuing 10 extra times, which was established last season.

This was decided by the executive committee of professional baseball held online on the 19th.



In the special case, in order to reduce the burden on the players as in the last season,


▼ Extension will be terminated after 10 times,


▼ Registration of participating players

will be increased

from the usual 29 to 31 and


▼ Foreign players who can be registered for participation will be 4 to 5 In addition, the


number of players who can enter the bench will be increased from 25 to 26 respectively.



On the other hand, if you used a special case last season to make foreign players "4 pitchers and 1 fielder" or "1 pitcher and 4 fielders", as long as the team registers 5 players, this combination will be used. He said he couldn't change it, but this season the limit has been removed.



However, it means that not all four or five can be pitchers or fielders.



And even if the player registration is canceled due to suspected infection with the new coronavirus, if it becomes possible to return, the special case where you can re-register without waiting for the usual 10 days will continue.



It was said that if a player registered as a replacement player last season is subsequently unregistered, he / she can re-register without waiting for 10 days only to replace it with another replacement player, but with which player this season It is now possible to replace the items without waiting for 10 days.



In addition, as the number of games decreased to 120 last season, the conditions for winning the title with the highest win rate of pitchers were changed to 10 or more, but this season we plan to play 143 games as usual. Therefore, I returned to the same 13 wins or more as before.