Japan 2020 Olympic Baseball Qualifying Roster
Here is Japan's roster for Premier12, a 2020 Olympic qualifier which begins in early November and features 12 of the top baseball nations in the world.
Atsunori Inaba will manage Japan.
The opening round of group stage play begins November 2nd in three locations: Mexico, Taiwan and Korea. The groups are as follows
GROUP A (Mexico)
USA
MEXICO
NETHERLANDS
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
GROUP B (TAIWAN)
Chinese Taipei
Japan
Venezuela
Puerto Rico
GROUP C (KOREA)
Korea
Cuba
Australia
Canada
| NAME | POSITION | MLB ORGANIZATION | |
| Takayuki Kishi | P | ||
| Taisuke Yamaoka | P | ||
| Yuki Matsui | P | ||
| Shun Yamaguchi | P | ||
| Yasuaki Yamazaki | P | ||
| Shota Imanaga | P | ||
| Yudai Ono | P | ||
| Kodai Senga | P | ||
| Rei Takahashi | P | ||
| Yoshinobu Yamamoto | P | ||
| Kohei Morihara | P | ||
| Yuta Nakagawa | P | ||
| Kazuto Taguchi | P | ||
| Seiji Kobayashi | C | ||
| Tsubasa Aizawa | C | ||
| Takuya Kai | C | ||
| Tetsuto Yamada | INF | ||
| Sosuke Genda | INF | ||
| Eitoto Asamura | INF | ||
| Ryosuke Kikuchi | INF | ||
| Shuta Tonosaki | INF | ||
| Hayato Sakamoto | INF | ||
| Nobuhiro Matsuda | INF | ||
| Kensuke Kondo | OF | ||
| Ukyo Shuto | OF | ||
| Masataka Yoshida | OF | ||
| Seiya Suzuki | OF | ||
| Shogo Akiyama | OF |
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