Developmental Player System
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The Developmental Player System is a system that allows players to be held for the purpose of training players separately from the 70 registered players under control of each team created in the fall
Pitcher Shō Ishikawa, wearing the distinctive three-digit uniform number unique to players in the Developmental Player System.
Kodai Senga with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
Takuya Kuwahara
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Takuya Kuwahara is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball.
Developmental Player System
…who were removed from the registration of players under control and re-signed as a developmental player as an injury rehabilitation assignment (e.g., Takuya Kuwahara, Hiroya Shimamoto). There is an argument that de-registering players who cannot play due to injury and re-signing them as developmental players will…
Kuwahara with the Yomiuri Giants.