Japan 2020 Olympic Baseball Qualifying Roster

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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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