The 2025 Asian Winter Baseball League is set to open on Saturday, Nov. 15, in Taiwan.
This year’s field features five teams: two representatives from the Chinese Professional Baseball League, one from the Korean Baseball Organization, one from Nippon Professional Baseball, and one from the Japan Amateur Baseball Association.
The league showcases top prospects and emerging talent from across Asia. Many players on the NPB roster have yet to make their top team debuts, while the JABA squad features several standout performers from Japan’s highly competitive industrial league circuit. The regular season runs from November 15 to December 5, followed by the championship and third-place games on Sunday, December 7.
In 2024, NPB White captured the title over JABA, with the Taiwan Seas finishing third. For 2025, the two NPB squads have been merged into a single team, while a new KBO representative joins the field. The competition was originally founded in 2012, paused after 2019, and was revived in 2023. An NPB representative has won five of the last six editions.
NPB Roster
Pitchers (Team)
Yu Hirosawa (Yakult Swallows)
Yosefu Yoshimura (Yomiuri Giants)
Shun Antoku (SoftBank Hawks)
Riku Miyaguni (Orix Buffaloes)
Reo Yamaguchi (Orix Buffaloes)
Hidetoshi Ibaragi (Hanshin Tigers)
Kosuke Takahashi (Chunichi Dragons)
Ryusei Gonda (Orix Buffaloes)
Manato Shimizu (DeNA BayStars)
Koki Kanabuchi (DeNA BayStars)
Yamato Fuji (Seibu Lions)
Kenya Inoue (Chunichi Dragons)
Akio Moriyama (Chunichi Dragons)
Catchers
Tatsuya Sakamoto (Yomiuri Giants)
Taijiro Yano (Yakult Swallows)
Kaito Noda (Seibu Lions)
Infielders
Kisara Utsunomiya (Yomiuri Giants)
Yudai Shoji (SoftBank Hawks)
Shunta Mori (Chunichi Dragons)
Taiyo Sato (Seibu Lions)
Taiyo Sano (Hanshin Tigers)
Takumu Aono (Rakuten Eagles)
Po Hsiang Yang (Rakuten Eagles)
Naiki Nakamura (Chunichi Dragons)
Outfielders
Hakuto Aizawa (Yomiuri Giants)
Yusuke Mugitani (Orix Buffaloes)
Ryoma Yamanaka (Orix Buffaloes)
Soshi Yoshino (Rakuten Eagles)
Taiwan Seas Roster
Pitchers
Cheng-Yi Chen
Po-Chieh Wang
Yi-Cheng Pan
Yu-Hung Chen
Hsin-Yin Lee
Yuan-Yu Lin
Hao Cheng
Fu-Hao Zheng
Hong-Liang Wei
Jian-Hong Lin
Li-Hsuan Chiu
Cheng-Hung Lee
Po-Jui Huang
Catchers
Po-Hsuan Wu
Tsai-Cheng Yen
I-Hsien Yu
Infielders
Jie Kao
Yu-Hsuan Yen
Xuan-You Wang
Pei-Wei Lin
Hao-Wei Chang
Nian-Hao Wang
Jia-Hao Tang
Yu-Ching Tseng
Kai-Yu Chen
Outfielders
Wei-Ha Lin
Ting-Yu Lin
Chao-Cheng Cheng
Tzu-Chieh Tien
Sheng-En Gao
Taiwan Mountains Roster
Pitchers
Ying-Jui Chen
Wei-Chun Weng
Yuan-Wei Chen
Hua-Wei Lin
Po-Yu Lee
Jia-Hui Zeng
Chien Yu
Jin-Yu Chang
Po-Chun Chen
Hao Feng
Sheng-Kai Chen
Meng-Yang Lu
Hsin-Jie Lin
Guan-Yu Lu
Jia-Ming Li
Catchers
Wu Chen-Wei Lin
Zan-Wei Huang
Po-Wei Hsu
Infielders
Shr-Lun Chang
Siang-He Yang
Si-Chung Chen (John Peter Clark)
Sheng-Jie Tsai
Jun-Wei Liu
Jen-Wei Chang
Jia-Le Chen
Kuah-Chieh Tsehg
He-Chieh Hsu
Hsun-Chieh Lee
Outfielders
Ting-Lun Hsu
Yu-Cheng Zhung
Pin Shin-Jung Ho
You-Jia Chang
KBO Roster
Pitchers
Jin-Ha Lee
Jin-Uk Kim
Yong-Jun Lee
Heon-Min Shin
Se-Jin Park
Gyeong-Mo Yang
Byung-Jun Lee
Woo-Joon Jeong
Yeong-Hyun Kim
Jun-Woo Park
Seh-Yun Park
Sun-Woo Jung
Chang-Hoon Kim
Sang-Ho Seok
Catchers
Yong-Seok Shin
Jun-Ho Yun
Kun-Woo Park
Infielders
Doo-Hyun Kim
Ho-Jin Kim
Eun-Won Jung
Hyun-In Ryu
Seung-Won Lee
Dong-Hui Han
Eui-San Jeon
Outfielders
Hang-Yeol Park
Chan-Hyeok Park
Hyun-Joon Kim
Jae-Won Lee
Jun-Young Jeong
Seung-Min Ryu
JABA Roster
Pitchers
Ryosuke Akiyama
Shinma Kawai
Junki Namai
Yoshiki Ito
Hiroto Takagi
Shiki Kawanara
Shinya Nakajima
Taiga Nakaoka
Shin Higuchi
Seiya Kakimoto
Yuki Honma
Kentaro Umeda
Kento Nagano
Catchers
Yoshiaki Hagihara
Ryo Arima
Syota Matsuyama
Taichi Inde
Aoi Kotaka
Infielders
Kenta Yamada
Fuga Ishikawa
Yoshino Minohara
Akito Motoyama
Yuta Kaizaki
Shinnosuke Nakamata
Kanta Aiba
Yusuke Shimoyama
Yuki Toyama
Outfielders
Renya Omori
Takumi Nomura
Tomohiro Ishitobi
Hiroyuki Namikawa
Masato Shibasaki
Ryokusuke Fujisawa
