Every superstar has an origin story nobody was watching. Before Shohei Ohtani was a household name, before Munetaka Murakami was launching home runs in Jingu Stadium, both of them were grinding through games in near-empty stadiums, scored by hand, broadcast to almost nobody. That’s the world underneath Nippon Professional Baseball — Japan’s farm system — … Continue reading NPB Farm Leagues: Japan’s Farm System and the Baseball API Built to Track It