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===Recent history=== | ===Recent history=== | ||
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Current season, competition or edition: 2022 All-Senria Baseball League Season | |
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| Sport | Baseball |
|---|---|
| Founded | June 18, 1936 |
| Commissioner | Souhei Kosoegawa |
| No. of teams | 24 |
| Countries |  Senria |
| Headquarters | tbd street Keisi, Senria |
| Most recent champion(s) | Ukyou Ravens (3rd title) (2021) |
| Most titles | Keisi Dragons (22 titles) |
| TV partner(s) | Senria Broadcast tbd Live streaming tbd International Live streaming tbd |
| Domestic cup(s) | All-Senria Championship Series |
| Related competitions | National League Central League Senrian Women's Baseball League |
| Official website | www |
The All-Senria Baseball League (Senrian: 선썬류우야뀨우런메, Zensenryuu Yakyuu Renmei), or ASBL, is the top-level professional baseball league in Senria. Originally formed in 1936, the league currently consists of twenty-four teams divided into two leagues and four divisions.
Baseball was established in Senria by 1900, with small collegiate leagues emerging in the 1910s and the first efforts to organize professional teams occurring in the 1920s; however, the Senrian Revolution and Great War disrupted the professionalization process, contributing to the ASBL's late founding when compared to the Rizealand Baseball League and Arucian Baseball League. The ASBL was established with eight teams in 1936, with the league's early years defined by barnstorming and a dead-ball tendency caused by rubber rationing. As its popularity grew, the ASBL was expanded from 8 teams to 12 in 1952 and to 16 teams in 1960; to accomodate the larger number of teams, it was subdivided into the Mountain League and Ocean League with its 1952 expansion and into four divisions, two in each league, with the 1960 expansion.
The league experienced its greatest troubles in the 1970s; cheating & match fixing scandals damaged baseball's reputation in Senria, and many teams were revealed to be plagued by financial problems. Stringent punishments for unsportsmanlike behavior and a revenue-sharing arrangement returned stability to the ASBL, which spent the early-to-mid 1980s recovering. Expansion of the league resumed in 1987, followed by a fourth wave in 2006, bringing the ASBL up to its current 24-team roster.
The standard season of an ASBL team consists of 168 games divided into 56 three-game series. The top two teams in each division then proceed to postseason play, with the winners of each league's pennant proceeding to the All-Senria Championship Series, or Senrian Series, a best-of-seven playoff whose winner is declared the league's champion. The Keisi Dragons hold the most ASBL championships with 20 wins across 30 appearances, and - as the Keisi Sparrows - won the first edition of the series in 1936. The reigning champions are the Ukyou Ravens, who won their third championship by defeating the Keisi White Lions. ASBL teams also engage in practice & exhibition games, as well as international play, during the off-season.
The ASBL is Senria's most popular professional sports league, with survey data typically listing it as the favorite sport of 45 to 50% of the country's population and the Senrian Series one of its most-watched sporting events. It is also one of the world's top leagues by average attendance, with an average match attendance of nearly 31,000, and one of the most lucrative professional sports leagues in the world by revenue. The most prominent of Kylaris's professional baseball leagues, the ASBL has adopted a posting system with the RBL and ABL to restrict the flow of their players to the ASBL.
The All-Senria Baseball League also oversees the operations of the leagues within the Senrian Minor League System and the Senrian Women's Baseball League.
Organizational structure
The structure of the All-Senria Baseball League is dictated by the ASBL Charter, originally written in 1936, and its amendments, the most recent of which dates to 2011. The ASBL Charter establishes the league as a legal entity; its two sub-leagues, the Ocean and Mountain Leagues, and their divisions exist entirely within the legal entity of the ASBL and are not separate legal entities in their own rights. Since the 1980s, the designated hitter has existed universally within the ASBL, standardizing rules and regulations across both leagues.
The chief executive officer of the ASBL is styled as the Commissioner, who acts as the ASBL's director, organizer, and chief administrator. The commissioner, currently Souhei Kosoegawa, is assisted by an Office of the Commissioner and by the first deputy commissioner, currently Hiroyosi Hakeyama. The commissioner and first deputy commissioner, in turn, jointly oversee the Commission of the ASBL, which consists of the second deputy commissioner (who manages the Senrian Women's Baseball League), chief operations officer (who oversees a variety of administrative matters), chief strategy officer (who formulates and implements the league's strategic objectives), chief revenue officer (who manages ASBL finances), chief marketing officer (who oversees brand management and advertising for the league), chief legal officer (who advises the ASBL on legal matters), chief communications officer (who handles public affairs and the ASBL's relation with international baseball authorities and foreign baseball leagues), chief scouting & development officer (who manages Senrian Minor League Baseball and oversees the ASBL's relations with the national baseball team and Senria's independent high school, college, & amateur baseball leagues), and one to three "general senior advisors". All positions other than that of commissioner are nominated by the commissioner and approved by the commission; the commissioner is elected by the combined vote of the commission and team owners.
Under the commission are the various administrative structures that handle hiring umpires, negotiating labor & broadcasting contracts, handling marketing & promotion, and other routine or necessary league affairs. The ASBL does have a multimedia branch under its communications division, the ASBL Media Office Organization, which operates the websites of the ASBL, SWBL, SMLBS, and their teams, as well as certain radio broadcasting services; however, the ASBL lacks the unique control over media contracts held by the Rizealand Baseball League. Nonetheless, close business ties between the ASBL and Senrian broadcast media companies have usually guaranteed it favorable deals for television & radio broadcasting.
Unlike the Arucian Baseball League, the league's player union - the Association of Senrian Professional Baseball Players, founded in 1962 - is not formally integrated into the structure of the ASBL; nonetheless, as it contains a majority of the ASBL's players, coaches, and training staff, it is necessary for the ASBL to regularly consult or negotiate with it in both informal and formal capacities.
History
Origins
[arrival of baseball in senria and its establishment as widespread and popular by 1900]
[collegiate leagues begin appearing in the 1910s, but then the senrian revolution disrupts things]
[efforts to establish professional teams and barnstorm in the asterias appear in the 1920s, but then the great war disrupts things]
Establishment and early years
[30s - initial eight are the reds/foxes, sparrows/dragons, white lions, falcons/giants, tigers, stars, steelworkers, whales, only the senrian series w/ top two teams for the post-season; gov't-supported as a sign of a "return to normalcy" after years of war, a lot of intranational barnstorming as bread-and-circuses for the weary senrian masses]
[40s - things settle down]
Initial expansion
['52 expansion - blues/bears, mariners, unions/eagles, oxen; ASBL divided into ocean & mountain, with implementation of interleague play to try and keep lucrative rivalry matchups intact even as rivals are put in different leagues, postseason changed to top teams from each league going to the series]
['60 expansion - pheasants, stags, clippers/seagulls, ravens; leagues divided into divisions, designated hitter rule implemented in the ocean league, postseason now sees series between top division teams to determine which team from each league heads to the series]
The "Troubled 1970s"
[1970s - a match-fixing scandal in '72 shakes fan faith; turns out a lot of teams are actually not doing great financially; and the mariners and whales fold, forcing the promotion of minor league teams koriyama and toyotori to keep the roster full; the tukayama oxen move to isikawa to invent a lucrative cross-town rivalry with the foxes, which kills the nisiyama giants financially, which forces the promotion of minor league team sekiguti; the stars abandon ubeyama in the hopes of capturing the abandoned nisiyama & tukayama markets]
[to stop any further bullshit in this regard, the league finally implements revenue sharing in 1979]
Return to growth
[80s mostly recovering from the 70s, bar the designated hitter rule being implemented league-wide; expansion only resumed in '87 with the stallions, sea lions, timberwolves, and tanuki]
[90s are keeping it steady for the ASBL, though the minor league system is reworked to its current format during this period, giving each ASBL team one minor league team at each minor league level]
Recent history
[2006 expansion - phoenixes, warriors, otters, hares]
[2010s and 2020s - schedule tweaked, for the postseason the top two teams in each division now play each other to see who goes to the league championship]
Teams
| Defunct teams | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | City | Stadium | Founded | Joined | Ceased operations | Notes | ||
| Nobeoka Mariners | Nobeoka | Yatigasira Park | 1952 | 1952 | 1974 | Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Nobeoka Otters as the de facto successors to the Mariners. | ||
| Yosida Whales | Yosida | Kanagawa Stadium | 1936 | 1936 | 1974 | Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Kasaoka Sea Lions as the de facto successors to the Whales. | ||
| Nisiyama Giants | Nisiyama | Kairakuen Stadium | 1926 | 1936 | 1977 | Folded due to financial insolvency. The ASBL regards the Nisiyama Stars as the de facto successors to the Giants. | ||
Timeline
Rules
Expatriate players
ASBL players abroad
Season structure
| Senrian Series records | ||||
| Team | Number of Series won |
Last Series won |
Series played |
Last Series played |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keisi Dragons (OL) † | 20 | 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Keisi White Lions (ML) | 15 | 2009 | 26 | 2021 |
| Tosei Tigers (ML) | 12 | 2008 | 24 | 2022 |
| Isikawa Foxes (OL) † | 7 | 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Tosei Eagles (OL) | 5 | 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| ‡ Nisiyama Giants (ML) † | 3 | 1969 | 5 | 1969 |
| Ukyou Ravens (OL) | 3 | 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Koriyama Vipers (OL) † | 3 | 2006 | 4 | 2006 |
| Nakamura Bears (ML to OL, 1979) † | 2 | 1964 | 8 | 2016 |
| Isikawa Oxen (ML) † | 2 | 1980 | 5 | 2019 |
| Ubeyama Tanuki (OL) | 2 | 2014 | 3 | 2014 |
| Nobeoka Otters (ML) * | 2 | 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| Nisiyama Stars (OL to ML, 1979; ML to OL, 1987) †* |
1 | 1956 | 5 | 1990 |
| ‡ Yosida Whales (OL) | 1 | 1945 | 4 | 1970 |
| Katuyama Stags (ML) | 1 | 2004 | 3 | 2017 |
| Toyotori Cranes (ML) | 1 | 2010 | 3 | 2010 |
| Ueda Steelworkers (OL) | 1 | 1978 | 3 | 1997 |
| Hisakawa Stallions (ML) † | 1 | 2001 | 2 | 2006 |
| Kasaoka Sea Lions (ML to OL, 2006) * | 1 | 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Keisi Timberwolves (ML to OL, 2006) | 1 | 2005 | 2 | 2012 |
| ‡ Nobeoka Mariners (ML) | 1 | 1963 | 2 | 1970 |
| Sakata Seagulls (OL) | 1 | 1998 | 2 | 2008 |
| Sekiguti Robins (ML) | 1 | 2016 | 1 | 2016 |
| Hukuyama Pheasants (ML) | 0 | 1 | 2013 | |
| Itimura Phoenixes (ML) | 0 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Yokomatu Hares (ML) | 0 | 1 | 2018 | |
| Keisi Warriors (ML) | 0 | 0 | ||
| OL=Ocean League ML=Mountain League | ||||
| † Totals include a team's record in a previous city or under another name (see team article for details). | ||||
| * Totals do not include the record of a defunct team regarded as a team's de facto predecessor by the ASBL (see team article for details). | ||||
| ‡ Team is now defunct. | ||||
Regular season
[team schedules organized into smaller 3-game series, generally grouped into homestands (2 or 3 series where the team plays at home) and awaystands (2 or 3 series where the team plays away); each team plays 15 games total - or 5 series - against every other team in its division, 9 games - or 3 series - against every other team in the same league but not the same division, 3 games - or 1 series - against every other team in the other league, and an additional 3 games - or 1 series - against each team's "natural rival" in the other league, for a 168 game standard season; probably implemented in the 2010s as a refinement of a system implemented with the 2006 expansion which itself is based ultimately on the systems implemented in the 50s and 60s expansions]
[the season typically begins in late september or early october (as senria is southern hemisphere) and ends in late march or early april, with doubleheaders used - if sparingly compared to the arucian and rizealander leagues - to account for holidays and the possibility of rainouts; most weeks a senrian team will play every day but monday]
Postseason
[post-season held in late april or early may; the two best teams from each division play each other in a five-game series to determine who wins each division, then the winners from each division play each other in another five-game series to see who wins the league pennant]
[then the winning teams from each league play each other in the seven-game all-senria championship series to determine who is champion; some prattling on about the series here since the "championship" section is just the table of champions, things like which teams and leagues are the winningest (37 ocean, 34 mountain) and how they try to handle home field advantage]
Off-season
[off-season stuff - resting, touring, training - specifics tbd later]