# 2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship

The 2017 Asia Professional Baseball Championship (APBC 2017), sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), was the first edition of APBC, and was held in Japan from November 16 to 19.

## Participating teams

* Chinese Taipei
* Japan
* South Korea

### Rosters

Only players born in 1993 or later, or that have less than three years of professional experience are eligible for the competition. However, teams are also allowed up to three wild cards which do not meet either of these criteria. Korea is the only team to have elected not to use its wild cards.

## Format

Each of the three teams participated in a round-robin series, playing each other team once. The two teams with the best win-loss percentage faced each other in the final, with the team finishing higher considered the "home team", meaning that they had the advantage of batting last.

## Round-robin stage

| Pos | Team | W | L | Pct. | R | RA |
| 1 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 1.000 | 16 | 9 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1 | 1 | .500 | 8 | 8 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | .000 | 2 | 9 |
November 16, 2017, 19:12 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 1 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 0 |
| WP: Mizuki Hori (1–0) LP: Lee Min-ho (0–1) Home runs: KOR: Kim Ha-seong (1) JPN: Hotaka Yamakawa (1), Seiji Uebayashi (1) Attendance: 32,815 Game time: 4 hours 29 minutes Boxscore ||||||||||||||
November 17, 2017, 19:03 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| WP: Im Gi-yeong (1–0) LP: Chen Kuan-yu (0–1) Sv: Jang Pill-joon (1) Attendance: 6,040 Game time: 3 hours 27 minutes Boxscore |||||||||||||
November 18, 2017, 18:41 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 1 |
| Chinese Taipei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| WP: Shota Imanaga (1–0) LP: Lin Cheng-hsien (0–1) Home runs: JPN: Shuta Tonosaki (1) TWN: Chu Yu-hsien (1) Attendance: 35,473 Game time: 4 hours 4 minutes Boxscore |||||||||||||

## Final

November 19, 2017, 18:11 (JST) at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan :
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | X | 7 | 11 | 0 |
| WP: Kazuto Taguchi (1–0) LP: Park Se-woong (0–1) Home runs: KOR: None JPN: Ryoma Nishikawa (1) Attendance: 30,498 Game time: 3 hours 29 minutes Boxscore |||||||||||||

## Final standings

| Rk | Team | W | L | R | RA |
| 1 | Japan | 3 | 0 | 23 | 9 |
| 2 | South Korea | 1 | 2 | 8 | 15 |
| 3 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 |
* APBC 2017
* Japan First title

## Awards

The APBC 2017 organization announced MVP and All APBC 2017 team of Asia Professional Baseball Championship 2017 as follows.
MVP :
| Award | Player |
| MVP | Shuta Tonosaki |
All APBC 2017 team :
| Position | Player |
| P | Kazuto Taguchi |
| C | Han Seung-taek |
| 1B | Chu Yu-hsien |
| 2B | Park Min-woo |
| 3B | Ryoma Nishikawa |
| SS | Kim Ha-seong |
| OF | Shuta Tonosaki |
| OF | Go Matsumoto |
| OF | Wang Po-jung |
| DH | Kensuke Kondoh |