Sentence examples for npb- from inspiring English sources

He has allowed just 47% as many earned runs over the last five years as an average NPB pitcher would have in the same number of innings.

The winner then offers the promised amount to the NPB club.

Royale has not switched away from the nPB glues, managers said, because alternatives did not work well, were sometimes more dangerous and were almost always more expensive.

Other companies were also reluctant to switch from nPB glues.

Officials of the Franklin Corporation, a cushion plant in Houston, Miss., explained in court documents that safety was important but that nPB glues were attractive because they dried so fast that the cushions could be produced in a third of the time.

"OSHA is tough," E.P.A. officials said, according to notes from a November 2006 meeting on concerns about nPB.

OSHA has never set a standard establishing safety limits on workers' exposure to nPB.

As the chemical's popularity grew, E.P.A. officials worried about its use in spray glues, especially in cushion-making factories where the agency had determined that even with "state of the art" ventilation, "nPB-based adhesives cannot be reliably used in a manner that protects human health".

Before long, roughly a third of the cushion-making industry had switched to nPB-based glues.

The agency advised the company to stop using nPB-based glues.

Instead Iwakuma suffered through another losing season with his Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the NPB Pacific League before signing with the Mariners for 2012 for peanuts.