Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Fighters 1 Kota Yazawa P Nittai Univ L/L 08/02/2000 173/70 2 Shoma Kanemura P Fuji Univ R/R 08/29/2000 175/73 3 Gosuke Katoh OF New York Mets R/L 10/08/1994 185/89 4 Kanato Anzai P Tokoha Kikugawa HS R/R 11/13/2004 186/84 5 Taiki Narama IF Rissho Univ R/R 05/08/2000 172/72 6 Haruki Miyauchi P Nihon Seishi Ishinomaki R/R 05/25/1996 176/75 i1 Taisei Fuijta OF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/L 08/23/2004 187/84 i2 Terukazu Nakayama P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 02/08/1999 188/90 i3 Ataru "AJ" Yamaguchi OF Univ of Texas Tyler R/R 05/28/1999 179/89 i4 Kodai Yamamoto P Shinano Grandserows L/L 04/23/1999 186/88 Dragons 1 Reia Nakachi P Okinawa Univ R/R 02/15/2001 177/80 2 Kaito Muramatsu IF Meiji Univ R/L 01/06/2001 171/80 3 Akio Moriyama P Anan Hikari HS L/L 01/11/2005 182/83 4 Ryunosuke Yamaasa C Seiko Gakuen HS R/L 04/21/2004 175/82 5 Shonosuke Hama IF BCL Fukui R/L 05/03/2000 181/81 6 Mikiya Tanaka IF Asia Univ R/R 11/28/2000 166/64 7 Hiroki Fukunaga IF Nippon Shinyaku R/R 09/16/1996 180/74 i1 Shinya Matsuyama P Hachinohe Gakuin Univ R/R 06/23/2000 188/92 i2 Tento Nonaka P Meioh HS L/L 02/05/2005 180/83 i3 Seishu Higuchi IF BCL Musashi Heat Bears R/L 11/17/1998 177/75 Marines (ikusei)x Kosei Shoji1 Riku Kikuchi P Senshu Univ R/L 06/13/2000 183/88 2 Atsuki Tomosugi IF Tenri Univ R/R 11/07/2000 171/68 3 Haruya Tanaka P Nihon Bunri HS R/L 06/06/2004 185/82 4 Shuta Takano P Nippon Express L/L 08/13/1998 183/76 5 Yuta Kaneda IF Urawa Gakuin HS R/L 02/12/2005 181/80 i1 Yuto Yoshikawa P Urawa Reimei HS L/L 03/14/2005 185/82 i2 Kaiki Shirahama P Iizuka HS R/R 07/05/2004 192/87 i3 Rui Katsumata IF Fujinomiya East HS R/R 10/07/2004 188/78 i4 Kaisei Kurokawa IF Gakuhou Ishikawa HS R/R 04/05/2004 178/75 Carp 1 Yuta Saitoh P Tomakomai Chuo HS R/L 05/27/2004 189/90 2 Shodai Uchida IF Tone Shogyo HS R/R 09/22/2004 183/85 3 Takehisa Masuda P Tokyo Gas R/R 10/06/1998 175/86 4 Kanato Shimizu C Kendai Takasaki HS R/L 07/06/2004 175/80 5 Kei Kawano P Osaka Gas R/R 08/23/2001 176/80 6 Ginji Hasebe P Toyota L/L 07/29/1998 184/80 7 Shu Kubo OF Osaka Kanko Univ R/R 09/29/2000 180/80 i1 Norihiko Nabara OF Aomori Univ R/R 06/24/2000 182/82 i2 Takahiro Nakamura OF Kyushu Sangyo Univ R/L 04/09/2000 177/85 i3 Taiga Tsuji P Nishogakusha HS L/L 08/29/2004 182/79 Eagles 1 Kosei Shoji P Rikkio Univ R/R 10/13/2000 188/90 2 Ryuji Komago P Saginomiya Seisakusho R/R 09/15/1997 179/85 3 Shota Watanabe P Kyushu Sangyo Univ R/R 10/29/2000 181/79 4 Mao Itoh P Nodai Hokkaido Okhotsk R/L 11/19/2000 180/80 5 Ryuya Taira OF NTT West Japan R/R 07/09/1998 170/76 6 Yuki Hayashi P Seino Transportation L/L 10/29/2001 174/61 i1 Konosuke Tatsumi IF Seinan Gakuin Univ R/R 11/24/2000 177/69 i2 Kosei Koga P Shimonoseki Kokusai HS L/L 09/03/2004 181/83 i3 Akihiro Takeshita P Hakodate Univ R/R 05/20/2000 185/75 i4 Sotaro Nagata IF Taiwan Nat'l Sport Univ R/L 10/11/2000 178/74 Giants (ikusei) 1 Shogo Asano OF Takamatsu Shogyo HS R/R 11/24/2004 180/83 2 Masaya Hagio OF Keio Univ R/R 12/28/2000 180/84 3 Chiharu Tanaka P Kokugakuin Univ R/R 09/21/2000 189/85 4 Makoto Kadowaki IF Soka Univ R/L 01/24/2001 171/73 5 Hiromasa Funabasama P Seino Transportation R/L 10/16/1996 174/72 i1 Hayate Matsui P Meisei Univ R/R 09/14/2000 178/83 i2 Tomoki Tamura P Sakata Minami HS R/R 04/06/2004 184/80 i3 Yusef Yoshimura P Meitoku Gijiku HS L/L 12/08/2004 182/75 i4 Ayumu Nakata IF Tooh Gijuku HS R/R 06/27/2004 172/76 i5 Hakuto Aizawa IF Toin Gakuen HS R/R 05/28/2004 178/82 i6 Rui Mitsuka OF Kiryu Daiichi HS L/L 05/10/2004 182/92 i7 Gen Ohshiro OF Mirai HS Okinawa R/R 07/12/2004 180/78 i8 Rio Kitamura P Kiryu Daiichi HS R/R 02/20/2005 174/77 i9 Tessei Morimoto P Shiritsu Funabashi HS L/L 09/03/2004 175/73 Lions 1 Takuya Hiruma OF Waseda Univ L/L 09/08/2000 176/87 2 Yuta Furukawa OF Saiki Kakujo HS R/R 05/25/2004 186/91 3 Kaito Noda C Kyushu Kokusaidai HS R/R 03/18/2005 173/74 4 Minato Aoyama P Asia Univ R/R 07/19/2000 182/84 5 Haruto Yamada P Ohmi HS R/R 06/09/2004 174/75 6 Ryosuke Kodama IF Osaka Gas R/R 07/10/1998 166/64 i1 Kazuki Nomura IF Ishikawa Million Stars R/R 06/07/2003 183/93 i2 Montell Higuma OF Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 03/18/2000 186/86 i3 Daiki Miura P Chukyo Univ R/L 04/07/2000 180/92 i4 Ryosuke Koresawa C Hosei Univ R/R 04/19/2000 178/79 Tigersx Shogo Asano1 Shota Morishita OF Chuo Univ R/R 08/14/2000 182/88 2 Keito Monbetsu P Tokaidai Sapporo HS L/L 07/10/2004 182/82 3 Hinase Itsubo OF Kanto Daiichi HS R/R 03/17/2005 177/86 4 Hidetoshi Ibaragi P Teikyo Nagaoka HS R/R 06/08/2004 182/83 5 Reiji Toi IF Tenri HS R/R 01/18/2005 180/85 6 Ren Tomita P Mitsubishi Okazaki L/L 09/06/2001 175/72 i1 Kyosuke Noguchi OF Kyushu Sangyo Univ R/R 07/17/2000 180/88 Hawks 1 Itua Ikhine IF Homare HS R/L 09/02/2004 184/83 2 Ryosuke Ohtsu P Nippon Steel Kashima R/L 01/13/1999 176/68 3 Ikumi Kai OF Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/L 07/11/2000 182/85 4 Kazuo Ohno P Ohshima HS L/L 08/06/2004 174/63 5 Haru Matsumoto P Asia Univ L/L 02/24/2001 180/78 6 Kengo Yoshida C Toin Yokohama Univ R/R 01/18/2001 180/92 i1 Ren Akaba P Kasumigaura HS R/R 04/09/2004 187/80 i2 Kyogo Yamashita IF Fukuoka Univ Ohhori HS R/R 07/07/2004 175/73 i3 Hikaru Kimura P Bukkyo Univ R/L 07/02/2000 173/72 i4 Kaito Uchino P Takeda HS R/R 07/28/2004 186/94 i5 Junpei Okaue P Shikama Kogyo HS R/R 07/10/2004 178/70 i6 Akito Sasaki P Gakuho Fukushima HS R/R 01/02/2005 184/79 i7 Sota Minakuchi P Tohto Univ R/R 08/09/1999 194/104 i8 Hayato Miyazaki P Tokyo Nodai Univ L/L 06/14/2000 180/85 i9 Kaito Shigematsu OF Asia Univ R/R 04/12/2000 186/92 i10 Jun Maeda P Nihon Bunri Univ L/L 06/04/2000 187/93 i11 Kota Satoh IF Hachinohe Kosei HS R/R 04/07/2004 183/75 i12 Yusei Tobita IF Yokohama Kanazawa HS R/L 03/13/2005 184/82 i13 Ayuma Nishio IF Chukyo Gakuin Univ R/L 06/20/2000 168/68 i14 Ryota Morishima C Konan HS R/R 05/27/2004 186/90 Baystars 1 Shion Matsuo C Osaka Toin HS R/R 07/06/2004 178/75 2 Teruki Yoshino P Toyota R/R 07/19/1998 176/78 3 Takuma Hayashi IF Komazawa Univ R/L 08/24/2000 172/74 4 Ryudai Morishita P Kyoto Kokusai HS L/L 09/19/2004 178/73 5 Tatsuya Hashimoto P Keio Univ R/R 07/18/2000 182/86 i1 Ryota Joko C Ehime Mandarin Pirates R/L 01/29/2001 184/90 i2 Ren Suzuki IF Shiga Gakuen HS R/R 07/18/2004 183/86 i3 Ryuto Konno P Toritsu Shiojiri HS R/R 07/13/2004 182/86 i4 Aki Watanabe P Ibaraki Astro Planets R/R 01/29/2000 188/105 i5 Haruto Kusano P East Japan Shohei HS R/R 06/07/2004 175/87 Buffaloes 1 Ryuhei Sotani P Hakuoh Univ L/L 11/30/2000 183/79 2 Hoh Naitoh IF JAL Ishikawa HS R/R 10/05/2004 180/100 3 Kyosuke Saitoh P Morioka Chuo HS R/R 11/18/2004 177/70 4 Ryu Sugisawa OF Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/L 06/02/2000 175/80 5 Atsumi Hidaka P Tomishima HS R/R 09/06/2004 183/76 i1 Yusei Nishihama P Gunma Diamond Pegasus R/L 11/23/2002 181/87 i2 Kaito Saiki P Osaka Economics Univ R/R 06/10/2000 181/86 i3 Kaito Iriyama P Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/R 05/26/2000 178/78 i4 Tokumasa Chano OF Tokushima Indigo Socks R/L 08/04/1999 175/80 i5 Kyoichiro Murakami C Hosei Univ R/R 12/01/2000 168/82 Swallows 1 Kojiro Yoshimura P Toshiba R/R 01/19/1998 183/85 2 Ruito Nishimura OF Kyoto Gaidai HS R/L 07/01/2004 178/75 3 Ren Sawai OF Chukyo Univ L/L 05/31/2000 180/100 4 Takumi Sakamoto P Hokkaido Shiriuchi HS L/L 07/06/2004 180/85 5 Keigo Kitamura IF Chuo Univ R/R 12/18/2000 182/87 i1 Seiya Hashimoto C Chuo Gakuin Univ R/L 09/18/2000 178/85
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
NPB Draft 2022 post
Sunday, October 10, 2021
NPB Draft 2021 blog post
Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Baystars 1 Kenta Kozono P Shiritsu Wakayama HS R/R 04/09/2003 185/90 2 Soma Tokuyama P Waseda University R/R 06/06/1999 183/83 3 Ryunosuke Aibara IF Tokyo Gakkan HS R/L 02/22/2004 180/85 4 Ginji Miura P Hosei University R/R 12/30/1999 175/80 5 Osuke Fukazawa P Senshudai Matsudo HS R/R 11/05/2003 177/74 6 Koki Kajiwara OF Kanagawa University R/L 09/19/1999 189/85 i1 Nagi Murakawa OF Tokushima Indigo Socks R/L 06/26/1998 174/63 i2 Naoya Higashide C Komatsu Ohtani HS R/R 05/24/2003 173/72 i3 Takeru Ohashi OF Ibaraki Astro Planets L/L 05/16/2001 178/74 Fighters 1 Kota Tatsu P Tenri HS R/R 03/27/2004 194/88 2 Naoki Arizono IF Chiba Gakugei HS R/R 05/21/2003 185/97 3 Tatsuki Mizuno IF JR Shikoku R/L 07/30/2000 171/75 4 Uta Sakaguchi IF Gifu Daiichi HS R/L 06/24/2003 187/90 5 Kyosuke Kuroyanagi P Chukyodai Chukyo HS R/R 05/03/2003 180/85 6 Takehiro Hasegawa P Kanazawa Gakuin Univ L/L 08/09/1999 178/81 7 Keito Matsuura P Osaka Toin HS L/L 07/01/2003 186/95 8 Koki Kitayama P Kyoto Sangyo Univ R/R 04/10/1999 182/80 9 Daigo Kamikawabata IF NTT East R/L 01/12/1997 167/71 i1 Ren Fukushima P Hachinohe West HS R/R 04/25/2003 190/70 i2 Takanari Hayamizu C Gunma Diamond Pegasus R/R 07/28/1997 188/100 i3 Taisei Yanagawa P Kyushu Kokusaidai HS R/R 08/21/2003 191/83 i4 Kazuhiro Abe OF Hiratsuka Gakuen HS R/S 05/12/2003 170/65 Dragons 1 Kenta Bright OF Jobu University R/R 05/07/1999 184/84 2 Kosuke Ukai OF Komazawa University R/R 05/30/1999 182/100 3 Taisei Ishimori P Hinokuni Salamanders L/L 12/03/1997 178/78 4 Taisei Miya C Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/L 06/14/2003 180/84 5 Mao Hoshino IF Toyohashi Chuo HS R/R 12/01/2003 176/77 6 Yuma Fukumoto OF Osaka Sangyo Univ R/R 12/01/1999 180/90 Lions 1 Chihiro Sumida P Nishinippon IT Univ L/L 08/20/1999 177/76 2 Shunsuke Satoh P Tsukuba University L/L 01/03/2000 182/83 3 Yuto Koga C Chuo University R/R 09/10/1999 174/85 4 Shinnosuke Hada P Hachioji Gakuen HS L/L 12/25/2003 191/85 5 Masaya Kuroda P Hachinohe IT #1 HS R/R 01/24/2004 188/78 6 Seigo Nakayama IF Hakuoh University R/L 05/09/1999 190/99 i1 Takeru Furuichi C Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 06/15/2000 178/70 i2 Natsuo Takizawa IF Sekine Gakuen HS R/L 08/13/2003 167/64 i3 Shinya Sugai P Yamamoto Gakuen HS L/L 06/28/2003 182/75 i4 Keishin Kawamura OF Kokugakuin University R/L 09/06/1999 173/83 note: Sumida is from the Nishinippon Institute of Technology and I couldn't make that fit. Hada is from Hachioji Gakuen Hachioji HS, and I'm not familiar enough with it to know if the branch actually matters. Kuroda is from the Hachinohe Institute of Technolgoy First HS (daiichi). CarpFirst round lottery:x Chihiro Sumida P Nishinippon IT Univ L/L 08/20/1999 177/76 x Hikaru Yamashita P Hosei University L/L 09/12/1999 188/951 Takumi Kurohara P Kansai Gakuin Univ L/L 11/29/1999 173/77 2 Shohei Mori P Mitsubishi Juko West L/L 01/01/1998 177/80 3 Kento Nakamura OF Toyota R/R 05/21/1997 183/90 4 Shunsuke Tamura IF Aikodai Meiden HS L/L 08/25/2003 178/90 5 Ryuya Matsumoto P Honda Suzuka R/R 09/18/1999 178/87 6 Shota Suekane OF Osaka Gas R/R 05/27/1996 188/110 7 Shuto Takagi C Ken Gifu Shogyo HS R/R 08/12/2003 188/90 i1 Sou Shinya P Tanabe HS L/L 08/14/2003 182/80 i2 Seita Maekawa IF Tsuruga Kehi HS R/R 04/04/2003 176/68 i3 Raisei Nakamura P Takaoka Daiichi HS R/L 05/06/2003 190/76 i4 Rei Sakata P Chubu Gakuin Univ R/R 09/13/1999 188/90 Hawks 1 Kyuta Kazama P Meioh HS R/L 10/11/2003 182/79 2 Tomoya Masaki OF Keio University R/R 11/05/1999 182/87 3 Taisei Kimura P Hokkai HS L/L 09/12/2003 180/76 4 Isami Nomura IF NTT West R/R 12/01/1996 175/80 5 Fuga Ohtake P Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/L 08/22/1999 185/83 i1 Keio Fujino IF Tobata HS R/R 08/23/2003 i2 Yuto Kawamura OF Sendai University R/L 08/13/1999 i3 Sanshiro Izaki P Fukuoka HS R/R 02/09/2004 i4 Mizuki Miura P Tohoku Fukushi Univ L/R 09/02/1999 i5 Reiri Hammond Tanaka P Teikyo Fifth HS R/R 01/17/2004 i6 Koki Katoh P Takikawa Second HS L/L 07/21/2003 i7 Takuma Yamasaki P Iwami Chisuikan HS R/L 11/06/2003 i8 Takuto Sakuma C Tamura HS R/R 07/17/2003 i9 Keita Yamamoto OF Meisei HS R/L 08/06/1999 i10 Sora Katoh C Tomeikan Gakuen HS R/L 04/28/2003 i11 Masaki Takimoto P Shiritsu Matsudo HS R/R 07/29/2003 i12 Yoshiki Mishiro IF Oita Sangyo HS R/R 03/29/2004 i13 Takuma Satoh P Niigata Health Univ L/L 03/18/2000 i14 Keisuke Nakata OF Fukuoka University R/S 07/25/1999 Giantsx Chihiro Sumida P Nishinippon IT Univ L/L 08/20/1999 177/761 Taisei Ohta P Kansai Kokusai Univ R/R 06/29/1999 181/88 2 Ryusei Yamada P JR East L/L 09/07/2000 183/82 3 Yuji Akahoshi P Nihon University R/R 07/02/1999 175/78 4 Hayato Ishida P Tokaidai Sagami HS L/L 04/05/2003 183/78 5 Yuki Okada OF Hosei University R/L 01/19/2000 183/85 6 Yamato Shiroki P Meitoku Gijuku HS L/L 09/08/2003 184/83 7 Yuki Hanada P Hiroshima Shinjo HS R/L 06/25/2003 180/72 i1 Yamato Suzuki OF Hokkai Gakuen Univ R/R 04/27/1999 173/73 i2 Ryusei Takata P Ishikawa Million Stars R/R 08/19/2002 175/75 i3 Keita Kameda C Tokai University R/R 04/09/1999 183/94 i4 Misaki Sasahara OF Ueda Nishi HS R/R 02/09/2004 180/76 i5 Eiji Kamouchi P Soseikan HS L/L 02/29/2004 195/88 i6 Taiki Kikuchi P Toin Yokohama Univ R/L 06/02/1999 186/91 i7 Makoto Kyomoto P Meiho HS R/R 02/06/2004 189/80 i8 Ryu Tomida P Shikoku Gakuin Univ L/L 11/11/1999 179/78 i9 Haruto Kawasaki P Homare HS R/R 11/01/2003 177/80 i10 Ryoya Ohtsu C Hokkai HS R/R 05/28/2003 174/70 Eagles 1 Soshi Yoshino OF Shohei HS R/R 10/27/2003 185/78 2 Yuma Yasuda C Aichi University R/L 03/03/2000 185/105 3 Ginji Maeda OF Mishima Minami HS R/R 11/19/2003 182/98 4 Katsutoshi Tai P Kamimura Gakuen HS L/R 11/11/2003 172/83 5 Tomotaka Matsui P Kanazawa Gakuin Univ R/R 10/11/1999 190/86 6 Masaya Nishigaki P Waseda University R/L 06/21/1999 184/87 7 Kazuki Yoshikawa P JFE West R/R 12/12/1996 167/81 i1 Satoshi Miyamori P Kochi Fighting Dogs R/R 05/28/1998 193/93 i2 Ohzora Yanagisawa OF Nichidai Fujisawa HS R/R 05/31/2003 182/79 i3 Sho Ohkawara OF Tokaidai Yamagata HS R/R 08/17/2003 183/95 Tigersx Kenta Kozono P Shiritsu Wakayama HS R/R 04/09/2003 185/901 Daichi Moriki P Kochi HS R/R 04/17/2003 184/90 2 Yuto Suzuki P Soka University L/L 03/17/2000 174/83 3 Takuma Kirishiki P Niigata Health Univ L/L 06/20/1999 178/90 4 Ukyo Maegawa OF Chiben Gakuen HS L/L 05/18/2003 176/88 5 Hidetaka Okadome P Asia University R/R 11/07/1999 180/87 6 Hiroshi Toyoda OF Hitachi R/R 04/28/1997 177/85 7 Hayato Nakagawa C Kyoto Kokusai HS R/R 01/27/2004 172/72 i1 Ryo Itoh P Chukyo University L/L 11/08/1999 178/86 Marines 1 Koh Matsukawa C Shiritsu Wakayama HS R/R 10/20/2003 178/98 2 Raito Ikeda IF Kokushikan Univ R/R 12/11/1999 180/95 3 Atsuya Hirohata P Kurashiki Oceans R/R 12/03/1997 175/83 4 Seiun Akiyama P Nishogakusha HS L/L 04/29/2003 174/77 5 Akira Yagi P Mitsubishi Juko West R/R 05/26/1997 180/94 i1 Fuki Tanaka P Asahikawa Jitsugyo HS R/R 08/23/2003 180/75 i2 Shota Hayamizu IF Toyama GRN Thunderbirds R/R 10/26/2000 174/67 i3 Kirato Nagashimada P Tachibana Gakuen HS R/R 11/30/2003 180/85 i4 Ryosuke Murayama C Makuhari Sogo HS R/R 11/12/2003 186/108 Swallowsx Chihiro Sumida P Nishinippon IT Univ L/L 08/20/1999 177/761 Hikaru Yamashita P Hosei University L/L 09/12/1999 188/95 2 Kazuya Maruyama OF Meiji University L/L 07/18/1999 174/78 3 Daichi Shibata P Nippon Tsuun R/R 11/07/1997 180/93 4 Kotaro Komori IF Ube Kogyo HS R/R 04/30/2003 172/83 5 Hyuga Takeyama P Kyoei HS R/R 11/02/2003 182/85 i1 Yukihiro Iwata OF Shinano Grandserows L/L 07/31/1997 178/77 Buffaloes 1 Ren Mokunoki P Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/R 01/22/2000 179/84 2 Tomoya Noguchi IF Kansai University R/L 09/20/1999 181/86 3 Sho Fukunaga C Kokugakuin University R/R 07/28/1999 175/87 4 Haruto Watanabe OF Keio University L/L 09/02/1999 170/67 5 Ryoma Ikeda OF Osaka Toin HS R/R 08/24/2003 172/85 6 Kaede Yokoyama P Sega Sammy R/S 12/28/1997 181/91 7 Atsuya Kogita P TDK R/R 10/10/1998 173/83 i1 Takayuki Yamanaka OF Ibaraki Astro Planets R/R 03/10/1999 183/96 i2 Keita Sonobe IF Fukushima Red Hopes R/R 08/24/1999 177/88 i3 Kosei Ohsato IF Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/L 07/07/1999 178/76 note: Hirohata actually from Mitsubishi Kurashiki Oceans (can't fit)
Baystars: Kenta Kozono, RHP Shiritsu Wakayama HS
Fighters: Kota Tatsu, RHP Tenri HS
Dragons: Kenta Bright, OF Jobu University
Lions: Chihiro Sumida, LHP Nishinippon Institute of Technology
Carp: Sumida
Hawks: Kyuta Kazama, RHP Meioh HS
Giants: Sumida
Rakuten: Soshi Yoshino, OF Shohei HS
Tigers: Kozono
Marines: Koh Matsukawa, C Shiritsu Wakayama HS
Swallows: Sumida
Orix: Ren Mokunoki, RHP Tohoku Fukushi University
Lottery for Kozono goes to the Baystars
Lottery for Sumida goes to the Lions
Second first round:
Carp: Hikaru Yamashita, RHP Hosei University
Giants: Taisei Ohta, RHP Kansai Kokusai University
Tigers: Daichi Moriki, RHP Kochi HS
Swallows: Yamashita
Lottery for Yamashita goes to the Swallows.
Carp choose LHP Takumi Kurohara with their "third" first round pick.
Actual first round results are:
Baystars: Kenta Kozono, RHP Shiritsu Wakayama HS
Fighters: Kota Tatsu, RHP Tenri HS
Dragons: Kenta Bright, OF Jobu University
Lions: Chihiro Sumida, LHP Nishinippon Institute of Technology
Carp: Takumi Kurohara, LHP Kansai Gakuin University
Hawks: Kyuta Kazama, RHP Meioh HS
Giants: Taisei Ohta, RHP Kansai Kokusai University
Rakuten: Soshi Yoshino, OF Shohei HS
Tigers: Daichi Moriki, RHP Kochi HS
Marines: Koh Matsukawa, C Shiritsu Wakayama HS
Swallows: Hikaru Yamashita, RHP Hosei University
Orix: Ren Mokunoki, RHP Tohoku Fukushi University
I had the depressing thought that we have now started drafting players that were born AFTER I went to my first NPB games in 2003.
And for the first time ever, I think I saw a leap year birthday kid? Eiji Kamouchi, Giants Ikusei #5? In all the time I've been doing the draft I haven't seen a leap year birthday, and it's been 16 years, so it's not like I haven't had a few chances at it. But leap year birthdays are SUPER rare chance for baseball players anyway, since the kids tend to have more April/May/June birthdays at the beginning of the school year anyway (since they'll be the bigger taller kids that do better at sports); birthdays in Jan/Feb/March are usually a little bit more rare to begin with, let alone getting an actual leap year one.
Actually, Kamouchi seems to be the FIRST ever leap year player in the NPB! Wow! I found some resources like this page and also did a few other searches, and while there were soccer players, it didn't find any baseball players...
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Tokyo Big 6: The I-Lost-To-Todai Club, ten years later
I've been a giant fan of Japanese college baseball since 2007, and when I was living in Japan I pretty much spent every weekend at the Tokyo Big 6 games, sitting in the front row taking photos with some friends, going outside and chatting up players after the games, getting photos with them and getting the photos I took of them autographed, and also bringing snacks for the players and jokingly offering to be everyone's English teacher. This resulted in things like several years in a row, I had actually been out drinking with guys who got drafted, and other shenanigans.
Somewhere along the line I became somewhat obsessed with actually being there in person for a Tokyo University win again. (I was there when they won a game in 2008, and I was there for a few ties.) So I started prioritizing those games, and somehow my allegiance shifted from being well-known as a Hosei/Keio fangirl to a Todai fangirl. It means I am not buddy-buddy with guys in the pros so much anymore, but the Todai guys are always the nicest, smartest, and most interesting ones anyway. Plus, since I've been working for Google for over seven years now, and we have a LOT of Todai grads, it has also been a running joke with a lot of my coworkers in the Tokyo office.
So a decade ago I wrote a post on here called The I-Lost-To-Todai Club pointing out that, since Todai basically can go whole years without winning a game, when they DO actually win, it's a big deal (the slogan on the Fall 2016 posters literally said "We make the news just by winning one game") -- but the pitchers who lose to them aren't generally crappy pitchers -- they're the ones who often end up going into the pros.
Win Loss Tie Opponent WP LP 2010 Autumn 1 10 0 Waseda Shota Suzuki Yuki Saitoh 2011 Spring 0 10 1 2011 Autumn 0 10 0 2012 Spring 0 10 0 2012 Autumn 0 10 1 2013 Spring 0 10 0 2013 Autumn 0 10 0 2014 Spring 0 10 0 2014 Autumn 0 10 0 2015 Spring 1 10 0 Hosei Akihiro Shibata Shuya Kanno 2015 Autumn 1 10 0 Hosei Kohei Miyadai Takuya Kumagai 2016 Spring 3 10 0 Meiji Akihiro Shibata Hiromasa Saitoh Rikkio Kohei Miyadai Keisuke Sawada Hosei Kohei Miyadai Shoichi Tamakuma 2016 Autumn 1 10 0 Rikkio Kohei Miyadai Seiya Tanaka 2017 Spring 0 10 0 2017 Autumn 3 8 0 Keio Kohei Miyadai Yuki Takahashi Hosei Kohei Miyadai Shuya Kanno Hosei Naoki Miyamoto Yuya Hasegawa 2018 Spring 0 10 0 2018 Autumn 0 10 1 2019 Spring 0 10 0 2019 Autumn 0 10 0 2020 Spring 0 5 0 2020 Autumn 0 9 1 Total: 10 202 4
Monday, October 26, 2020
Draft 2020 blog post
I ordered draft magazines that showed up last week, though, and it's hard to let old habits die, since this is my 15TH YEAR IN A ROW TRANSLATING THE DRAFT so I can't imagine NOT doing it. I'll add to this post as it goes.
Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Buffaloesx Teruaki Satoh1 Shunpeita Yamashita P Fukuoka Univ Ohhori HS R/R 07/16/2002 189/93 2 Kendai Gen OF Chukyo HS R/R 05/17/2002 186/85 3 Ryoto Kita OF Akashi Shogyo HS R/L 10/16/2002 178/78 4 Hayate Nakagawa P Rikkyo Univ R/L 10/10/1998 184/80 5 Takuma Nakagawa C Toyohashi Chuo HS R/R 07/17/2002 177/86 6 Shota Abe P Nihon Seimei R/L 11/03/1992 178/78 i1 Kento Kawase P Oita Shogyo HS R/R 06/18/2002 183/85 i2 Takara Tsujigaki P Shoin Gakuen Fukushima L/L 06/10/2002 182/83 i3 Yuki Udagawa P Sendai Univ R/R 11/10/1998 184/94 i4 Jui Tsuri C Kyoto Kokusai HS R/R 06/30/2002 181/87 i5 Yukikazu Sano OF Sendai Univ R/L 09/02/1998 174/80 i6 Taku Kochoh IF Fukushima Red Hopes R/R 08/05/1994 164/67 Swallowsx Takahisa Hayakawa x Shota Suzuki1 Naofumi Kizawa P Keio Univ R/R 04/25/1998 183/85 2 Taichi Yamano P Tohoku Fukushi Univ L/L 03/24/1999 172/77 3 Soma Uchiyama C Seiryo HS R/R 06/30/2002 172/72 4 Hiyu Motoyama IF Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/L 12/04/1998 180/76 5 Hidetaka Namiki OF Dokkyo Univ R/R 03/23/1999 170/70 6 Sota Katekaru P Japan Aviation Ishikawa R/R 12/16/2002 191/106 i1 Shinnosuke Shimo P Takasaki Kenko Fukushi L/L 06/18/2002 183/87 i2 Yoshihiro Akahane IF Shinano Grandserows R/R 06/29/2000 178/78 i3 Sho Matsui C Shinano Grandserows R/L 05/29/1995 176/78 i4 Shota Maruyama P Nishinihon Kogyo Univ R/L 08/22/1998 192/80 Fighters 1 Hiromi Itoh P Komazawa Univ Tomakomai R/L 08/31/1997 176/80 2 Ryota Isobata OF Chuo Univ R/L 11/27/1998 172/67 3 Yudai Furukawa C Jobu Univ R/L 06/19/1998 182/86 4 Ryohei Hosokawa IF Chiben Wakayama HS R/L 04/25/2002 174/75 5 Haruka Nemoto P Tomakomai Chuo HS L/L 03/31/2003 173/78 6 Yuma Imagawa OF JFE East R/R 01/25/1997 176/84 i1 Ryodai Matsumoto P Hanamaki Higashi HS R/R 05/17/2002 187/96 i2 Shinji Saitoh P Tokyo Joho Univ R/R 06/13/1998 181/83 Carp 1 Ryoji Kuribayashi P Toyota R/R 07/09/1996 177/80 2 Daisuke Moriura P Tenri Univ L/L 06/15/1998 175/70 3 Haruki Ohmichi P Hachinohe Gakuin Univ R/R 01/20/1999 178/78 4 Tatsuto Kobayashi P Chiben Wakayama HS R/R 01/16/2003 182/79 5 Shun Namiki P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 01/08/2000 183/75 6 Masaya Yano IF Asia Univ R/L 12/16/1998 173/71 i1 Shoichi Futamata C Iwata Higashi HS R/R 10/21/2002 180/76 Eagles 1 Takahisa Hayakawa P Waseda Univ L/L 07/06/1998 179/72 2 Koichi Takata P Hosei Univ R/R 06/03/1998 183/88 3 Masaru Fujii P ENEOS L/L 10/03/1996 175/78 4 Takuma Uchima P Asia Univ R/R 11/21/1998 179/84 5 Daiki Irie IF Sendai Ikuei HS R/R 06/06/2002 185/82 6 Seiryu Uchi P Riseisha HS R/L 04/24/2002 190/88 i1 Shun Ishida P Tochigi Golden Braves R/R 05/27/1997 180/74 Baystars 1 Taisei Irie P Meiji Univ R/R 08/26/1998 187/84 2 Shugo Maki IF Chuo Univ R/R 04/21/1998 178/81 3 Ryunosuke Matsumoto P Yokohama HS L/L 07/31/2002 186/76 4 Daichi Kobukata IF Riseisha HS R/L 03/25/2003 176/87 5 Sota Ikeya P Yamaha L/L 08/02/1999 174/76 6 Takuto Takada P Shizuoka Shogyo HS L/L 09/18/2002 177/74 i1 Tatsuya Ishikawa P Hosei Univ L/R 04/15/1998 178/73 i2 Dai Katoh P Yokohama Hayato HS R/R 04/24/2002 177/81 Lionsx Takahisa Hayakawa1 Kento Watanabe IF Toin Yokohama Univ R/R 12/26/1998 176/113 2 Takeru Sasaki P NTT East L/L 05/13/1996 179/85 3 Takayoshi Yamamura IF Tokaidai Sagami HS R/L 09/28/2002 180/85 4 Gakuto Wakabayashi OF Komazawa Univ R/R 04/13/1998 177/75 5 Ren Ohmagari P Fukuoka Univ R/R 05/21/1998 179/78 6 Brandon Taiga Tysinger IF Nodai Okhotsk Univ R/R 06/14/1998 178/84 7 Yuta Nakamigawa OF Osaka Toin HS R/L 10/22/2002 180/94 i1 Yuto Akagami P Tohoku Koeki Univ R/R 02/10/1999 177/80 i2 Shinya Hasegawa OF Tsuruga Kehi HS R/R 05/17/2002 183/80 i3 Joseph Ken Miyamoto OF Nagoya Gakuin Univ R/R 03/21/1999 175/86 i4 Taishi Mameda P Urawa Jitsugyo Gakuen R/R 01/15/2003 173/80 i5 Yoshinobu Mizukami P Shikoku Gakuin Univ R/R 07/13/1998 176/81 Tigers 1 Teruaki Satoh IF Kinki Univ R/L 03/13/1999 186/92 2 Masashi Itoh P JR East L/L 05/08/1996 178/85 3 Ren Satoh P Jobu Univ R/R 04/11/1998 188/102 4 Yuki Sakaeda C Ritsumeikan Univ R/R 05/16/1998 179/79 5 Shoki Murakami P Toyo Univ R/L 06/25/1998 174/75 6 Takumu Nakano IF Mitsubishi Okazaki R/L 06/28/1996 172/67 7 Nozomu Takatera IF Ueda Nishi HS R/L 10/17/2002 178/68 8 Daichi Ishii P Kochi Fighting Dogs R/R 07/29/1997 175/81 i1 Masaki Iwata P Kyushu Sangyo Univ L/L 06/16/1998 178/83 Marinesx Takahisa Hayakawa1 Shota Suzuki P Hosei Univ L/L 09/07/1998 175/81 2 Shunsuke Nakamori P Akashi Shogyo HS R/L 05/29/2002 181/79 3 Ryusei Ogawa P Kokugakuin Univ R/L 04/05/1998 172/82 4 Tokito Kawamura P Seisa Dohto Univ R/R 06/18/1997 192/85 5 Ryosuke Nishikawa OF Tokaidai Sagami HS R/R 04/19/2002 186/92 i1 Yuito Tanigawa C Risshodai Shonan HS R/R 05/27/2002 178/72 i2 Kenta Onuma P Ibaraki Astro Planets R/R 06/11/1998 189/86 i3 Daito Yamamoto OF Kaisei HS R/R 08/09/2002 180/90 i4 Shoma Satoh P Senshu Univ L/L 06/02/1998 177/78 Dragons 1 Hiroto Takahashi P Chukyodai Chukyo HS R/R 08/09/2002 183/84 2 Hiroto Mori P Nittai Univ R/R 05/25/1998 177/80 3 Ryuku Tsuchida IF Ohmi HS R/L 12/30/2002 180/77 4 Shota Fukushima P Kurashiki Kogyo HS L/L 10/24/2002 177/88 5 Tsubasa Katoh P Teikyodai Kani HS R/R 12/14/2002 179/76 6 Hironori Miyoshi OF JFE West L/L 09/28/1997 180/82 i1 Ren Kondoh P Sapporo Gakuin Univ L/L 09/22/1998 180/87 i2 Kotaro Ueda P Kyoei HS L/L 09/06/2002 184/95 i3 Yuta Matsukihira P Seika HS R/R 02/24/2003 178/70 Hawksx Teruaki Satoh1 Tomoya Inoue IF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/R 01/28/2003 181/88 2 Yoshiyasu Sasagawa OF Yokohama Shogyo HS L/L 05/31/2002 193/86 3 Kota Makihara C Nichidai Fujisawa HS R/L 07/13/2002 176/82 4 Junpei Kawarada IF Aomori Yamada HS R/R 05/21/2002 170/72 5 Sota Tanoue P Riseisha HS R/L 11/26/2002 185/83 i1 Hiroki Satoh P Keio Univ L/L 02/18/1999 180/80 i2 Yuya Nakamichi P Hachinohe Gakuin Univ L/L 09/04/1998 182/75 i3 Shuji Kuwahara P Kamimura Gakuen HS R/R 05/29/2002 175/80 i4 Shinnosuke Haya OF Kyoto Kokusai HS L/L 09/11/2002 178/78 i5 Riku Ogata IF Komazawa Univ R/L 09/22/1998 175/70 i6 Shoma Itani C Meiho HS R/R 12/30/2002 177/77 i7 Shinno Ohshiro P Ginoza HS L/L 11/24/2002 170/67 i8 Ryota Nakamura P Nodai Okhotsk Univ R/R 05/18/1998 185/76 Giantsx Teruaki Satoh1 Ryuta Heinai P Asia Univ R/R 09/07/1998 186/90 2 Iori Yamasaki P Tokai Uinv R/L 10/10/1998 181/72 3 Raito Nakayama IF Chukyodai Chukyo HS R/L 04/12/2002 181/81 4 Yusuke Itoh P Mitsubishi Power R/R 01/14/1997 178/83 5 Yuto Akihiro IF Nishogakusha HS R/L 09/17/2002 200/95 6 Itsuki Yamamoto P Chukyo Univ L/L 06/28/1998 181/87 7 Tetsu Hagiwara C Soka Univ R/L 05/18/1998 174/82 i1 Hiroto Okamoto IF Yonago Higashi HS R/R 09/12/2002 190/92 i2 Ryusuke Kita C Kyoto Adv. Sci. Univ R/R 08/25/1998 180/83 i3 Naoki Kasashima P Tsuruga Kehi HS R/R 12/07/2002 178/78 i4 Motoya Kinoshita P Yokohama HS R/R 05/01/2002 185/88 i5 Kenki Maeda C Komazawa Univ R/L 12/13/1998 180/85 i6 Hayato Sakamoto C Karatsu Shogyo HS R/R 04/15/2002 177/83 i7 Natsuki Toda P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 07/22/2000 172/70 i8 Kenyu Abe P Sapporo Ohtani HS L/L 05/17/2002 200/98 i9 Riku Naraki P Tsukuba Univ R/R 04/16/1998 182/90 i10 Yusuke Yamasaki P Fukuyama Univ R/R 05/02/1998 178/80 i11 Koichi Hoshina OF Soka Univ L/L 06/03/1998 187/92 i12 Ren Katoh IF Tokai Univ Marine Sci. R/L 01/12/1999 181/80
Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Draft 2019 Blog Post (not liveblogging! sorry!)
I was in NYC for a work conference this week, so since the draft was at an even MORE awkward time for me than expected, I just translated everything in the morning/afternoon.
Here's my table.
Status: Done, except for the fact that EVERY YEAR the Hawks don't bother making all of the information available about their players, so I may or may not fill in height/weight for them later.
I will also fill in the actual draft round 1 lottery info below, despite that I wasn't liveblogging, and I have a few comments about a few players in here as well.
Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Giantsx Yasunobu Okugawa P Seiryo HS R/R 04/16/2001 183/84 x Tetsu Miyagawa P Toshiba R/R 10/10/1995 177/801 Kenshin Hotta P Aomori Yamada HS R/R 05/21/2001 185/80 2 Ryu Ohta P JR East R/R 11/15/1998 190/94 3 Hirokazu Kikuta IF Joso Gakuin HS R/R 07/23/2001 182/93 4 Haruto Inoue P Maebashi Shogyo HS L/L 05/13/2001 175/72 5 Shinnosuke Yamase C Seiryo HS R/R 05/04/2001 177/82 6 Kaito Itoh OF Sakata Minami HS L/L 04/02/2001 187/88 i1 Hayato Hirama IF Tokushima Indigo Socks R/L 12/16/1996 173/75 i2 Sota Katoh OF Musashino Heat Bears R/L 04/15/1998 187/89 Seibux Roki Sasaki P Ofunato HS R/R 11/03/2001 190/861 Tetsu Miyagawa P Toshiba R/R 10/10/1995 177/80 2 Shota Hamaya P MHPS (Mitsubishi Power) L/L 01/26/1999 175/77 3 Koki Matsuoka P Musashino Heat Bears R/R 08/31/2000 180/81 4 Ryota Kawano IF Kyushu Gakuin HS R/S 06/28/2001 178/78 5 Sena Tsuge C Honda Suzuka R/R 06/03/1997 174/83 6 Hiroki Inoue P Nichidai Sanko HS R/R 07/17/2001 181/82 7 Towa Uema P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 01/31/2001 180/79 8 Junichiro Kishi IF/OF Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 12/08/1996 175/78 i1 Toshihiro Idei P Kanagawa Univ R/R 04/29/1997 185/70 Baystars 1 Keito Mori IF Toin Gakuen HS R/L 01/28/2002 175/75 2 Yuya Sakamoto P Ritsumeikan Univ L/L 07/28/1997 180/83 3 Hiromu Ise P Meiji Univ R/R 03/07/1998 181/90 4 Junpei Azuma C Chiben Wakayama HS R/R 07/03/2001 172/77 5 Hayato Tanabe IF Kaisei HS R/R 12/22/2001 185/83 6 Tatsuo Ebina OF Aomori Univ R/R 09/20/1997 185/88 7 Sota Asada P Ariake HS R/R 04/23/2001 182/84 Hawksx Takaya Ishikawa IF Toho HS R/R 06/22/2001 185/901 Naoki Satoh OF JR West R/R 09/03/1998 177/78 2 Takashi Umeno C Tokai Univ R/R 07/15/1997 173/83 3 Yuki Tsumori P Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/R 01/21/1998 177/78 4 Jui Kobayashi IF Tokaidai Sapporo HS R/R 05/07/2001 183/86 5 Tatsuru Yanagimachi OF Keio Univ R/L 04/20/1997 180/72 i1 Soichiro Ishizuka C Kurosawajiri HS R/R 06/07/2001 181/83 i2 Tomohisa Ohzeki P Sendai Univ L/L 12/14/1997 186/95 i3 Daisuke Itoh IF Hachinohe Kosei HS R/R 07/27/2001 i4 Haruki Katsuren IF Konan HS R/L 04/30/2001 i5 Hidetora Funakoshi OF Johoku HS R/R 08/23/2001 i6 Shota Araki IF Chiharadai HS R/R 04/05/2001 i7 Shun Murakami P Yamagata Chuo HS L/L 11/01/2001 Tigersx Yasunobu Okugawa P Seiryo HS R/R 04/16/2001 183/841 Junya Nishi P Soka Gakuen HS R/R 09/13/2001 184/85 2 Kota Inoue OF Riseisha HS R/R 08/12/2001 187/97 3 Masaki Oyokawa P Yokohama HS L/L 04/18/2001 183/74 4 Joh Endoh IF Tokaidai Sagami HS R/L 09/19/2001 178/84 5 Kento Fujita C Chukyodai Chukyo HS R/R 10/18/2001 173/73 6 Ippei Ogawa P Tokai Univ Kyushu R/R 06/03/1997 182/80 i1 Dan Onodera OF Osaka Shogyo Univ R/R 03/17/1998 183/82 i2 Kota Okuyama OF Shizuoka Univ R/R 09/03/1997 186/93 Eaglesx Roki Sasaki P Ofunato HS R/R 11/03/2001 190/861 Hiroto Kobukata IF Osaka Gas R/L 09/28/1995 168/69 2 Fumiya Kurokawa IF Chiben Wakayama HS R/L 04/17/2001 182/85 3 Taisei Tsurusaki P Keio Univ R/R 10/10/1997 177/85 4 Atsuki Mutoh OF Miyakonojo East HS L/L 06/15/2001 178/73 5 Yohma Fukumori P Kyushu Sangyo Univ R/R 09/27/1997 178/87 6 Ryota Takinaka P Honda Suzuka R/R 12/20/1994 180/93 7 Kei Mizukami C Akashi Shogyo HS R/R 07/05/2001 172/73 i1 Yuto Egawa C Oita HS R/R 06/29/2001 177/81 i2 Shinri Komune P Kagoshima Johsei HS R/L 12/01/2001 189/88 i3 Maaki Yamazaki IF Hawaii Univ R/L 09/26/1995 182/84 i4 Kiyoharu Sawano IF Homare HS R/L 03/09/2002 184/84 Carp 1 Masato Morishita P Meiji Univ R/R 08/25/1997 180/73 2 Koki Ugusa OF Hosei Univ R/L 04/17/1997 185/81 3 Hiroto Suzuki P Kasumigaura HS R/R 10/07/2001 186/79 4 Yuya Nirasawa IF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/L 05/20/2001 178/80 5 Tomoki Ishihara C Tenri Univ R/R 02/03/1998 173/75 6 Shogo Tamamura P Fukui Kenritsu Nyu HS L/L 04/16/2001 177/75 i1 Taiki Mochimaru C Asahikawadai HS R/L 10/26/2001 177/80 i2 Motohide Kinoshita OF Tsuruga Kehi HS L/L 07/25/2001 183/83 i3 Takamasa Une P Kagawa Olive Guyners R/S 09/09/1995 177/83 Marines 1 Roki Sasaki P Ofunato HS R/R 11/03/2001 190/86 2 Toshiya Satoh C Toyo Univ R/L 01/27/1998 180/77 3 Akito Takabe OF Kokushikan Univ R/L 12/11/1997 178/72 4 Rikuto Yokoyama P Senshudai Matsudo HS R/R 08/05/2001 179/76 5 Koki Fukuda IF Hosei Univ R/L 11/16/1997 176/80 i1 Fumiya Motomae P Hokusho Univ L/L 10/02/1997 175/76 i2 Shota Ueda C Keio Univ R/R 12/18/1997 180/83 Dragons 1 Takaya Ishikawa IF Toho HS R/R 06/22/2001 185/90 2 Yuki Hashimoto P Osaka Sangyo Univ L/L 01/08/1998 180/71 3 Yuichiro Okano P Toshiba R/R 04/16/1994 180/85 4 Yuya Gunji C Keio Univ R/R 12/17/1997 180/83 5 Yuki Okabayashi P Komono HS R/L 02/22/2002 177/74 6 Ryushin Takeuchi P Sapporo Sosei HS R/L 12/11/2001 178/77 i1 Hiroaki Matsuda P Nagoya Univ L/L 05/16/1997 176/80 Fightersx Roki Sasaki P Ofunato HS R/R 11/03/2001 190/861 Ryusei Kawano P JFE West L/L 05/30/1998 174/82 2 Kazuaki Tateno P Tokai Rika R/R 04/03/1998 181/82 3 Kyohei Ueno IF Kyoto International HS R/R 04/26/2001 172/68 4 Kenya Suzuki P JX-ENEOS R/L 12/11/1997 176/82 5 Daiki Mochizuki P Soka Univ R/R 02/01/1998 187/85 6 Yuki Umebayashi C Hiroshima Bunka Univ R/R 03/14/1998 173/85 7 Shoto Kataoka OF East Japan Intl Univ R/L 11/16/1997 184/78 i1 Hokuto Miyata OF Fukuoka Univ R/S 12/02/1997 177/69 i2 Ryunosuke Higuchi IF Niigata Albirex R/R 07/04/1994 168/84 i3 Ryota Hasegawa P Niigata Albirex R/L 11/08/1995 188/98 Swallows 1 Yasunobu Okugawa P Seiryo HS R/R 04/16/2001 183/84 2 Daiki Yoshida P Nittai Univ R/R 07/27/1997 175/75 3 Koki Sugiyama P Soka Univ R/L 06/25/1997 182/84 4 Hiroki Ohnishi P Osaka Sangyo Univ R/R 11/08/1997 175/83 5 Hideki Nagaoka IF Yachiyo Shoin HS R/L 09/26/2001 175/74 6 Ryusei Takeoka IF Hachinohe Kosei HS R/L 05/28/2001 178/77 Buffaloesx Takaya Ishikawa IF Toho HS R/R 06/22/2001 185/90 x Ryusei Kawano P JFE West L/L 05/30/1998 174/821 Hiroya Miyagi P Konan HS L/L 08/25/2001 172/80 2 Kotaro Kurebayashi IF Suruga Sogo HS R/R 02/07/2002 186/82 3 Ryota Muranishi P Kinki Univ R/L 06/06/1997 174/76 4 Yuito Mae P Tsuda Gakuen HS R/R 08/13/2001 182/88 5 Shoki Katsumata IF Kokusai Budo Univ R/L 07/20/1997 178/84 i1 Kazuma Satoh P Yokohama Hayato HS L/L 04/16/2001 189/88 i2 Fuuta Tanioka P Takeda HS R/R 08/29/2001 176/82 i3 Yuito Nakata P Osaka Toin HS R/R 09/13/2001 181/90 i4 Yamato Hirano OF Nissho HS R/R 08/07/2001 177/78 i5 Ryoya Tsurumi C Tokiwadai HS R/R 11/22/2001 174/75 i6 Seiichiro Ohshita OF Hakuoh Univ R/R 11/03/1997 171/89 i7 Yugo Satoh OF Sendai Univ R/R 04/02/1997 182/90 i8 Masayuki Matsuyama P Toyama Thunderbirds R/R 08/18/2000 174/76
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Draft 2018 Liveblogging
[liveblog stuff moved to underneath draft chart stuff -- Draft chart is 99.9% finished as of 6pm California time on the 25th. I just don't have birthdays for Hawks ikusei players because their website is useless.]
Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Eaglesx Kyota Fujiwara1 Ryosuke Tatsumi OF Ritsumeikan Univ R/L 12/27/1996 180/72 2 Hikaru Ohta C Osaka Shogyo Univ R/R 10/14/1996 177/75 3 Shuichiro Hikiji P Kurashiki Shogyo HS R/R 06/03/2000 188/84 4 Hayato Yuge P Subaru L/L 04/06/1994 193/105 5 Tomoki Satoh P Yamagata Chuo HS L/L 06/05/2000 184/82 6 Yoshiaki Watanabe IF Meiji Univ R/L 01/08/1997 180/79 7 Yuya Ogoh OF Rissho Univ R/L 08/03/1996 178/85 8 Sora Suzuki P Fuji Univ L/L 08/19/1996 184/77 i1 Kotaro Seimiya P Yachiyo Shoin HS R/L 05/26/2000 190/85 i2 Yoshiki Norimoto P Yamagishi Logisters R/L 05/14/1994 174/76 (lol at this kid whose name LOOKS like "Kotaro Kiyomiya" but is actually Seimiya) Tigersx Kyota Fujiwara x Ryosuke Tatsumi1 Koji Chikamoto OF Osaka Gas L/L 11/09/1994 170/72 2 Ryuhei Obata IF Nobeoka Gakuen HS R/L 09/21/2000 181/73 3 Seiya Kinami IF Honda R/L 06/15/1994 178/80 4 Yukiya Saitoh P Honda R/L 01/05/1995 184/90 5 Riku Kawahara P Souseikan HS L/L 12/12/2000 184/80 6 Atsuki Yuasa P BCL Toyama Thunderbirds R/R 07/17/1999 183/88 i1 Yuya Katayama C Fukui Miracle Elephants R/L 06/18/1994 177/83 Marines 1 Kyota Fujiwara OF Osaka Toin HS L/L 05/06/2000 181/78 2 Yusuke Azuma P Nittai Univ R/R 04/04/1996 172/80 3 Kazuya Ojima P Waseda Univ L/L 07/07/1996 177/81 4 Koki Yamaguchi OF Meioh HS R/R 08/18/2000 182/85 5 Toshiya Nakamura P Asia Univ L/L 07/08/1996 177/86 6 Takuro Furuya P Narashino HS R/R 04/21/2000 182/76 7 Shin Matsuda IF Honda R/R 08/29/1994 188/95 8 Hideto Doi P Matsuyama Seiryo HS R/R 04/02/2000 191/84 i1 Mizuki Kamata P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 09/06/1995 180/91 Dragons 1 Akira Neo P Osaka Toin HS R/L 04/19/2000 177/80 2 Kodai Umetsu P Toyo Univ R/R 10/24/1996 187/90 3 Akiyoshi Katsuno P Mitsubishi Juko Nagoya R/R 06/12/1997 183/89 4 Kota Ishibashi C Kanto Daiichi HS R/R 12/07/2000 180/87 5 Kenshin Kakikoshi P Yamanashi Gakuin HS L/L 04/03/2000 184/96 6 Kaname Takino OF Osaka Shogyo Univ R/L 07/08/1996 185/76 BuffaloesKaito Kozono1 Ryo Ohta IF Tenri HS R/R 02/14/2001 181/76 2 Yuma Tongu C Asia Univ R/R 11/17/1996 181/97 3 Yudai Aranishi P Honda Kumamoto R/R 08/25/1992 178/83 4 Ryoga Tomiyama P Toyota L/L 05/03/1997 178/82 5 Sho Gibo P KBC Mirai Okinawa HS R/L 11/26/2000 174/67 6 Yu Hidarisawa P JX-ENEOS L/L 12/28/1994 171/76 7 Keita Nakagawa IF Toyo Univ R/R 04/12/1996 180/75 i1 Taisei Urushihara P Niigata Iryo Fukushi U R/L 09/10/1996 182/83 (Tongu was a catcher at Asia-dai but the Buffaloes are listing him as IF for some reason) (Aranishi is listed with an 8/25 birthday everywhere EXCEPT the Buffaloes site) BaystarsKaito Kozono1 Taiga Kamichatani P Toyo Univ R/R 08/31/1996 181/83 2 Yukiya Itoh IF Rissho Univ R/R 08/30/1996 182/95 3 Shinichi Ohnuki P Sumitomo Metal Kashima R/R 02/03/1994 181/75 4 Atsushi Katsumata P Nichidai Tsurugaoka HS R/L 05/22/2000 180/80 5 Kyosuke Mashiko C Seirantaito HS R/R 12/27/2000 176/90 6 Naoto Chino IF BCL Niigata Albirex R/R 02/16/1999 181/81 i1 Daita Miyagi P Shiga Gakuen HS R/R 07/15/2000 181/73 Fightersx Akira Neo1 Kosei Yoshida P Kannano HS R/R 01/12/2001 175/84 2 Yuki Nomura IF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/R 06/26/2000 185/90 3 Tsubasa Nabatame P Nippon Tsuun R/R 02/19/1995 176/86 4 Chusei Mannami OF Yokohama HS R/R 04/07/2000 190/90 5 Ren Kakigi P Osaka Toin HS R/R 06/25/2000 181/88 6 Yua Tamiya C Narita HS R/L 06/13/2000 174/77 7 Suguru Fukuda P Seisa Dohto Univ L/L 12/14/1996 170/75 i1 Kazuyoshi Ebihara OF BCL Toyama Thunderbirds R/L 09/13/1995 188/92 Giantsx Akira Neo x Ryosuke Tatsumi1 Yuki Takahashi P Hachinohe Gakuin Univ L/L 02/01/1997 178/82 2 Riku Masuda IF Meishu Hitachi HS R/R 06/17/2000 178/80 3 Daisuke Naoe P Matsusho Gakuen HS R/R 06/20/2000 184/77 4 Kai Yokogawa P Osaka Toin HS L/L 08/30/2000 190/90 5 Yoshiya Matsui IF Orio Aishin HS R/L 06/18/2000 191/90 6 Shosei Togoh P Seishin Ursula HS R/R 04/04/2000 184/70 i1 Kota Yamashita OF Kendai Takasaki HS R/L 11/15/2000 176/80 i2 Kaisei Hirai P Gifu Daiichi HS R/R 09/12/2000 184/73 i3 Shohei Numata P Asahikawadai HS R/R 06/24/2000 175/64 i4 Hibiki Kuroda IF Tsuruga Kehi HS R/R 07/21/2000 184/75 Hawksx Kaito Kozono x Ryosuke Tatsumi1 Hiroshi Kaino P Toyo Univ R/R 11/16/1996 185/83 2 Kazuki Sugiyama P Mitsubishi Hiroshima R/R 12/07/1997 192/86 3 Daiju Nomura IF Waseda Jitsugyo HS R/R 09/10/2000 172/82 4 Yugo Bandoh P JR East R/R 12/27/1995 181/76 5 Shun Mizutani OF Iwami Chisuikan HS R/R 03/09/2001 192/94 6 Keisuke Izumi P Kanazawa Seiryo Univ R/R 03/02/1997 187/82 7 Masato Okumura P Mitsubishi Pwr Systems R/R 08/14/1992 177/80 i1 Riku Watanabe C Kamimura Gakuen HS R/L 185/80 i2 Naoya Okamoto P Nodai Okhotsk Univ L/L 180/72 i3 Tomoaki Shigeta P Kokushikan Univ R/R 185/77 i4 Takamasa Nakamura OF Nishinihon Tankidai HS R/R 183/87 Swallowsx Akira Neo x Taiga Kamichatani1 Noboru Shimizu P Kokugakuin Univ R/L 10/15/1996 180/84 2 Shota Nakayama IF Hosei Univ R/R 09/22/1996 185/95 3 Yuta Ichikawa P Meitoku Gijuku R/R 03/29/2001 185/75 4 Taiki Hamada OF Meiho HS R/R 09/04/2000 178/80 5 Koshiro Sakamoto P Sumikin Hirohata L/L 09/09/1994 180/70 6 Yuta Suzuki P Nihon Bunri HS R/R 08/02/2000 182/87 7 Takuma Kubo P Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ L/L 07/27/1996 175/75 8 Taisei Yoshida IF Meiji Yasuda Seimei R/L 03/07/1995 174/78 i1 Taishi Uchiyama C Tochigi Golden Braves R/R 04/21/1996 172/77 i2 Yu Matsumoto IF Fukui Miracle Elephants R/L 02/05/1995 180/82 Lions 1 Wataru Matsumoto P Nittai Univ R/R 11/28/1996 176/83 2 Yutaro Watanabe P Urawa Gakuin HS R/R 09/21/2000 190/90 3 Kakeru Yamanobe IF Mitsubishi Okazaki R/R 05/24/1994 170/72 4 Kaito Awatsu P East Japan Int'l Univ R/R 03/01/1997 180/80 5 Shoya Makino C Yugakkan HS R/L 03/04/2001 178/77 6 Ryosuke Moriwaki P Sega Sammy R/R 07/13/1992 175/70 7 Ryusei Satoh IF Fuji Univ R/R 01/15/1997 173/81 i1 Aoi Tohno P Nihon Keizai Univ L/L 11/30/1996 183/75 i2 Jiyu Ohkubo P Hokkai HS R/R 08/02/2000 198/88 i3 Daichi Nakaguma C Tokuyama Univ R/L 08/27/1996 176/84 Carp 1 Kaito Kozono IF Hotoku Gakuen HS R/L 06/07/2000 178/79 2 Sotaro Shimauchi P Kyushu Kyoritsu Univ R/R 10/14/1996 180/76 3 Kota Hayashi IF Chiben Wakayama HS R/L 11/16/2000 181/87 4 Takuto Nakagami IF Gifu Shogyo HS R/R 05/29/2000 175/85 5 Norihiko Tanaka P Komono HS R/R 10/19/2000 173/80 6 Yuya Shozui OF Asia Univ R/R 08/31/1996 181/90 7 Ryutaro Hatsuki IF Kamimura Gakuen HS R/L 04/19/2000 167/70 i1 Minoru Ohmori OF Shizuoka Sangyo Univ R/L 08/31/1996 179/70
This year's draft is on Thursday the 25th in Japan at 5pm; which means Thursday morning at 1am here in California.
I've got my usual set of draft magazines, a whole ton of industrial league info, various high school stuff, and yet I still have no idea what will happen on draft day. This year I don't actually have all that many favorites in the draft, believe it or not -- I mean, there's the usual assortment of college guys I've been watching for a while (I expect Yoshiaki Watanabe from Meiji and Shota Nakayama from Hosei and Kazuya Ojima from Waseda to get drafted anyway, as well as the Toyodai Trio (Umetsu, Kamichatani, and Kaino, all pitchers) and I know a lot of my friends are huge fans of Wataru Matsumoto from Nittaidai. But unlike most years, I don't think I have anyone in this draft who I know all that well personally (infact the only one I've met is Nakayama). This is probably partially because I've dedicated more of my time to the Fighters when I'm over in Japan, and partially because it rained a LOT this year when I was visiting, and partially because I shifted over to cheering for Todai more in the last few years :)
Also I apologize that this is literally the first post I've made in a year; if you've followed me for a while you know that I do still tweet a lot when I'm in Japan. I started writing a post about Fighters spring training this year but it was very frustrating and I ended up never posting it. Sorry!
HEY! Guess what, the Sports Bull stream actually seems to be working in the US! And I've even got it on my Pixel so I can use my laptop for typing in names/info!
Otherwise I'll still be watching the picks come in on various news sources such as Nikkan Sports as usual.
1am: And it's starting! Wheee! (I am such a Todai fangirl that I was almost more excited to see Endoh-san walking in behind Kida-san and the main posse.)
1:15am: I take it back. Sportsbull works but it keeps randomly coming with ads in the middle of everything. Well, we're getting underway with the first round...
Rakuten: Kyota Fujiwara, OF, Osaka Toin HS
Hanshin: Fujiwara
Marines: Fujiwara
Dragons: Akira Neo, IF, Osaka Toin HS
Orix: Kaito Kozono, IF, Hotoku Gakuen HS
Baystars: Kozono
Fighters: Neo
Giants: Neo
Hawks: Kozono
Swallows: Neo
Lions: Wataru Matsumoto, RHP, Nittai Univ
Carp: Kozono
WOW that is even more of a cluster than most years. 4, 4, 3, and the Seibu Lions just get Wataru Matsumoto uncontested (DAAAAAAAAAANG).
1:20am: First runoff is for Fujiwara, and he goes to the Chiba Lotte Marines! Whee.
1:23am: Next runoff is for Neo, and he goes to Chunichi. I don't actually know how I feel right now -- I almost expected Kida to pick him at this point, believe it or not...
1:27am: Next runoff for Kozono, and he goes to Hiroshima. Well, okay then.
Now people get to choose their second first round, and I start entering stuff into my chart.
Rakuten: Ryosuke Tatsumi, OF, Ritsumeikan Univ
Hanshin: Tatsumi
Orix: Ryo Ohta, IF, Tenri HS
Baystars: Taiga Kamichatani, RHP, Toyo Univ
Fighters: Kosei Yoshida, RHP Kannano HS
Giants: Tatsumi
Hawks: Tatsumi
Swallows: Kamichatani
1:35am: And now lottery for Tatsumi... and he goes to Rakuten!
1:38am: Lottery for Kamichatani, and... he goes to Yokohama. Huh...
And now we are on to the THIRD FIRST ROUND!!
Hanshin: Koji Chikamoto, OF, Osaka Gas
Giants: Yuki Takahashi, LHP, Hachinohe Univ
Hawks: Hiroshi Kaino, RHP Toyo Univ
Yakult: Noboru Shimizu, RHP Kokugakuin Univ
And that's that. Going to take a little break to tabulate this all at 1:44am now.
Oh, wait. So. ACTUAL FIRST ROUND IN FULL:
Rakuten: Ryosuke Tatsumi, OF, Ritsumeikan Univ
Hanshin: Koji Chikamoto, OF, Osaka Gas
Marines: Kyota Fujiwara, OF, Osaka Toin HS
Dragons: Akira Neo, IF, Osaka Toin HS
Orix: Ryo Ohta, IF, Tenri HS
Baystars: Taiga Kamichatani, RHP, Toyo Univ
Fighters: Kosei Yoshida, RHP Kannano HS
Giants: Yuki Takahashi, LHP, Hachinohe Gakuin Univ
Hawks: Hiroshi Kaino, RHP Toyo Univ
Yakult: Noboru Shimizu, RHP Kokugakuin Univ
Lions: Wataru Matsumoto, RHP, Nittai Univ
Carp: Kaito Kozono, IF, Hotoku Gakuen HS
I'm probly going heads-down into the grid from now on...
btw just a note: the FIGHTERS ARE ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING IN THE IKUSEI DRAFT THIS IS A HISTORIC FIRST WE HAVE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE.
Another funny thing: at the end of the 8th round they were like "Okay, all the teams are finished choosing... wait, our bad, sorry, Rakuten isn't finished. Rakuten?" and Rakuten was like "We're finished choosing."
I don't have a ton of commentary other than to say at least the 6 players I named as "will get picked" all got picked. I guess that's not too difficult though. Surprised that Watanabe went as late as he did, to be honest.
Actually that's a lie. As I've been entering these I noticed that there are a LOT more position players than pitchers, or at least, way more than I would expect normally in the draft. Also it felt like for a while there was a lack of lefties, and that we have a surprising number of kids at the far ends of the age spectrum, ie, a lot of March and April birthdays.
It's 4:44am right now and I've just finished the main chart (aside from a few birthdays I couldn't dig up). I'm going to briefly peer at Ikusei and see how many there are and I might put that off until the morning, so if this post doesn't have ikusei yet, that's why.
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Draft 2017 Liveblogging
This year's draft is on Thursday the 26th in Japan at 5pm; which means Thursday morning at 1am here in California.
Moving the commentary to below the grid now. Current state of things is that it's Friday morning and I have the entire draft table translated and the entire ikusei list, except that the Hawks didn't put out much info on their ikusei guys and I haven't had time to research them yet.
Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Marines1 Kotaro Kiyomiya1 Hisanori Yasuda IF Riseisha HS R/L 04/15/1999 188/95 2 Yudai Fujioka IF Toyota R/L 08/08/1993 177/78 3 Daiki Yamamoto P Mitsubishi Okayama L/L 11/10/1995 182/73 4 Tsuyoshi Sugano OF Hitachi R/L 05/06/1993 173/80 5 Keita Watanabe P NTT Higashinihon R/R 09/13/1993 177/70 6 Shoji Nagano P Honda L/L 03/02/1993 181/82 i1 Koshiro Wada OF Toyama Thunderbirds L/L 01/14/1999 185/72 i2 Ryotaro Mori P Miyakonojo Shogyo HS R/L 04/22/1999 180/80 Swallows1 Kotaro Kiyomiya1 Munetaka Murakami C Kyushu Gakuin HS R/L 02/02/2000 186/96 2 Yuma Ohshita P Mitsubishi Hiroshima R/L 07/06/1992 179/84 3 Harutaka Kuramoto P Okayama Shogyo Univ R/R 05/16/1995 186/95 4 Yasutaka Shiomi OF JX-ENEOS R/R 06/12/1993 179/73 5 Yuto Kanakubo P Tokai Ichihara Boyo HS R/L 11/04/1999 183/75 6 Takeshi Miyamoto IF Nara Gakuen Univ R/L 04/03/1995 181/78 7 Naoki Matsumoto C Seino Unyu R/R 10/17/1993 177/85 8 Takumi Numata P Ishikawa Million Stars R/R 03/04/1994 185/85 Fighters 1 Kotaro Kiyomiya IF Waseda Jitsugyo HS R/L 05/25/1999 184/102 2 Takahiro Nishimura P NTT Higashinihon R/R 05/06/1993 177/87 3 Eito Tanaka P Yanagigaura HS R/L 07/13/1999 184/70 4 Yuhei Nanba IF Soshi Gakuen HS R/L 05/06/1999 178/76 5 Ryuji Kitaura P Hakuohdai Ashikaga HS L/L 01/12/2000 184/85 6 Ryotaro Suzuki P Tohoku Gakuin Univ R/R 02/18/1996 183/83 7 Kohei Miyadai P Tokyo Univ L/L 07/01/1995 178/83 Dragons1 Shosei Nakamura1 Hiroshi Suzuki P Yamaha R/R 03/22/1997 181/95 2 Sho Ishikawa P Seiran Taito HS R/L 12/14/1999 179/81 3 Wataru Takamatsu IF Takikawa #2 HS R/L 07/02/1999 176/65 4 Tatsuya Shimizu P Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/R 11/03/1999 182/83 5 Kosuke Itoh OF Chukyodai Chukyo HS R/R 02/03/2000 173/76 6 Takumi Yamamoto P Nishinomiya Shiritsu HS R/R 01/31/2000 167/71 i1 Akito Ohkura P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 05/15/1994 191/88 i2 Kento Mark Ishida P Ryukoku Univ R/R 07/18/1995 184/83 Buffaloes 1 Daiki Tajima P JR Higashinihon L/L 08/03/1996 182/77 2 Kohei Suzuki P Hitachi R/R 01/21/1994 186/88 3 Shuhei Fukuda IF NTT Higashinihon R/L 08/08/1992 169/69 4 Hitomi Honda P Seisa Kokusai HS R/L 07/27/1999 181/75 5 Ryo Nishimura C Subaru R/R 02/21/1996 176/75 6 Hayato Nishiura OF Meitoku Gijuku HS R/L 05/21/1999 178/70 7 Shinya Hirosawa IF Oita Shogyo HS R/R 08/11/1999 175/67 8 Tatsuya Yamaashi IF Honda Suzuka R/R 10/26/1993 174/74 i1 Hiroki Inatomi C Sanda Shosei HS R/L 04/27/1999 178/88 i2 Kohei Azuma P Kobe Koryo HS R/R 12/14/1999 178/73 i3 Akihito Hiyane IF Hiryu HS R/R 08/25/1999 182/82 i4 Felipe Kisu Desouza C Gotenbani HS R/R 09/04/1999 176/73 Giants1 Kotaro Kiyomiya 1 Munetaka Murakami1 Takuya Kuwahara P Chuo University R/R 03/26/1996 175/78 2 Yukinori Kishida C Osaka Gas R/R 10/10/1996 175/78 3 Takumi Ohshiro C NTT Nishinihon R/L 02/11/1993 187/86 4 Takumi Kitamura IF Asia Univ R/R 08/29/1995 181/87 5 Shunta Tanaka IF Hitachi R/L 08/18/1993 180/83 6 Akihiro Wakabayashi IF JX-ENEOS R/S 08/26/1993 180/77 7 Kaito Murakami OF Nara Gakuen Univ R/R 07/07/1995 189/94 8 Dai Yuasa IF Takasaki Fukushi HS R/R 01/24/2000 170/67 i1 Kenshin Higa IF Moriokadai HS R/L 01/12/2000 180/82 i2 Shingo Yamakami P Tokiwa HS R/R 09/21/1999 183/75 i3 Shun Kasai OF Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/R 04/20/1995 180/80 i4 Yudai Tanaka P Haguro HS R/R 09/14/1999 183/75 i5 Rui Hirohata C Rissho Univ R/L 06/17/1995 177/72 i6 Shohei Koyama C Kansai Univ R/R 03/25/1996 170/70 i7 Koki Orishita IF Shinno HS R/R 02/14/2000 177/86 i8 Sota Arai OF Sekine Gakuen HS R/R 09/27/1999 190/98 Eagles1 Kotaro Kiyomiya 1 Munetaka Murakami1 Hiroki Kondoh P Okayama Shogyo Univ R/R 06/27/1995 187/92 2 Masaki Iwami OF Keio Univ R/R 07/10/1994 187/107 3 Tsuyoshi Yamasaki IF Kokugakuin Univ R/L 12/29/1995 172/72 4 Yuki Watanabe P Yokohama Shokadai L/L 11/08/1995 182/82 5 Akito Tanaka OF Hyogo Blue Thunders R/R 03/05/1996 181/98 6 Kenji Nishimaki IF Sendai Ikuei R/R 04/22/1999 168/73 7 Kanji Teraoka OF Ishikawa Million Stars R/R 12/03/1992 180/85 i1 Ryotaro Ide P Kyushu Sangyo Univ R/L 03/20/1996 185/83 i2 Kyoshiro Matsumoto IF Konan HS (Fukushima) R/L 09/21/1999 172/72 i3 Kazuki Nakamura OF Tenri Univ L/L 10/26/1995 173/75 Baystars 1 Katsuki Azuma P Ritsumeikan Univ L/L 11/29/1995 170/70 2 Kazuki Kamizato OF Nihon Seimei R/L 01/17/1994 178/83 3 Kosuke Sakaguchi P Hokkai HS R/L 08/15/1999 186/80 4 Shunsuke Saitoh P JX-ENEOS R/R 01/07/1994 176/81 5 Shuto Sakurai P Nichidai Sanko HS L/L 06/25/1999 178/80 6 Koki Terada P Ishikawa Million Stars R/R 01/05/1992 175/73 7 Shumei Miyamoto IF Panasonic R/L 07/24/1996 176/81 8 Taishi Kusumoto IF Tohoku Fukushi Univ R/L 07/07/1995 180/77 9 Yudai Yamamoto C Shiga United R/R 09/11/1998 178/78 i1 Koh Nakagawa P Minoshima HS R/R 10/02/1999 178/79 Lions1 Daiki Tajima1 Hiromasa Saitoh P Meiji Univ L/L 06/03/1995 178/75 2 Manaya Nishikawa OF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/L 06/10/1999 180/78 3 Sho Itoh P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 02/10/1999 175/70 4 Kaima Taira P Yaeyama Shoko HS R/L 11/15/1999 173/80 5 Kaito Yoza P Gifu Keizai Univ R/R 09/15/1995 173/74 6 Ryusei Tsunashima IF Itoigakawa Hakurei HS R/L 01/21/2000 178/72 i1 Wataru Takagi OF Shinsokan HS R/L 12/06/1999 180/77 i2 Masato Saitoh C Hokkaido Kyoiku Univ R/L 08/07/1995 180/86 Tigers1 Kotaro Kiyomiya 1 Hisanori Yasuda1 Kosuke Baba P Sendai Univ R/R 05/18/1995 180/88 2 Haruto Takahashi P Asia Univ L/L 11/07/1995 179/80 3 Takahiro Kumagai IF Rikkio Univ R/R 11/10/1995 175/70 4 Kairi Shimada P Jobu Univ R/L 02/06/1996 175/72 5 Masaki Tanigawa P Kyushu Mitsubishi R/R 10/06/1992 175/76 6 Joichiro Maki P Keishin HS R/L 09/23/1998 181/81 i1 Masaki Ishii P Jobu Univ L/L 07/12/1995 180/82 Hawks1 Kotaro Kiyomiya 1 Hisanori Yasuda 1 Kosuke Baba1 Haruto Yoshizumi P Tsuruoka Higashi HS R/R 03/12/2000 185/85 2 Rei Takahashi P Senshu Univ R/R 11/02/1995 187/80 3 Shu Masuda OF Yokohama HS R/R 05/21/1999 185/83 4 Arata Shiino P Kokushikan Univ R/R 10/10/1995 194/88 5 Fumimaru Taura P Shugakukan HS L/L 09/21/1999 170/75 i1 Shuto Ogata P Ishikawa Gijuku HS R/L i2 Ukyo Shuutoh IF Nodai Univ Okhotsk R/L i3 Richard Sunakawa IF Okinawa Shogaku HS R/R i4 Kotaro Ohtake P Waseda Univ L/L i5 Yamato Higurashi OF Tachibana Gakuen HS L/L i6 Yuta Watanabe P Niigata Albirex L/L note: the Hawks provided very little detail on their ikusei and I haven't had time to research yet Carp 1 Shosei Nakamura C Koryo HS R/R 06/06/1999 181/77 2 Sho Yamaguchi P Kumamoto Kogyo HS R/L 07/13/1999 184/70 3 Brad Makoto Kenma P Nihon Bunri Univ R/R 06/05/1995 192/90 4 Atsushi Nagai OF Nishogakusha HS R/R 01/10/2000 178/91 5 Atsushi Endoh P Kasumigaura HS R/R 04/08/1999 186/74 6 Takato Hiraoka P Chubu Gakuin Univ R/R 08/05/1995 185/92 i1 Tsubasa Okabayashi P Komono HS (Mie) R/R 08/09/1999 183/85 i2 Reira Fujii P Omagari Kogyo HS R/R 09/17/1999 181/86 i3 Ken Sasaki P Okasa HS R/R 04/02/1999 189/78
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I've got my usual set of draft magazines, a whole ton of industrial league info, various high school stuff, and yet I still have no idea what will happen on draft day. There are a few players I have particular interest in; obviously Kohei Miyadai from Todai is the big question for me this year, and I wonder if my submarine boys Rei Takahashi (Senshu) and Yuya Hasegawa (Hosei) will get drafted at all. I also feel like there are more katakana names in the set than usual, such as RHP Brad Makoto Kenma from Nihon Bunri, Deshawn Hiroyuki Satoh (Whitlow?) from Yokohama Shogyodai, Mark Kento Ishida from Ryukoku... the high school set has a Richard Sunagawa who looks like a big kid from Okinawa Shogyo and a Felipe Kisu Desouza who was born in Japan to Brazilian parents. Also Montell Higuma, Julius's brother.
Anyway, hopefully the TBS stream will actually work this year, who knows. More hopefully, we'll get to see/hear my favorite college catcher and best smile on TV, Tomohiro Kiire, covering the draft for them. He's been tapped many times by their station to talk about Miyadai this semester, and I saw him a few times at Jingu when I was there this fall, so I can only hope :)
Otherwise I'll just be watching the picks come in on various news sources such as Nikkan Sports as usual.
1am! I've got a sketchy but reasonably stable video feed of the draft. Hopefully it'll work :)
Let's see, the order people walk in is the draft order:
Marines (big deal made about Iguchi coming in as new manager and all)
Swallows
Fighters
Dragons
Buffaloes
Giants (heh the announcers pointed out how they didn't make the playoffs.)
Eagles
Baystars (Rami-chan looking dapper and the whole thing about making the series after 19 years whee)
Lions
Tigers
Hawks
Carp
I would comment how every team is said to want to go after Kiyomiya but seriously I'm so sick of hearing about him I just hope the lottery is quick and painless and then we can get on with our lives :)
1:08am: okay, everyone is in there now. Let the fun begin!
(by which I really mean there are 6 minutes of commercials and then maybe some fun will begin. sheesh)
Okay, everyone's put in their first round picks. And the reveals!
Marines: Kotaro Kiyomiya, IF, Waseda Jitsugyo HS
Swallows: Kiyomiya
Fighters: Kiyomiya (fuuuuuuuuuck)
Dragons: Shosei Nakamura, C, Koryo HS
Buffaloes: Daiki Tajima, LHP, JR Higashinihon
Giants: Kiyomiya
Eagles: Kiyomiya
Baystars: Katsuki Azuma, LHP, Ritsumeikan Univ
Lions: Tajima
Tigers: Kiyomiya
Hawks: Kiyomiya
Carp: Nakamura
So that's 7 teams going for Kiyomiya, 2 for Tajima, 2 for Nakamura, and then Azuma goes to the Baystars uncontested. Good for them and for him :)
uhhh... I'm sorry for the delay.
the Fighters got Kiyomiya, which is my worst fucking nightmare, so I'm stalled a little while I deal with that fact. It's now 1:26am and Hiroshima got Nakamura.
Orix gets Tajima! Well, that's gonna be a JR East party for sure.
Okay, well, second round of the first round about to begin...
Marines: Hisanori Yasuda, IF, Riseisha HS
Swallows: Munetaka Murakami, C Kyushu Gakuin HS
Dragons: Hiroshi Suzuki, RHP, Yamaha
Giants: Murakami
Eagles: Murakami
Lions: Hiromasa Saitoh, LHP, Meiji Univ
Tigers: Yasuda
Hawks: Yasuda
The announcers make a really big deal about which hand Kanemoto puts into the box each time for some reason but... looks like Yasuda is going to Chiba Lotte (it's now 1:37am)
Giants: Takuya Kuwahara, RHP, Chuo University
Eagles: Hiroki Kondoh, RHP, Okayama Shogyo University
Tigers: Kosuke Baba, RHP, Sendai University
Hawks: Baba (wow, another runoff)
(...and the Tigers get Baba, okay)
Hawks: Haruto Yoshizumi, RHP, Tsuruoka East HS
So the first round is "done" at 1:45am. Fun times. Okay, time for me to start filling out the grid. Wake me up when Miyadai gets drafted, okay?
Long interview with Kiyomiya, he mentioned how he wants to go to the majors someday, the announcers were like "we hear you're studying English for it, wanna speak some?" and he was like "lol no that would be too embarrassing".
sigh
2:18am hey, Rakuten just took Masaki Iwami in the second round, I guess that's kind of a good thing, I would rather him be on the Fighters but well you know what happened so...
(also while entering data I noticed our second round pick Nishimura is exactly one year older than Kazunari Ishii because I just do that)
churning on...
2:21am: well my favorite college submariner Rei Takahashi got drafted!
...unfortunately, it was by the Hawks.
Also uh someone has to tell Rakuten that it is really not fair that they got Keio's Iwami AND Tsuyoshi Yamasaki from Kokugakuin, seriously.
So I went headsdown on the grid a whole lot and then at 3:20am the Fighters finally took Kohei Miyadai with their final and 7th pick and the entire evening has been worth it even if I'm still kind of bummed about where some people went. It was kind of funny because basically, I was translating, translating, then saw suddenly (24) Twitter and knew exactly what had to have happened (I follow a lot of Todai fans/players, and a lot of Fighters fans, and so there was quite a bit of confluence). Very happy to see it. Now the only question is: will he come to Arizona, and will I get a uniform made before then somehow? (I do feel like there's no real rush; I would be really surprised if he didn't spend a while in Kamagaya next year.)
A few stray thoughts as I wrap up for the evening:
On the foreign-ish players: Brad Kemna got drafted by the Carp, should be interesting to see how he fits in there, with Allen Kuri and all. That Felipe Kisu Desouza kid I mentioned got taken by the Buffaloes in the ikusei draft, and Ishida Mark Kento went to the Dragons, and Richard Sunagawa to the Hawks.
So many Big 6 alumni got drafted from industrial teams that I almost entered their college several times (Fukuda from Meiji->NTT, Shunsuke Saitoh from Rikkio->ENEOS, also Naoki Matsumoto Rikkio->Seino). Super glad to see Akihiro Wakabayashi (Hosei->ENEOS) got drafted even if it's by the Giants so he is now dead to me. Someone pointed out on Twitter that his college, industrial, and pro teams are all orange-colored, kinda funny.
It felt very weird to enter draftees who were born in 2000 for some reason.
Several indie/industrial teams had a whole bunch of people taken, like the Ishikawa Million Stars in the BCL, and the NTT corporate teams, and Hitachi and ENEOS and all (well ENEOS always has a bunch, but still).
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Tokyo Big 6 will have a trial Rookie League this semester
The rules on who could participate in the tournament was "1st and 2nd years" with no restrictions as far as I know, although in general, the purpose of the tournament was for players who wouldn't normally get playing time in league games to get a chance to play in some real games at Jingu and all, so if a team had a bunch of star freshmen, you wouldn't likely see them in the Rookie games.
On the other hand, the Rookie Tournament also gave managers the option to try interesting things -- Megumi Takemoto made her pitching debut at Jingu in the Fall 1999 Rookie Tournament as the first Japanese woman to ever take the mound in a Big 6 game. (The first woman was American Jodi Haller who pitched an inning for Meiji in 1995.) Two years after Takemoto's rookie debut, she would face off against Meiji's "female Matsuzaka", Chihiro Kobayashi, in a real league match.
Anyway, this year they're going to try something different and do an entire round-robin Rookie League, with 15 games total, each team playing every other team once. These games will be played mostly on weekends before normal Big 6 games, by the same pair of teams that play the first game that day (so you can see two games of Hosei-Waseda on April 9th, for example). The reason for this is mainly that underclassmen wouldn't really get much playing time even in the Rookie tournament, especially if they were on a team that got eliminated on the first day, so this is a way for younger players to get more playing time without sacrificing any playing time for the upperclassmen who are trying to show off in front of scouts and prospective corporate team employers. It's almost like a farm system!
http://www.big6.gr.jp/game/rookie/2017s/2017s_rookie_schedule.html
It sounds like for Todai, upperclassmen will be allowed to fill out the team. This is because Todai doesn't have suisen, or "athletic recommendations", as a route to attending the university and participating in sports, unlike the other 5 schools. The other 5 schools will have plenty of freshmen on their roster -- some of whom have been training with the university team since early in February. In a lot of these cases, they are players who played at Koshien or otherwise had bright baseball careers in high school, and were allowed into the university with either a reduced entrance exam or in some cases, no entrance exam at all, especially if they came in through a feeder high school.
Keio is the weird case in that everyone who graduates from Keio HS can automatically attend Keio University, although graduating from Keio HS is no small feat. I've also gotten the impression that it's rare for someone to not get into Hosei or Rikkio after graduating from their feeder schools (they just don't have that many). Whereas Waseda has many feeder schools all over the country, and so there's no guarantee that attending one will get you into Waseda.
So if you saw a star player at Koshien who didn't go into the draft, and wondered what happened to them, chances are they already got themselves accepted to a top sports college before the normal applications for admission were even open.
Todai will get freshmen on their team, once people show up at the university and decide to join the baseball team and all, but it won't be in time for the rookie league.
Here's the schedule, translated:
Date | Start Time | Matches | Regular Games After? | |
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4/9 (Sun) | 8:00am | Hosei-Waseda | H-W, M-T | |
4/15 (Sat) | 8:00am | Todai-Keio | T-K, R-H | |
4/16 (Sun) | 8:00am | Rikkio-Hosei | R-H, T-K | |
5/6 (Sat) | 8:00am | Hosei-Keio | H-K, T-R | |
5/7 (Sun) | 8:00am | Todai-Rikkio | T-R H-K | |
5/13 (Sat) | 8:00am | Keio-Meiji | K-M, R-W | |
5/14 (Sun) | 8:00am | Rikkio-Waseda | R-W, K-M | |
5/27 (Sat) | 9:00am | Todai-Meiji | Soukeisen | |
5/28 (Sun) | 9:00am | Keio-Waseda | Soukeisen | |
5/29 (Mon) | 11:00am | Waseda-Meiji | Keio-Rikkio | No, not even Swallows |
5/30 (Tue) | 11:00am | Todai-Waseda | Hosei-Meiji | |
5/31 (Wed) | 11:00am | Meiji-Rikkio | Hosei-Todai |
- They only go 9 innings tops
- It's ok if they end in a tie
- Games are valid after 5 innings
- New innings can't start after 1 hour and 50 minutes into the game, on days where there are normal Big 6 games afterwards
- Rainouts after a game has started will not be replayed; rainouts called before the game starts will be rescheduled at the end of the season.
- No tiebreak rules, unlike the normal rookie tournament (which had various tiebreak rules like starting extra innings with runners on base and such).
- Homeplate Tickets (1500 yen), Infield Tickets (1300 yen), and Student Infield Tickets (800 yen) are sold.
- Outfield tickets, cheering section tickets, and picnic tables are not sold or open for the Rookie games.
- If you have special passes to normal Big 6 games, those work to get into the Rookie League games.
- The normal league games begin immediately after the Rookie league games, so if you enter during the Rookie league game, you can just stay through to the normal league games.