Here's a table. I'll fill it in as I go along tonight/tomorrow.
The first round was simple enough (only 2 runoffs) that I'm not going to bother including it since you can tell from the table. The most interesting thing to happen during the draft IMO was the Fighters indeed attempting to draft Gosuke Katoh (an American-born Japanese, he has to be drafted to play in Japan, and was last seen in the Mets minor-league system).
Status: Done. I had done everything except tediously extract the Hawks ikusei height/weight numbers and someone did it for me on Reddit.
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
5 comments:
Interesting pick of Gosuke Katoh to Fighters. Any thoughts on that? I haven’t been following his story and couldn’t find anything in English about him being in the NPB draft.
Sorry to be late replying to this. He posted to Twitter (in Japanese) the day after like "hey, I'm honored that the Fighters drafted me but I am still under contract to the Mets so I'll be figuring out my best options in the next couple of days."
Not sure much has been mentioned of it in English except the draft nerds on Twitter and Reddit?
Thank you, maybe he was just as surprised as everyone else. I saw it here first then tried to find some info about him. I assume the Fighters now hold his rights going forward if he ever does consider NPB.
Exciting year for Julio and the M’s, were you following them?!
NPB draft rights are only good until the end of March. If Kato doesn't sign with the Fighters he'll need to be drafted again next year to enter NPB.
Thank you Kozo, if he doesn’t get a spring training invite they still might have an opportunity to get him then.
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