Hey everyone, welcome to my 19th year of translating the NPB draft. (Yes, I literally have been doing this since before some of the draftees were born.) If you're gonna use my translations elsewhere, can you at least link to me or let me know you're doing it?
Anyway, I've also been using the draft posts for a personal yearly update for anyone who used to read the blog: as I mentioned last year I was laid off from my job at Google in the first round of their huge layoff trend, and took off 2023 to decompress and spent most of it watching baseball in Japan, and since I didn't find a job in the US over the winter, went back to Japan this spring... and this year in addition to watching baseball all summer, I also job-hunted a bit and got a software engineering job in Tokyo. So, I'm actually in the US right now since I came back here for a week or two to get my work visa (you have to do it outside Japan) and I'm flying back in the morning and starting my new job next week. Therefore, might be a 12-hour delay on filling in any draft info that I don't have by the end of the evening. We'll see!
Happy to answer (reasonable) questions about the process for getting the highly skilled professional engineering visa in Japan, anyway, having just gone through it, if anyone reading this is in software/research and thinking about it.
As in recent years, I expect to mostly just translate as it comes in over the usual news sources; this year I didn't even buy any draft magazines. Nikkan Sports is my usual go-to, and I use draft-repo for high-school kids and the individual websites for colleges/companies for the others, when more obscure people get drafted and the major news outlets don't have their stats ready.
Name Pos HS/Univ/Company T/B DOB Ht/Wt -------------------- --- --------------- --- ---------- ------- Lionsx Rui Muneyama IF Meiji Univ R/L 02/27/2003 175/78 x Yusei Ishizuka IF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/R 04/06/2006 181/821 Hiroto Saitoh IF Kanazawa HS R/R 01/27/2007 181/76 2 Seiya Watanabe OF Osaka Shogyo Univ R/R 08/31/2002 178/88 3 Shoma Karyu P Saiki Kakujo HS R/R 12/25/2006 185/72 4 Kuanchen Lin (?) OF Japan Econ Univ R/R 12/30/2002 195/105 5 Hibiki Shinohara P Fukui Kodai HS R/R 09/20/2006 177/72 6 Haruki Tatsuyama C Enagic Sports HS R/R 05/13/2006 172/76 7 Teruki Koga IF Chikumagawa Club R/L 08/25/2000 176/76 (Lin is Taiwanese but has been in Japan for a while) Dragons 1 Yumeto Kanemaru P Kansai Univ L/L 02/01/2003 177/77 2 Seiya Yoshida P Seino Transportation L/L 05/23/2002 176/77 3 Shunta Mori IF Toko Gakuen HS R/L 12/25/2006 187/84 4 Yuta Ishii C Nihon Seimei R/R 08/18/2000 178/83 5 Kosuke Takahashi P Hokusho HS L/L 12/31/2006 178/80 6 Keito Arima P St Catherine HS (Ehime) R/R 09/20/2006 190/78 Buffaloesx Misho Nishikawa OF Aoyama Gakuin Univ R/R 03/25/2003 182/811 Yusuke Mugitani OF Fuji Univ R/L 07/27/2002 179/80 2 Naruki Teranishi P Nittai Univ R/R 10/18/2002 186/85 3 Reo Yamaguchi P Sendai Ikuei HS R/R 05/14/2006 193/95 4 Ryoma Yamanaka OF Mitsubishi Juko East R/L 12/14/2000 177/77 5 Reiji Higashiyama P ENEOS R/R 05/05/2000 179/85 6 Raiku Katayama P NTT East R/L 10/07/2002 177/84 Swallows 1 Yuto Nakamura P Aichi Tech (Aikodai) R/L 02/08/2003 176/80 2 Nikita Moiseyev OF Toyokawa HS L/L 11/29/2006 182/82 3 Kota Shoji P Sega Sammy L/L 05/22/2000 172/85 4 Haruto Tanaka IF Kendai Takasaki HS R/L 06/25/2006 181/81 5 Taijiro Yano C Ehime Mandarin Pirates R/R 05/22/2002 179/80 Eagles 1 Rui Muneyama IF Meiji Univ R/L 02/27/2003 175/78 2 Kazuto Tokuyama P Intl. Pacific Univ L/L 04/11/2002 177/87 3 Haruto Nakagomi P Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 01/23/2002 175/77 4 Masahiro Ehara P Nippon Stainless Steel R/R 08/03/2000 184/88 5 Tsubasa Yoshinoh OF Waseda Univ R/L 08/16/2002 180/85 6 Po-Hsiang Yang IF Ibaraki Astro Planets R/L 01/23/2005 173/64 Carpx Rui Muneyama IF Meiji Univ R/L 02/27/2003 175/781 Tai Sasaki IF Aoyama Gakuin Univ R/R 12/24/2002 177/77 2 Ryunosuke Satoh P Fuji Univ L/L 11/01/2002 179/83 3 Shun Okamoto P Konan Univ Okamoto R/L 06/12/2002 185/82 4 Yuto Watanabe C Fuji Univ R/R 07/07/2002 181/97 5 Harun Kikuchi P Chiba Gakugei HS R/R 01/21/2007 200/103 Marines 1 Misho Nishikawa OF Aoyama Gakuin Univ R/R 03/25/2003 182/81 2 Ryusei Miyazaki IF Yamaha R/L 12/09/2000 173/85 3 Rikima Ichijoh P Toyo Univ R/L 02/10/2003 189/82 4 Haru Sakai P Kanto Daiichi HS R/R 05/08/2006 178/78 5 Koshiro Hiroike P Tokaidai Kyushu Campus R/R 09/16/2002 185/85 6 Yu Tatematsu IF Nihon Seimei R/L 02/05/1999 177/84 Baystarsx Yumeto Kanemaru P Kansai Univ L/L 02/01/2003 177/771 Yu Takeda P Mitsubishi Juko West R/R 07/05/1999 184/96 2 Kentaro Shinogi P Hosei Univ R/L 05/07/2002 177/75 3 Hibiki Katoh IF Tokushima Indigo Socks R/R 06/15/2002 180/82 4 Naoki Wakamatsu P Kochi Fighting Dogs R/R 05/10/2000 183/82 5 Manato Tanai IF Okayama Sanyo HS R/R 178/75 6 Kasuga Sakaguchi P Kokugakuin Univ R/R 09/21/2002 178/80 Fightersx Rui Muneyama IF Meiji Univ R/L 02/27/2003 175/781 Reo Shibata P Fukuoka Ohhori HS R/L 04/18/2006 186/85 2 Ryusei Fujita P Tokaidai Sagami HS L/L 11/17/2006 198/96 3 Tamon Asari P Meiji Univ R/R 09/06/2002 186/84 4 Daiki Shimizu P Maebashi Shogyo HS R/R 07/17/2006 190/82 5 Shu Yamagata IF Waseda Univ R/R 05/01/2002 176/80 6 Kotaro Yamashiro P Hosei Univ R/R 09/03/2002 183/84 Tigersx Yumeto Kanemaru P Kansai Univ L/L 02/01/2003 177/771 Takato Ihara P NTT West L/L 08/07/2000 170/75 2 Yuki Hasamaru P Hotoku Gakuen HS R/R 06/02/2006 187/77 3 Rito Kinoshita P KMG Holdings R/R 01/27/2001 183/87 4 Hayato Machida C Musashi Heat Bears R/R 04/03/2003 186/88 5 Taiyo Sano IF Toyama GRN Thunderbirds R/R 02/14/2002 178/81 Hawksx Rui Muneyama IF Meiji Univ R/L 02/27/2003 175/78 x Reo Shibata P Fukuoka Ohhori HS R/L 04/18/2006 186/851 Taito Murakami P Kobe Koryo HS R/R 02/20/2007 180/73 2 Yudai Shoji IF Kanagawa Univ R/L 10/02/2002 178/73 3 Shun Antoku P Fuji Univ R/R 05/18/2002 177/82 4 Shinjiro Uno IF Waseda Jitsugyo HS R/R 07/05/2006 176/78 5 Soma Ishimi IF Aikodai Meiden HS R/L 06/10/2006 176/75 6 Shunsuke Iwasaki P Toyo Univ R/R 03/11/2003 178/78 Giantsx Yumeto Kanemaru P Kansai Univ L/L 02/01/2003 177/771 Yusei Ishizuka IF Hanasaki Tokuharu HS R/R 04/06/2006 181/82 2 Shunsuke Urata IF Kyushu Sangyo Univ R/L 08/30/2002 170/70 3 Yu Aramaki IF Jobu Univ R/L 12/23/2002 184/92 4 Juza Ishida P Hokusei HS R/R 07/21/2006 191/86 5 Shunsuke Miyahara P Tokai Univ Shizuoka L/L 09/12/2002 175/82
I think this year I'm not going to bother with the other stuff -- it doesn't matter after all the dust settles.
2 comments:
Old Reliable! Thanks again for doing this! Erik Schullstrom
Hey Erik! Congrats on captain Sasaki -- Carp must have had a lot of scouts at the Aoyama Gakuin games these last few years :)
(I think I went to more AGU games than any other college the last 2 years actually...)
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