2024 Nippon Professional Baseball draft

2024 Nippon Professional Baseball Draft
Rui Muneyama, who was nominated by five different teams in the first round bid lottery.
General information
SportBaseball
DateOctober 24, 2024
LocationGrand Prince Hotel Takanawa, Tokyo
NetworksTBS (first round), sky-A
Sponsored byTaisho Pharmaceutical
Overview
123 total selections in 13 (Includes draft for developmental players) rounds
LeagueNippon Professional Baseball
First round selectionsRui Muneyama
(Nominated by 5 teams.)
Yumeto Kanemaru (Nominated by 4 teams.), Mishō Nishikawa
(Nominated by 2 teams.), Yusei Ishizuka, Reo Shibata
(Nominated by 2 teams in re-draft.)

The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 24, 2024, for the 60th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB.[1] It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D ".[1] It has been sponsored by Taisho Pharmaceutical for the 12th consecutive year since 2013.[1]

Format

The first round of the draft is conducted via a bid lottery, where every team submits bids for players they'd like to draft. Players that receive multiple nominations result in a drawing of the lots between the nominating teams. The losing teams of the lottery re-submit selections until they get a player without any nominations. Starting from the second round, teams will select in reverse order of the standings, alternating between Central League and Pacific League teams. This year, the Pacific League will have priority.[2] From the third round the order was reversed continuing in the same fashion until all picks were exhausted.[3] The draft ends when all teams are "selected" or when the total number of selected players reaches 120.[3]

Following the expansion of the Eastern League and Western League to include the independent Niigata Albirex Baseball Club and Kufu HAYATE Ventures Shizuoka, respectively, it was announced that players in both clubs were eligible for the draft.[4][5]

First Round

Player name Position Teams selected by
First Nomination Rui Muneyama OF Lions, Eagles, Carp, Fighters, Hawks
First Nomination Yumeto Kanemaru LHP Dragons, BayStars, Tigers, Giants
First Nomination Mishō Nishikawa OF Marines, Buffaloes
First Nomination Yuto Nakamura RHP Swallows
Second Nomination Yusei Ishizuka IF Lions, Giants
Second Nomination Reo Shibata RHP Fighters, Hawks
Second Nomination Yūsuke Mugitani OF Buffaloes
Second Nomination Takato Ihara LHP Tigers
Second Nomination Tai Sasaki IF Carp
Second Nomination Yu Takeda IF BayStars
Third Nomination Hiroto Saitō IF Lions
Third Nomination Taito Murakami RHP Hawks
  • Bolded teams indicate who won the right to negotiate contract following a lottery.

List of selected players.[6]

Selected Players

Key
* Player did not sign

Chiba Lotte Marines

Pick Player name Position Team
1 Mishō Nishikawa LHP Aoyama Gakuin University
2 Ryūsei Miyazaki INF Yamaha Baseball Club
3 Rikima Ichijō RHP Toyo University
4 Haru Sakai RHP Kanto Daiichi High School
5 Kōshirō Hiroike RHP Kyushu Tokai University
6 Yū Tatematsu C/INF Nippon Life Baseball Club
Developmental Player Draft
1 Tsuyoshi Tanimura INF Wakayama Higashi High School
2 Yūta Ibaragi RHP Teikyo Nagaoka High School
3 Kōsuke Nagashima RHP Fuji University

Chunichi Dragons

Round Player name Position Team
1 Yumeto Kanemaru LHP Kansai University
2 Seiya Yoshida LHP Seiyo Transportation Baseball Club
3 Shunta Mori LHP Toko Gakuen High School
4 Yuta Ishii C Nippon Life Baseball Club
5 Kōsuke Takahashi LHP Otaru Hokusho High School
6 Keito Arima RHP St. Catherine's Academy High School
Developmental Player Draft
1 Naiki Nakamura INF Miyazaki Prefectural Miyazaki Commercial High School
2 Kenya Inoue RHP Kagoshima Jitsugyō High School

Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks

Round Player name Position Team
1 Taito Murakami RHP Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School
2 Yūdai Shōji INF Kanagawa University
3 Shun Antoku RHP Fuji University
4 Shinjirō Uno INF Waseda Jitsugyo High School
5 Sōma Ishimi INF Aichi Institute of Technology Meiden High School
6 Shunsuke Iwasaki RHP Toyo University
Developmental Player Draft
1 Ryo Furukawa* RHP Nihon Gauken High School
2 Zairen Sobukawa INF Hamamatsu Commercial High School
3 Sou Ohtomo C Ibaraki Astro Planets
4 Yūki Hirose INF Municipal Matsudo High School
5 Shinichirō Kawano LHP Miyakazi Gakuen High School
6 Tōya Kawaguchi RHP Tokushima Indigo Socks
7 Kenshirō Tsukayama RHP Kobe International University Affiliated High School
8 Yūta Aihara RHP Sendai University
9 Kōichirō Okada RHP Osaka University of Commerce
10 Kōha Gyofu OF Tohoku Fukushi University
11 Hayato Kinoshita OF Chiba University of Economics Affiliated High School
12 Taiga Kumagai LHP Toryo High School
13 Dan Shioji RHP Ishikawa Prefectural Monzen High School

Hanshin Tigers

Round Player name Position Team
1 Takato Ihara LHP NTT West Japan Baseball Club
2 Yuki Kesamaru RHP Hōtoku Gakuen High School
3 Rito Kinoshita RHP Kyushu Mitsubishi Motors Baseball Club
4 Hayato Machida C Saitama Musashi Heat Bears
5 Taiyo Sano INF Toyama GRN Thunderbirds
Developmental Player Draft
1 Taisei Kudo RHP Tokushima Indigo Socks
2 Rinshiro Shimamura C Kōchi Fighting Dogs
3 Daiki Hayakawa RHP Kufu HAYATE Ventures Shizuoka
4 Toshiaki Kawasaki INF Ishikawa Million Stars

Hiroshima Toyo Carp

Round Player name Position Team
1 Tai Sasaki INF Aoyama Gakuin University
2 Ryūnosuke Satō LHP Fuji University
3 Shun Okamoto RHP Konan University
4 Yuto Watanabe INF Fuji University
5 Harun Kikuchi RHP Chiba Gakugei High School
Developmental Player Draft
1 Tsubasa Kobune RHP Chitoku High School
2 Kaito Takeshita LHP Tsuruga Kehi High School
3 Toshiki Yasutake C Shizuoka University

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Round Player name Position Team
1 Reo Shibata RHP Fukuoka University Ohori High School
2 Ryūsei Fujita LHP Tokai University Sagami High School
3 Tamon Asari RHP Meiji University
4 Daiki Shimizu RHP Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School
5 Shū Yamagata INF Waseda University
6 Kōtarō Yamashiro RHP Hosei University
Developmental Player Draft
1 Sorato Kawakatsu RHP Seiko Gakuin High School
2 Junki Shibuya LHP Hokkaido Obihiro Agricultural High School

Orix Buffaloes

Round Player name Position Team
1 Yūsuke Mugitani OF Fuji University
2 Naruki Teranishi RHP Nippon Sport Science University
3 Reo Yamaguchi RHP Sendai Ikuei Gakuen Senior High Schoo
4 Ryōma Yamanaka C Mitsubishi Heavy Industries East Baseball Club
5 Reiji Higashiyama RHP ENEOS Baseball Club
6 Raiku Katayama RHP NTT East Japan Baseball Club
Developmental Player Draft
1 Tomoki Imasaka INF Osaka Gakuin University High School
2 Musashi Shimizu INF Tochigi Golden Braves
3 Taiga Uehara RHP Hanasaki Tokuei High School
4 Seiichi Teramoto OF Hiroshima University of Economics
5 Kōsuke Tajima C Shinano Grandserows
6 Kento Inui RHP Kasumigaura High School

Saitama Seibu Lions

Round Player name Position Team
1 Hiroto Saitō INF Kanazawa High School
2 Seiya Watanabe OF Osaka University of Commerce
3 Shōma Kariu RHP Oita Prefectural Saiki Kakujo High School
4 Lin Kuan-Chen OF Japan University of Economics
5 Hibiki Shinohara RHP Fukui University of Technology Affiliated Fukui High School
6 Haruki Tatsuyama C Enagic Sports High School
7 Teruki Koga INF Chikuma River Baseball Club
Developmental Player Draft
1 Yamato Fuji LHP Omiya Higashi High School
2 Taiyō Satō INF Kanagawa University
3 Ramal Geevin Ratanayake INF Osaka Tōin High School
4 Sou Satoh LHP Seisa Dohto University
5 Haruto Sawada OF Kyoto International High School
6 Haruma Fukuo INF Ishikawa High School (School Corporation)
7 Okem Mei Umebinyuo OF Asahikawa-shihō High School

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

Round Player name Position Team
1 Rui Muneyama INF Meiji University
2 Kazuto Tokuyama LHP International Pacific University
3 Haruto Nakagomi RHP Tokushima Indigo Socks
4 Masahiro Ehara RHP Nippon Steel Stainless Baseball Club
5 Tsubasa Yoshinoh OF Waseda University
6 Yang Po-hsiang INF Ibaraki Astro Planets
Developmental Player Draft
1 Yūya Kishimoto INF Nara University High School

Tokyo Yakult Swallows

Round Player name Position Team
1 Yuto Nakamura RHP Aichi Institute of Technology
2 Nikita Moiseev OF Toyokawa High School
3 Kota Shoji LHP Sega Sammy Baseball Club
4 Haruto Tanaka INF Takasaki University of Health and Welfare Takasaki High School
5 Taijiro Yano C Ehime Mandarin Pirates
Developmental Player Draft
1 Tatsunori Negishi INF North Carolina A&T
2 Yu Hirosawa RHP Ehime Mandarin Pirates
3 Shunsuke Shimokawa RHP Niigata Albirex Baseball Club
4 Ryunosuke Matsumoto C Sakai Shrikes

Yokohama DeNA BayStars

Round Player name Position Team
1 Yu Takeda RHP Mitsubishi Heavy Industries West Baseball Club
2 Kentaro Shinogi RHP Hosei University
3 Hibiki Katoh INF Tokushima Indigo Socks
4 Naoki Wakamatsu RHP Kochi Fighting Dogs
5 Manato Tanai INF Okayama Sanyo High School
6 Kasuga Sakaguchi RHP Kokugakuin University
Developmental Player Draft
1 Daiki Kobari OF Nihon University Tsurugaoka High School
2 Haru Yoshioka RHP Tokushima Prefectural Ananhikari High School
3 Kōki Kanabuchi LHP Hachinohe Institute of Technology's First High School

Yomiuri Giants

Round Player name Position Team
1 Yusei Ishizuka INF Hanasaki Tokuei High School
2 Shunsuke Urata INF Kyushu Industrial University
3 Yū Aramaki INF Jobu University
4 Juza Ishida RHP Hokusei Gakuen University Affiliated High School
5 Shunsuke Miyahara LHP Tokai University Shizuoka Campus
Developmental Player Draft
1 Tatsuya Sakamoto C Fuji University
2 Shotaro Horie RHP Bunsei University of Art Affiliated High School
3 Keishin Suzuki RHP Yokohama So-Gakukan High School
4 Shido Fukita RHP Hirosaki Gakuin Seiai High School
5 Ayumu Nishikawa LHP Yamamura Gauken High School
6 Raia Takeshita INF Meitoku Gijuku High School

References

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Preceded by
2023 		Nippon Professional Baseball draft Succeeded by
2025
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