2025 Nippon Professional Baseball draft

The 2025 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 23, 2025, for the 61st 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 13th consecutive year since 2013.^[1]

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 who receive multiple nominations result in a drawing of the lots between the nominating teams. The losing teams of the lottery resubmit 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 Central 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]

On August 29, 2025, NPB Commissioner Katsuhiko Nakamura announced that players eligible for the upcoming 2026 Major League Baseball draft draft were also eligible for the 2025 NPB draft. Most notably, this includes Rintaro Sasaki, who opted to play college baseball at Stanford instead of entering the NPB draft. Nakamura commented that "we have also confirmed with MLB. He will be eligible for our (draft), and if MLB selects him the following year, it will be possible to negotiate with either side. We have confirmed this. We have answered inquiries from each team. There was a question at the executive committee meeting in July, so we have provided an explanation to all 12 teams."^[4]

• Bolded teams indicate who won the right to negotiate a contract following a lottery.

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• The order of the teams is the order of second round waiver priority.
• Bolded After that, a developmental player who contracted as a registered player under control.

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