2012 Nippon Professional Baseball draft
The 2012 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 25, 2012, for the 48th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Toshiba with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by TOSHIBA ".It has been sponsored by Toshiba for the 4th consecutive year since 2009.
Shintaro Fujinami, who was nominated and bid lottery for by four teams.
Shintaro Fujinami is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Oakland Athletics and Baltimore Orioles, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Hanshin Tigers.
Fujinami with the Mets in 2024
Fujinami with the Tigers in 2013
Fujinami with the Tigers in 2016