The Nippon Professional Baseball Draft Meeting is a conference held by the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization to select rookie players. The official name of the conference is the Rookie Selecti
Draft meeting (2012)
Developmental Player System
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The Developmental Player System is a system that allows players to be held for the purpose of training players separately from the 70 registered players under control of each team created in the fall
Nippon Professional Baseball draft
…the right to negotiate contracts with rookie players based on the procedures stipulated in the Rookie Player Selection Meeting Rules. The draft for Developmental players Selection Meeting will also be held on the same day at the same venue. However, this meeting will only be held if the total number of players selected…
Pitcher Shō Ishikawa, wearing the distinctive three-digit uniform number unique to players in the Developmental Player System.
Kodai Senga with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks