Professional baseball player “active draft” strongly requested to introduce next year December 5th 18:49
A regular tournament for professional baseball players was held, and we decided to urge the 12 teams to introduce “active drafts” that will allow players who are not blessed to participate to other teams to be transferred from next year. .
34 players from 12 teams attended the regular tournament held in Chuo-ku, Osaka, and exchanged opinions on the draft of the active draft created by the NPB = Japan Baseball Organization at the request of the team. It was.
The active draft is a system that allows the active players listed to be transferred by other teams.
Each team also has a positive intention to introduce, and at the stage of reviewing the NPB proposal, NPB is expected to be able to introduce it next year at the earliest and at the latest again at the latest.
In discussions, the NPB proposed that the team could voluntarily list the target players, but the request was made, but there was no big objection. , We decided to urge you to introduce it from next year.
Giant Ginro Sugitani, who is the chairman of the championship, said, “All players agree that they want to run early. For baseball players, one year and one year will be a game, and one year will change their lives. I want you to do it from next year. "