Draft meeting Kinki University Sato is expected to be nominated for 1st place by 3 or more teams October 26, 6:27

A draft meeting of professional baseball will be held on the 26th.

With the influence of the new coronavirus limiting the opportunities for players to appeal, it is expected that three or more teams will nominate one of the university's leading smashers, Teruaki Sato of Kinki University, and which team will have the right to negotiate. It will be noticed whether it will be acquired.

This year's draft meeting will be held online with 12 rooms for each team to prevent infection with the new coronavirus.



If the nominations are duplicated in 1st place, the representative of each team will move to the lottery venue and the lottery will be held.



With the influence of the new coronavirus, the opportunities for players to appeal are limited, and the presence of college students playing in the reopened league match is increasing.



Of these, Kinki University's Sato, who broke the total home run record for Kansai Student Baseball, has announced that Orix, Softbank, and the giant have been nominated for the first place, and is the fastest pitcher in the autumn league match. Lotte and Yakult have announced the No. 1 nomination for 155-kilometer pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa of Waseda University.



In addition, pitcher Omi Ito of Tomakomai Komazawa University, who has the fastest speed of 156 kg, is a local Nippon-Ham Fighter.



It has been announced that pitcher Hiroto Takahashi of Aichi Chukyo University Chukyo High School, who is also regarded as the number one high school student, will be nominated by the local Chunichi in first place.



In addition, the so-called "Tazawa Rule" has been abolished, in which players who refuse to be nominated at a draft meeting and contract with an overseas baseball team cannot contract with a professional baseball team for a certain period of time even if they return to Japan.



For this reason, pitcher Junichi Tazawa, who contributed to the World Series title as a middleman in the Red Sox of the Major League Baseball in 2013 and has been playing in the independent league BC League Saitama since July, may be nominated.



The draft meeting will be held in Tokyo from 5 pm on the 26th.