The Japan Professional Baseball Players Association holds an extraordinary tournament, and NPB = Nippon Professional Baseball, which lists two or more players from each baseball team regarding the "active draft" that allows players who are not blessed with participation opportunities to transfer to other baseball teams. It has resolved to accept the draft of the organization and is expected to be held off this season.
The "Active Draft" is a system that allows players who are not blessed with participation opportunities to seek new opportunities to play, by allowing other teams to nominate active players listed by each team.
The players' association held an extraordinary tournament online on the 26th to discuss the draft of the "active draft" presented by the NPB.
In the draft, the team is supposed to list two or more players and always acquire one or more, and it is a mechanism that someone goes out and someone enters.
After the extraordinary tournament, Tadahito Mori, the secretary general of the players' association, who responded to the interview online, said that he had decided to accept the draft of the NPB. It's a situation where we can do it. "
In addition, at the Players Association, the number of years for acquiring FA = free agent rights will be unified from the conventional 8 years for domestic rights and 9 years for rights including overseas to 6 years. It also resolved to propose a reform plan to NPB.