In order to revitalize the transfer of players who do not have the opportunity to play in professional baseball, the "Active Player Draft" will be held on the 8th, which will allow other teams to nominate and transfer active players listed by each club. Some of the players who transferred under this system, which was introduced last year, have gone on to play a major role in their new homes, and it will be interesting to see what kind of transfers will be made.
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Some players who have been very active after being transferred in the active draft
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The rules of the draft are also different from last year.
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Some players who have been very active after being transferred in the active draft
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The rules of the draft are also different from last year.
The "Active Player Draft" is a system that was first introduced last year to give players who do not have the opportunity to play a new opportunity to play by stimulating the transfer of players, and each club will be able to transfer the active players listed by other clubs by nominating them.
Some players who have been very active after being transferred in the active draft
Otake, who had a total of 10 wins in the previous year, won 12 in his first year as a transfer.
Last year, pitcher Kotaro Otake moved from SoftBank to Hanshin, and despite not having a win in the past two years, he won a career-high 2 games this season and contributed greatly to the team's No. 12 in Japan, while Seiya Hosokawa, who moved from DeNA to Chunichi, hit a team-leading 24 home runs.
Hosokawa, who had a total of six HRs in the previous year, had 6 in his first year as a transfer.
The "Active Player Draft" will be held online from 8 p.m. on the 1th behind closed doors, and only players who have been transferred will be announced.
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The rules of the draft are also different from last year.
[Each club lists players in advance]
Each club will list at least two players on the pending roster who are expected to sign contracts for next season. Players with an annual salary of 2 million yen or more are not eligible, but only one player can list players with an annual salary of 5000 million yen or more and less than 1 million yen, and in that case, a new rule has been established that three or more players must be added to the list of players with an annual salary of less than 5000 million yen.
This rule aims to further stimulate the transfer of players who are not fortunate enough to play by having as many players as possible listed in the active draft.
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players on the list will be shown to other clubs through NPB = Japan Baseball Organization in advance, and on the day of the event, each club will inform the chairman of the current draft meeting of the players they wish to acquire based on the list. The team to which the player with the most nominations from other teams belongs can be nominated first. Then, the team that nominated the player has the right to nominate the next player, and in principle, this process is repeated.
There is no bidding format like the rookie draft meeting, so there is no competition for designated players. The second round will be played only by the team of your choice, and will proceed in the reverse order of the first round. Every team has a system in which there is always one player and one player in the team.
Last year, when the tournament was held for the first time, only the first round was played, not the second round, and only 1 players were transferred under this system.
Foreign players, players with multi-year contracts, players with FA = free agent rights, players who have exercised in the past, and development players are not eligible for the list.