NPB News: First-Year Player Draft
Lost in all the hoopla of today's amateur draft are the young men who won't be going first, tenth or even fiftieth. Many of them will probably never make Nippon Professional Baseball League rosters, but one and all will be spurred on by the possibility that someday they'll be playing on a championship club. <Orix:team#284>, <Yokohama:team#291>, <Hanshin:team#288>, <Saitama:team#286> and <Chunichi:team#287> will have the first five choices. BNN analysts report that these players are likely to be high picks in the 2032 draft:


1. <Eitoku Ueda:player#3306>, 20 year-old reliever out of college.
2. <Hideki Jouda:player#3270>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
3. <Nobusuke Fukui:player#3288>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
4. <Tsuramatsu Yamamoto:player#3252>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.
5. <Mitsuoki Kouda:player#3290>, 22 year-old second baseman out of college.
6. <Yasuoka Miyakawa:player#3298>, 18 year-old left fielder out of high-school.
7. <Matsu Miyake:player#3273>, 21 year-old third baseman out of college.
8. <Ikku Noda:player#3304>, 18 year-old starting pitcher out of high-school.
9. <Jin Nishi:player#3286>, 18 year-old shortstop out of high-school.
10. <Razan Yamamoto:player#3248>, 21 year-old starting pitcher out of college.