2005 NPB Amateur Draft

The 2005 NPB draft was held on October 3 and November 18, 2005. It was the first year that the draft was split into High School Phase and College & Industrial Phase.

First Round - High School Phase - initial picks

Team	Player	Position	School	Notes
Rakuten Golden Eagles	Hiroshi Katayama	P	Hotoku Gakuen High School	Won lottery rights for Katayama over Hiroshima
Yokohama BayStars	Shun Yamaguchi	P	Yanagigaura High School
Orix Buffaloes	Takanobu Tsujiuchi	P	Osaka Toin High School	Lost lottery rights for Tsujiuchi to Yomiuri
Chunichi Dragons	Ryosuke Hirata	OF	Osaka Toin High School
Seibu Lions	Ginjiro Sumitani	C	Heian High School
Hiroshima Carp	Hiroshi Katayama	P	Hotoku Gakuen High School	Lost lottery rights for Katayama to Rakuten
Chiba Lotte Marines	Masatoshi Yanagida	P	Aomori Yamada High School
Hanshin Tigers	Naoto Tsuru	P	Kindai University High School
Nippon Ham Fighters	Dai-Kang Yang	IF	Fukuoka Daiichi High School	Won lottery rights for Yang over Softbank
Yomiuri Giants	Takanobu Tsujiuchi	P	Osaka Toin High School	Won lottery rights for Tsujiuchi over Orix
Softbank Hawks	Dai-Kang Yang	IF	Fukuoka Daiichi High School	Lost lottery rights for Yang to Nippon Ham
Yakult Swallows	Kyohei Muranaka	P	Tokai University Kofu High School

First Round - High School Phase - redraft Part 1

Team	Player	Position	School	Notes
Hiroshima Carp	Masamitsu Suzuki	OF	Yugakkan High School
Orix Buffaloes	Takahiro Okada	OF	Riseisha High School
Softbank Hawks	Yuta Arakawa	C	Nihon University High School

First Round - College & Industrial Phase

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Rakuten Golden Eagles	Shingo Matsuzaki	P	Tohoku Fukushi University (Col.)
Yokohama BayStars	Kazuya Takamiya	P	Honda Suzuka (Ind)
Orix Buffaloes	Yoshihisa Hirano	P	Kyoto Sangyo University (Col.)
Chunichi Dragons	Kazuki Yoshimi	C	Toyota (Ind)
Seibu Lions	Hironori Matsunaga	P	Mitsubishi Nagasaki (Ind)
Hiroshima Carp	Give Up
Chiba Lotte Marines	Give Up
Hanshin Tigers	Minoru Iwata	P	Kansai University (Col.)
Nippon Ham Fighters	Tomoya Yagi	P	Soka University (Col.)
Yomiuri Giants	Satoshi Fukuda	P	Tohoku Fukushi University (Col.)
Softbank Hawks	Nobuhiro Matsuda	IF	Asia University (Col.)
Yakult Swallows	Shinichi Takeuchi	P	Waseda University (Col.)