2014 NPB Amateur Draft

The 2014 NPB draft was held October 22, 2014.

First Round - initial picks[edit]

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Rakuten Golden Eagles	Tomohiro Anraku	P	Saibi High School (HS)	Win lottery for Anraku over Yakult
Yokohama BayStars	Kohei Arihara	P	Waseda University (Col.)	Lost lottery for Arihara to Nippon Ham
Orix Buffaloes	Sachiya Yamasaki	P	Meiji University (Col.)
Chunichi Dragons	Ryosuke Nomura	P	Mitsubishi (Ind)
Seibu Lions	Kona Takahashi	P	Maebashi Ikuei High School (HS)
Hiroshima Carp	Kohei Arihara	P	Waseda University (Col.)	Lost lottery for Arihara to Nippon Ham
Chiba Lotte Marines	Shogo Nakamura	IF	Waseda University (Col.)
Hanshin Tigers	Kohei Arihara	P	Waseda University (Col.)	Lost lottery for Arihara to Nippon Ham
Nippon Ham Fighters	Kohei Arihara	P	Waseda University (HS)	Won lottery for Arihara's rights
Yomiuri Giants	Kazuma Okamoto	IF	Chiben Gakuen High School (HS)
Softbank Hawks	Yuki Matsumoto	P	The University of Morioka Affiliated High School (HS)
Yakult Swallows	Tomohiro Anraku	P	Saibi High School (HS)	Lost lottery for Anraku to Rakuten

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Hanshin Tigers	Yasuaki Yamasaki	P	Asia University (Col.)	Lost lottery for Yamasaki to Yokohama
Hiroshima Carp	Takayoshi Noma	OF	Chubu University (Col.)
Yokohama BayStars	Yasuaki Yamasaki	P	Asia University (Col.)	Won lottery rights for Yamasaki over Hanshin
Yakult Swallows	Shingo Takeshita	P	Yamaha (Ind)

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Hanshin Tigers	Yuya Yokoyama	P	Nippon Steel Kashima (Ind)

development phase Other notable picks: Ryoya Kurihara (Softbank, 2nd rnd), Yuma Mune (Orix, 2nd rnd), Shuta Tonosaki (Seibu, 3rd rnd), Toshihiko Kuramoto (Yokohama, 3rd rnd), Luciano Fernando (Rakuten, 4th rnd), Shun Ishikawa (Chunichi, 4th rnd), Masataka Iryo (Chunichi, 6th rnd), Issei Endo (Chunichi, 7th rnd), Ryota Ito (Rakuten, 7th rnd), Masahiro Nishino (Orix, 7th rnd)