2019 NPB Amateur Draft

The 2019 NPB draft was held October 17, 2019.

First Round - initial picks[edit]

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Rakuten Golden Eagles	Roki Sasaki	P	Iwate Prefectural Ofunato High School (HS)	Lost lottery for Sasaki to Chiba Lotte
Yokohama BayStars	Keito Mori	IF	Toin Gakuen High School (HS)
Orix Buffaloes	Takaya Ishikawa	IF	Toho High School (HS)	Lost lottery rights for Ishikawa to Chunichi
Chunichi Dragons	Takaya Ishikawa	IF	Toho High School (HS)	Won lottery rights for Ishikawa over Orix and Softbank
Seibu Lions	Roki Sasaki	P	Iwate Prefectural Ofunato High School (HS)	Lost lottery for Sasaki to Chiba Lotte
Hiroshima Carp	Masato Morishita	P	Meiji University (Col.)
Chiba Lotte Marines	Roki Sasaki	P	Iwate Prefectural Ofunato High School (HS)	Won lottery rights to Sasaki over Seibu, Rakuten and Nippon Ham
Hanshin Tigers	Yasunobu Okugawa	P	Seiryo High School (HS)	Lost lottery rights for Okugawa to Yakult
Nippon Ham Fighters	Roki Sasaki	P	Iwate Prefectural Ofunato High School (HS)	Lost lottery for Sasaki to Chiba Lotte
Yomiuri Giants	Yasunobu Okugawa	P	Seiryo High School (HS)	Lost lottery rights for Okugawa to Yakult
Softbank Hawks	Takaya Ishikawa	IF	Toho High School (HS	Lost lottery rights for Ishikawa to Chunichi
Yakult Swallows	Yasunobu Okugawa	P	Seiryo High School (HS)	Won lottery rights for Okugawa over Yomiuri and Hanshin

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Rakuten Golden Eagles	Hiroto Kobukata	IF	Kindai University (Col.)
Orix Buffaloes	Ryusei Kawano	P	JFE West Japan (Ind)	Lost lottery for Kawano to Nippon Ham
Seibu Lions	Tetsu Miyagawa	P	Toshiba (Ind)	Won lottery for Miyagawa over Yomiuri
Hanshin Tigers	Junya Nishi	P	Soshi Gakuen High School (HS)
Nippon Ham Fighters	Ryusei Kawano	P	JFE West Japan (Ind)	Won lottery for Kawano over Orix
Softbank Hawks	Naoki Sato	OF	JR West Japan (Ind)
Yomiuri Giants	Tetsu Miyagawa	P	Toshiba (Ind)	Lost lottery for Miyagawa to Yomiuri

Team	Player	Position	School (Type)	Notes
Orix Buffaloes	Hiroya Miyagi	P	Konan High School (HS)
Yomiuri Giants	Kenshin Hotta	P	Aomori Yamada High School (HS)

Akito Takabe (Chiba Lotte, 3rd rd), Yuki Okabayashi (Chunichi, 5th rd), Hideki Nagaoka (Yakult, 5th rd)

Source: NPB.com