Monday, November 19, 2007

Dude! Tadano! (aka NPB College/Industry Draft Liveblogging)

The college/industry draft is going on! Yay!

This year all 12 teams picked between three guys for their top choice.
Yakult chose Mikinori Katoh of Keio astoundingly unchallenged.
The Giants, Tigers, Fighters, Hawks, Baystars and Buffaloes all went after Toyodai's Shota Oba.
The Dragons, Carp, Marines, Lions, and Eagles all chose Aichi Kogyo's Kouhei Hasebe, who is currently on the Japanese olympic team.

And the winners were Softbank for Oba, and Rakuten for Hasebe. Wheee! The biggest news to me though is that the Fighters took Kazuhito Tadano in the first round! How cool is that?

I'll translate this as the draft is happening and I'll fill in info in the rest of the chart as I go along. Some of these guys were profiled in Shube but a lot of them weren't.

I'm getting draft info from Sportsnavi but bio info from Shube and elsewhere.


Name Pos Univ/Company B/T DOB Ht/Wt Hometown
-------------------- --- ------------ --- ---------- -------- --------

Giants
1 Tooru Murata P Osaka Taiiku R/R 05/20/1985 181/75 Osaka
x Junpei Sonoda
x Shota Oba

3 Yuuki Furukawa P Meiji Univ L/L 04/05/1985 170/63 Saitama
4 Ryuuichi Kajimae OF Tokai Univ R/R 04/06/1985 175/80 Nara

Dragons
1 Sohma Yamauchi P Meijo Univ R/R 07/01/1985 181/77 Aichi
x Kouhei Hasebe
3 Tetsuya Tani IF Hitachi R/R 07/09/1985 180/76 Tokushima

Tigers
1 Hirokazu Shiranita P Fukuoka Univ R/R 10/02/1985 187/80 Fukuoka
x Kouhei Hasebe
3 Shunsuke Ishikawa P Jobu Univ R/R 08/12/1985 184/82 Tochigi
4 Yuusuke Kuroda P Chanson Keshohin

Baystars
1 Futoshi Kobayashi P JR Higashinihon R/R 05/11/1983 182/76 Gunma
x Shota Oba
3 Kentarou Kuwahara P Nara Univ R/R 10/29/1985 182/75 Mie

Carp
1 Junpei Sonoda P Nihon Univ L/L 04/20/1985 186/72 Gunma
x Kouhei Hasebe
3 Tetsuya Kokubo IF Aoyama Gakuin U R/R 04/12/1985 175/77 Osaka
4 Ryuhei Matsuyama OF Kyushu Kokusai U L/R 09/18/1985 176/80 Kagoshima

Swallows
1 Mikinori Katoh P Keio Univ L/L 06/04/1985 179/75 Kanagawa
3 Yuuji Onizaki IF Fujijuu (Subaru) L/R 04/07/1983 177/72 Saga
4 Hidehiro Okamoto P JFE Nishinihon L/L 04/19/1983 177/70 Tokushima
5 Toshihiro Nakao OF JR East L/R 11/12/1982 178/77 Fukuoka
6 Masayoshi Miwa IF Kagawa L/R 01/23/1984 168/69 Yamaguchi

Nakao: JR East info
Miwa: Shikoku Island League, Kagawa Olive Guyners


Fighters
1 Kazuhito Tadano P Sacramento (AAA) R/R 04/25/1980 182/82 Tokyo
x Yasutaka Hattori
x Shota Oba

3 Naoki Miyanishi P Kwansei Gakuin U L/L 06/02/1985 177/74 Hyogo
4 Kazuya Murata OF Chuo Univ L/R 07/23/1985 165/65 Chiba

Marines
1 Yasutaka Hattori P Toyota L/L 09/10/1982 174/71 Tokushima
x Kouhei Hasebe
3 Tomohisa Nemoto P Yokohama Shodai U L/L 03/21/1986 178/78 Fukushima
4 Yoshihiro Itoh P JR Tokai R/R 06/02/1982 177/75 Fukuoka
5 Yuuta Shimoshikiryoh P Nihon Seimei R/R 05/04/1983 184/75 Osaka

Hawks
1 Shota Oba P Toyo Univ R/R 06/27/1985 182/77 Chiba
3 Yuuki Kume P Meiji Univ R/R 09/10/1985 180/75 Gunma

Eagles
1 Kouhei Hasebe P Aichi Kogyo Univ L/L 05/21/1985 173/67 Aichi
3 Tadashi Ishimine C Tokyo Joho Univ L/R 06/22/1985 178/78 Okinawa
4 Ryo Hijirisawa OF Kokugakuin Univ L/R 11/03/1985 179/72 Nagano

Lions
1 Masamitsu Hirano P JR East Tohoku R/R 06/28/1983 186/78 Saitama
x Yasutaka Hattori
x Kouhei Hasebe

3 Ryohei Fujiwara P Daiichi Kodai Univ R/R 02/15/1986 181/80 Hyogo

Hirano: JR East roster
(Sportsnavi says 平野将利 but I believe it is actually spelled 平野将光)
Fujiwara: kyushu nikkansports

Buffaloes
1 Kenji Kobayashi P Aoyama Gakuin Univ R/R 07/03/1985 184/84 Yamanashi
x Junpei Sonoda
x Shota Oba

3 Hiroyuki Oze OF Kinki Univ L/R 09/02/1985 180/73 Kagawa

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