# 2019 Nippon Professional Baseball draft

The 2019 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 17, 2019, for the 55th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Taisho Pharmaceutical with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by Lipovitan D ". It has been sponsored by Taisho Pharmaceutical for the seventh consecutive year since 2013.

## Summary

Only the first round picks will be done by bid lottery. From 2015 to 2018, the second round of Waiver priority was given to the lowest team in the regular season of the league who the most wins in the Interleague play, but from 2019, the Professional Baseball Executive Committee has decided that the Central League and the Pacific League will be given waiver priority alternately every other year, and in 2019 Central League received the waiver priority. From the third round the order was reversed continuing in the same fashion until all picks were exhausted.

## First Round Contested Picks

| | Player Name | Position | Teams Selected by |
| First Round | Roki Sasaki | Pitcher | Fighters, Marines, Eagles, Lions |
| First Round | Yasunobu Okugawa | Pitcher | Swallows, Tigers, Giants |
| First Round | Takaya Ishikawa | Infielder | Buffaloes, Dragons, Hawks |
| Second Round | Ryusei Kawano | Pitcher | Buffaloes, Fighters |
| Second Round | Tetsu Miyagawa | Pitcher | Giants, Lions |
* Bolded teams indicate who won the right to negotiate contract following a lottery.
* In the first round, Masato Morishita (Pitcher) was selected by the Carp and Keito Mori (Infielder) by the Baystars without a bid lottery.
* In the second round, Junya Nishi (Pitcher) was selected by the Tigers , Hiroto Kobukata (Infielder) by the Eagles, and Naoki Satoh (Outfielder) by the Hawks without a bid lottery.
* In the thrird round, Hiroya Miyagi (Pitcher) was selected by the Buffaloes, and Kenshin Hotta (Pitcher) by the Giants without a bid lottery.
* List of selected players.

## Selected Players

Key :
| * | Player did not sign |
* The order of the teams is the order of second round waiver priority.
* Bolded After that, a developmental player who contracted as a registered player under control.
* List of selected players.

### Tokyo Yakult Swallows

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Yasunobu Okugawa | Pitcher | Seiryo High School |
| #2 | Daiki Yoshida | Pitcher | Nippon Sport Science University |
| #3 | Koki Sugiyama | Pitcher | Sōka University |
| #4 | Hiroki Ohnishi | Pitcher | Osaka University of Commerce |
| #5 | Hideki Nagaoka | Infielder | Yachiyo Shoin High School |
| #6 | Ryusei Takeoka | Pitcher | Kosei High School |

### Orix Buffaloes

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Hiroya Miyagi | Pitcher | Konan High School |
| #2 | Kotaro Kurebayashi | Infielders | Suruga General High School |
| #3 | Ryota Muranishi | Pitcher | Kindai University |
| #4 | Yuito Mae | Pitcher | Tsuda Gakuen High School |
| #5 | Shoki Katsumata | Infielder | International Budo University |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Kazuma Satoh | Pitcher | Yokohama Hayato High School |
| #2 | Futa Tanioka | Pitcher | Takeda High School |
| #3 | Yuito Nakata | Pitcher | Osaka Tōin High School |
| #4 | Yamato Hirano | Outfielder | Nissho Gakuen High School |
| #5 | Ryoya Tsurumi | Catcher | Tokiwa University High School |
| #6 | Seiichiro Ohshita | Outfielder | Hakuoh University |
| #7 | Yugo Satoh | Outfielder | Sendai University |
| #8 | Masayuki Matsuyama | Pitcher | Toyama GRN Thunderbirds |

### Chunichi Dragons

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Takaya Ishikawa | Infielder | Toho High School |
| #2 | Yuki Hashimoto | Pitcher | Osaka University of Commerce |
| #3 | Yuichiro Okano | Pitcher | Toshiba |
| #4 | Yuya Gunji | Catcher | Keio University |
| #5 | Yuki Okabayashi | Pitcher | Komono High School |
| #6 | Ryushin Takeuchi | Pitcher | Sapporo Sosei High School |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Hiroaki Matsuda | Pitcher | Nagoya University |

### Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Ryusei Kawano | Pitcher | JFE Steel Western Japan |
| #2 | Kazuaki Tateno | Pitcher | Tokai Rika |
| #3 | Kyohei Ueno | Infielder | Kyoto International High School |
| #4 | Kenya Suzuki | Pitcher | JX Eneos |
| #5 | Daiki Mochizuki | Pitcher | Sōka University |
| #6 | Yuki Umebayashi | Catcher | Hiroshima Bunka Gakuen University |
| #7 | Shoto Kataoka | Outfielder | Higashi Nippon International University |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Hakuto Miyata | Outfielder | Fukuoka University |
| #2 | Ryunosuke Higuchi | Infielder | Niigata Albirex BC |
| #3 | Ryota Hasegawa | Pitcher | Niigata Albirex BC |

### Hiroshima Toyo Carp

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Masato Morishita | Pitcher | Meiji University |
| #2 | Koki Ugusa | Outfielder | Hosei University |
| #3 | Hiroto Suzuki | Pitcher | Kasumigaura High School |
| #4 | Yuya Nirasawa | Infielder | Hanasaki Tokuharu High School |
| #5 | Tomoki Ishihara | Catcher | Tenri University |
| #6 | Shogo Tamamura | Pitcher | Nyu High School |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Taiki Mochimaru | Catcher | Asahikawa University High School |
| #2 | Motohide Kinoshita | Outfielder | Tsuruga Kehi High School |
| #3 | Takamasa Une | Pitcher | Kagawa Olive Guyners |

### Chiba Lotte Marines

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Roki Sasaki | Pitcher | Ofunato High School |
| #2 | Toshiya Satoh | Catcher | Toyo University |
| #3 | Akito Takabe | Outfielder | Kokushikan University |
| #4 | Rikuto Yokoyama | Pitcher | Senshu University Matsudo High School |
| #5 | Koki Fukuda | Infielder | Hosei University |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Fumiya Motomae | Pitcher | Hokusho University |
| #2 | Shota Ueda | Catcher | Keio University |

### Hanshin Tigers

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Junya Nishi | Pitcher | Soshi Gakuen High School |
| #2 | Kouta Inoue | Outfielder | Riseisha High School |
| #3 | Masaki Oyokawa | Pitcher | Yokohama High School |
| #4 | Jo Endo | Infielder | Tokai University Sagami High School |
| #5 | Kento Fujita | Catcher | Chukyo University Chukyo High School |
| #6 | Ippei Ogawa | Pitcher | Tokai University |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Dan Onodera | Outfielder | Osaka University of Commerce |
| #2 | Kouta Okuyama | Outfielder | Shizuoka University |

### Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Hiroto Kobukata | Infielder | Osaka Gas |
| #2 | Fumiya Kurokawa | Infielder | Chiben Gakuen Wakayama High School |
| #3 | Taisei Tsurusaki | Pitcher | Keio University |
| #4 | Atsuki Mutoh | Outfielder | Miyakonojo Higashi High School |
| #5 | Yoma Fukumori | Pitcher | Kyushu Sangyo University |
| #6 | Ryota Takinaka | Pitcher | Honda Suzuka |
| #7 | Kei Mizugami | Catcher | Akashi Commercial High School |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Yuto Egawa | Catcher | Oita High School |
| #2 | Shinri Komine | Pitcher | Kagoshima Josei High School |
| #3 | Maaki Yamazaki | Infielder | University of Hawaiʻi |
| #4 | Kiyoharu Sawano | Infielder | Homare High School |

### Yokohama DeNA Baystars

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Keito Mori | Infielder | Toin Gakuen High School |
| #2 | Yuya Sakamoto | Pitcher | Ritsumeikan University |
| #3 | Hiromu Ise | Pitcher | Meiji University |
| #4 | Junpei Azuma | Catcher | Chiben Gakuen Wakayama High School |
| #5 | Hayato Tanabe | Infielder | Kaisei High School |
| #6 | Tatsuo Ebina | Infielder | Aomori University |
| #7 | Sota Asada | Pitcher | Ariake High School |

### Fukuoka Softbank Hawks

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Naoki Satoh | Outfielder | JR West |
| #2 | Takashi Umino | Catcher | Tokai University |
| #3 | Yuki Tsumori | Pitcher | Tohoku Fukushi University |
| #4 | Jui Kobayashi | Infielder | Tokai University Sapporo High School |
| #5 | Tatsuru Yanagimachi | Outfielder | Keio University |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Soichiro Ishizuka | Catcher | Kurosawajiri Technical High School |
| #2 | Tomohisa Ohzeki | Pitcher | Sendai University |
| #3 | Daisuke Itoh | Infielder | Hachinohe Gakuin Kosei High School |
| #4 | Haruki Katsuren | Infielder | Konan High School |
| #5 | Hidetora Funakoshi | Outfielder | Johoku High School |
| #6 | Shota Araki | Infielder | Chiharadai High School |
| #7 | Shun Murakami | Pitcher | Yamagata Chuo High School |

### Yomiuri Giants

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Kenshin Hotta | Pitcher | Aomori Yamada High School |
| #2 | Ryu Ohta | Pitcher | JR East |
| #3 | Hirokazu Kikuta | Outfielder | Joso Gakuin High School |
| #4 | Haruto Inoue | Pitcher | Maebashi Commercial High School |
| #5 | Shinnosuke Yamase | Catcher | Seiryo High School |
| #6 | Kaito Itoh | Outfielder | Sakata Minami High School |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Hayato Hirama | Infielder | Tokushima Indigo Socks |
| #2 | Sota Katoh | Outfielder | Saitama Musashi Heat Bears |

### Saitama Seibu Lions

| Pick | Player Name | Position | Team |
| #1 | Tetsu Miyagawa | Pitcher | Toshiba |
| #2 | Shota Hamaya | Pitcher | Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems |
| #3 | Kouki Matsuoka | Pitcher | Saitama Musashi Heat Bears |
| #4 | Ryota Kawano | Infielder | Kyushu Gakuin High School |
| #5 | Sena Tsuge | Catcher | Honda Suzuka |
| #6 | Hiroki Inoue | Pitcher | Nihon University Daisan High School |
| #7 | Towa Uema | Pitcher | Tokushima Indigo Socks |
| #8 | Junichiro Kishi | Outfielder | Tokushima Indigo Socks |
| Developmental Player Draft ||||
| #1 | Toshihiro Idei | Pitcher | Kanagawa University |