It was draft day for NPB today. Officially it's the 2017 draft but since I started mislabelling the draft some years back based on what's on the back of BBM's baseball cards I'm going to call it the 2018 draft. As usual
Deanna pulled an all nighter to
live blog the draft and
Gen has
the round by round lists up as well.
I was kind of surprised to still be doing these posts since it's been four years now since BBM last did a set for the Tokyo Big Six league. But there was actually someone drafted out of the industrial leagues who appeared in one of those sets. There's also the virtual cards from the
Tokyo Rocks app - all five players who were drafted out of the Tokyo Big Six league today had cards in both last year's and this year's "sets" (this year's set is actually split between spring and fall versions - they issued another 66 cards in early September. I only have cards for two of the drafted players from the fall set).
One thing I did not check was if any of the former Tokyo Big Six players taken out of the industrial leagues had cards in Tokyo Rocks 2016 set.
Masaki Iwami, Keio (Eagles #2)
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| 2016 Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Spring Tokyo Rocks |
Takahiro Kumagai, Rikkio (Tigers #3)
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| 2016 Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Spring Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Fall Tokyo Rocks |
Kohei Miyadai, Tokyo (Fighters #7)
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| 2016 Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Spring Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Fall Tokyo Rocks |
Kotaro Otake, Waseda (Hawks #4)
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| 2016 Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Spring Tokyo Rocks |
Hiromasa Saitoh, Meji (Lions #1)
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| 2016 Tokyo Rocks |
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| 2017 Spring Tokyo Rocks |
Shunsuke Saitoh, Rikkio by way of JX-ENEOS (Baystars #4)
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| 2013 BBM Tokyo Big Six #28 |
I'm not positive about this but I believe that Miyadai was the first player drafted from Tokyo University since Takahiro Matsuka was taken by the Baystars in the ninth round of the 2004 draft.
