2011 Nippon Professional Baseball Draft | |
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General information | |
Sport | Baseball |
Date(s) | October 27, 2011 |
Location | Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa, Tokyo |
Network(s) | TBS (first round), sky-A |
Sponsored by | Toshiba |
Overview | |
98 total selections in 16 (Includes draft for developmental players) rounds | |
League | Nippon Professional Baseball |
First round selections | Takahiro Fujioka Shuhei Takahashi Tomoyuki Sugano |
The 2011 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 27, 2011, for the 47th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB. It was arranged with the special cooperation of Toshiba with official naming rights. The draft was officially called "The Professional Baseball Draft Meeting supported by TOSHIBA." It has been sponsored by Toshiba for the 3rd consecutive year since 2009.[1][2]