2019 Nippon Professional Baseball Draft | |
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General information | |
Sport | Baseball |
Date(s) | October 17, 2019 |
Location | Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa, Tokyo |
Network(s) | TBS (first round), sky-A |
Sponsored by | Taisho Pharmaceutical |
Overview | |
107 total selections in 16 (Includes draft for developmental players) rounds | |
League | Nippon Professional Baseball |
First round selections | Roki Sasaki Yasunobu Okugawa Takaya Ishikawa |
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.[1] 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 ".[1] It has been sponsored by Taisho Pharmaceutical for the seventh consecutive year since 2013.[1]