The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 24, 2024, for the 60th 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 12th consecutive year since 2013.[1]
The first round of the draft is conducted via a bid lottery, where every team submits bids for players they'd like to draft. Players that receive multiple nominations result in a drawing of the lots between the nominating teams. The losing teams of the lottery re-submit selections until they get a player without any nominations. Starting from the second round, teams will select in reverse order of the standings, alternating between Central League and Pacific League teams. This year, the Pacific League will have priority.[2] From the third round the order was reversed continuing in the same fashion until all picks were exhausted.[3] The draft ends when all teams are "selected" or when the total number of selected players reaches 120.[3]
Following the expansion of the Eastern League and Western League to include the independent Niigata Albirex Baseball Club and Kufu HAYATE Ventures Shizuoka, respectively, it was announced that players in both clubs were eligible for the draft.[4][5]
First Round
| Player name | Position | Teams selected by |
| First Nomination | Rui Muneyama | OF | Lions, Eagles, Carp, Fighters, Hawks |
| First Nomination | Yumeto Kanemaru | LHP | Dragons, BayStars, Tigers, Giants |
| First Nomination | Mishō Nishikawa | OF | Marines, Buffaloes |
| First Nomination | Yuto Nakamura | RHP | Swallows |
| Second Nomination | Yusei Ishizuka | IF | Lions, Giants |
| Second Nomination | Reo Shibata | RHP | Fighters, Hawks |
| Second Nomination | Yūsuke Mugitani | OF | Buffaloes |
| Second Nomination | Takato Ihara | LHP | Tigers |
| Second Nomination | Tai Sasaki | IF | Carp |
| Second Nomination | Yu Takeda | IF | BayStars |
| Third Nomination | Hiroto Saitō | IF | Lions |
| Third Nomination | Taito Murakami | RHP | Hawks |
- Bolded teams indicate who won the right to negotiate contract following a lottery.
List of selected players.[6]
Selected Players
Key
| * |
Player did not sign |
|---|
Chunichi Dragons
| Round | Player name | Position | Team |
| 1 | Yumeto Kanemaru | LHP | Kansai University |
| 2 | Seiya Yoshida | LHP | Seiyo Transportation Baseball Club |
| 3 | Shunta Mori | LHP | Toko Gakuen High School |
| 4 | Yuta Ishii | C | Nippon Life Baseball Club |
| 5 | Kōsuke Takahashi | LHP | Otaru Hokusho High School |
| 6 | Keito Arima | RHP | St. Catherine's Academy High School |
| Developmental Player Draft |
| 1 | Naiki Nakamura | INF | Miyazaki Prefectural Miyazaki Commercial High School |
| 2 | Kenya Inoue | RHP | Kagoshima Jitsugyō High School |
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
| Round | Player name | Position | Team |
| 1 | Taito Murakami | RHP | Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School |
| 2 | Yūdai Shōji | INF | Kanagawa University |
| 3 | Shun Antoku | RHP | Fuji University |
| 4 | Shinjirō Uno | INF | Waseda Jitsugyo High School |
| 5 | Sōma Ishimi | INF | Aichi Institute of Technology Meiden High School |
| 6 | Shunsuke Iwasaki | RHP | Toyo University |
| Developmental Player Draft |
| 1 | Ryo Furukawa* | RHP | Nihon Gauken High School |
| 2 | Zairen Sobukawa | INF | Hamamatsu Commercial High School |
| 3 | Sou Ohtomo | C | Ibaraki Astro Planets |
| 4 | Yūki Hirose | INF | Municipal Matsudo High School |
| 5 | Shinichirō Kawano | LHP | Miyakazi Gakuen High School |
| 6 | Tōya Kawaguchi | RHP | Tokushima Indigo Socks |
| 7 | Kenshirō Tsukayama | RHP | Kobe International University Affiliated High School |
| 8 | Yūta Aihara | RHP | Sendai University |
| 9 | Kōichirō Okada | RHP | Osaka University of Commerce |
| 10 | Kōha Gyofu | OF | Tohoku Fukushi University |
| 11 | Hayato Kinoshita | OF | Chiba University of Economics Affiliated High School |
| 12 | Taiga Kumagai | LHP | Toryo High School |
| 13 | Dan Shioji | RHP | Ishikawa Prefectural Monzen High School |
Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters
| Round | Player name | Position | Team |
| 1 | Reo Shibata | RHP | Fukuoka University Ohori High School |
| 2 | Ryūsei Fujita | LHP | Tokai University Sagami High School |
| 3 | Tamon Asari | RHP | Meiji University |
| 4 | Daiki Shimizu | RHP | Gunma Prefectural Maebashi Commercial High School |
| 5 | Shū Yamagata | INF | Waseda University |
| 6 | Kōtarō Yamashiro | RHP | Hosei University |
| Developmental Player Draft |
| 1 | Sorato Kawakatsu | RHP | Seiko Gakuin High School |
| 2 | Junki Shibuya | LHP | Hokkaido Obihiro Agricultural High School |
Orix Buffaloes
| Round | Player name | Position | Team |
| 1 | Yūsuke Mugitani | OF | Fuji University |
| 2 | Naruki Teranishi | RHP | Nippon Sport Science University |
| 3 | Reo Yamaguchi | RHP | Sendai Ikuei Gakuen Senior High School |
| 4 | Ryōma Yamanaka | C | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries East Baseball Club |
| 5 | Reiji Higashiyama | RHP | ENEOS Baseball Club |
| 6 | Raiku Katayama | RHP | NTT East Japan Baseball Club |
| Developmental Player Draft |
| 1 | Tomoki Imasaka | INF | Osaka Gakuin University High School |
| 2 | Musashi Shimizu | INF | Tochigi Golden Braves |
| 3 | Taiga Uehara | RHP | Hanasaki Tokuei High School |
| 4 | Seiichi Teramoto | OF | Hiroshima University of Economics |
| 5 | Kōsuke Tajima | C | Shinano Grandserows |
| 6 | Kento Inui | RHP | Kasumigaura High School |
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
Yokohama DeNA BayStars
| Round | Player name | Position | Team |
| 1 | Yu Takeda | RHP | Mitsubishi Heavy Industries West Baseball Club |
| 2 | Kentaro Shinogi | RHP | Hosei University |
| 3 | Hibiki Katoh | INF | Tokushima Indigo Socks |
| 4 | Naoki Wakamatsu | RHP | Kochi Fighting Dogs |
| 5 | Manato Tanai | INF | Okayama Sanyo High School |
| 6 | Kasuga Sakaguchi | RHP | Kokugakuin University |
| Developmental Player Draft |
| 1 | Daiki Kobari | OF | Nihon University Tsurugaoka High School |
| 2 | Haru Yoshioka | RHP | Tokushima Prefectural Ananhikari High School |
| 3 | Kōki Kanabuchi | LHP | Hachinohe Institute of Technology's First High School |
Yomiuri Giants
| Round | Player name | Position | Team |
| 1 | Yusei Ishizuka | INF | Hanasaki Tokuei High School |
| 2 | Shunsuke Urata | INF | Kyushu Industrial University |
| 3 | Yū Aramaki | INF | Jobu University |
| 4 | Juza Ishida | RHP | Hokusei Gakuen University Affiliated High School |
| 5 | Shunsuke Miyahara | LHP | Tokai University Shizuoka Campus |
| Developmental Player Draft |
| 1 | Tatsuya Sakamoto | C | Fuji University |
| 2 | Shotaro Horie | RHP | Bunsei University of Art Affiliated High School |
| 3 | Keishin Suzuki | RHP | Yokohama So-Gakukan High School |
| 4 | Shido Fukita | RHP | Hirosaki Gakuin Seiai High School |
| 5 | Ayumu Nishikawa | LHP | Yamamura Gauken High School |
| 6 | Raia Takeshita | INF | Meitoku Gijuku High School |
