Giants take Yokohama High ace Shoki Oda as the draft's first round settles
Nippon-Ham won the rights to Yamanashi Gakuin's Komoda, a pitcher who wants to keep hitting as a professional.
The Yomiuri Giants used their first-round pick at Thursday's professional baseball draft on Shoki Oda, the pitcher from Yokohama High School. No other team bid for him in the first round.12
The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters won the negotiating rights to Komoda, a pitcher from Yamanashi Gakuin High School. Komoda has said he wants to continue as a two-way player, pitching and batting, in the professional game.3
A familiar path
Nippon-Ham is the club that developed Shohei Ohtani as a two-way player before his move to Major League Baseball, a history that NHK pointed to after the pick.3
Teams now open contract talks with their picks. The full list of selections, including development-squad players, was published by the clubs and major sports outlets on Thursday evening.12
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- 1Nikkei2026ドラフト指名選手一覧 織田翔希を巨人が1位指名
- 2Baseball Channel2026年プロ野球ドラフト会議 12球団指名選手一覧
- 3NHKプロ野球ドラフト会議 山梨学院高 菰田投手 日本ハムが交渉権
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