◆2025 Professional baseball Draft Conference supported by Lipovitan D (23rd)
Softbank selected infielder Takahiro Suzuki from the amateur baseball club "CLUB REBASE" with the fifth pick in the development draft. He is 184 cm tall and weighs 93 kg. He is in his second year as infielder and joined CLUB REBASE after attending Fujisawa Seiryu High School in Kanagawa and Fuji University.
The team was just entering its second season since officially joining the JABA Tokyo baseball Association.
In the eighth round, they selected Hokuto Oyama, a right-handed pitcher from Chuo University with a maximum speed of 152 km/h. This unusual selection caused a stir in the stadium.
In the controlled draft, the team made a surprise selection of Stanford University infielder Rintaro Sasaki (20), causing a stir in the stadium, and after competing with DeNA, they won the negotiating rights.
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