The active player draft will be held on the 9th. Seiya Hosokawa, who moved from DeNA to Chunichi through the active player draft, has achieved 20 Home Run for three consecutive years, and Kotaro Otake, who moved from Softbank Hawks to Hanshin Tigers, has also established himself in the starting rotation. Last year's active player draft saw Eito Tanaka move to The Giants, which led to his big breakout season.

Looking at the performance of Hosokawa and Otake, both from the first active draft class, in the year before their transfers, Hosokawa, in his final year with DeNA in 2022, played in 18 games but only hit one Home Run, although Home Run did hit 11 Home Run, ranking 6th in the Eastern League. Otake, in his final year with Softbank Hawks, made two starts in the first team, but pitched in 14 games in the farm league, with a record of 4 wins and 1 loss and ERA 2.87.

Shun Mizutani, who transferred from Softbank Hawks to Nippon-Ham in the second active player draft, recorded the highest batting average in interleague play in his first year with the team last season, and this season he has made great strides in his new team with career highs of 12 Home Run and 41 RBI. In 2023, his final year with Softbank Hawks, he played in 83 games in the farm team and recorded 35 RBI, the fourth highest on the team.

Eito Tanaka, who had a career-high season with The Giants, appearing in 62 games and recording 36 hold with ERA of 2.13, had a different record last season with Nippon-Ham. Last season, he appeared in 3 games for the first team with ERA of 11.25, but in the farm league, he appeared in 29 games with a record of 5 wins, 2 losses, and 1 save, and ERA of 2.35.

Looking at players who have made a breakthrough through the active player draft, we can see that although they have had few opportunities to play in the first team and have not performed particularly well in the farm team, they have still achieved some results.