Professional baseball scout “This year’s draft is going to be amazing” “There are about 35 Dora 1 candidates” Reminds me of 1989 or 1996… Will it be the best draft ever? – Draft meeting | Professional baseball – Number Web

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About 35 “Dora 1” candidates

“Are there about 30 top (up to 2nd place) candidates for the next draft?”

“Eh, wait a minute… No, there are about 35 of us.

I had such a conversation with the scouts at Matsuyama Botchan Stadium at the end of last year.

Until the fall of last year, they weren’t yet a “compassionate” draft candidate, so scouts were only looking at the players’ “strengths.” However, the fiscal year has changed, and as we repeatedly inspect the players in actual battles as candidates for this year, it is now the turn to see “flaws and issues”.

people look at people It seems to be common in any “human relationship” that the more the number of times you do it, the more you can see the other person’s fault.

So, it’s normal for the number of candidates to decrease as the season progresses in a typical year, but what about this year?

Nonetheless, as in previous years, there will be some athletes who will take a step back this spring due to the problems they face, so after subtracting the number, Nirami, who was a rough candidate for the top candidates of “30 to 35 people” last fall, said, “Current situation. Do you mean “maintain”?

“University pitcher” human resources are amazing

Then, I would like to take a bird’s eye view of this year’s amateur baseball world from the perspective of “2023 draft top candidates”.

First of all, “high school” is a powerful existence of “1st place candidate” rather than a top candidate.Yugo Maeda (pitcher, Osaka Toin)reigns supreme, and the impression is that the players chasing after them are slightly left behind.

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