Comments on: Tokyo's 2008 Draft Picks

By: Garrett DeOrio

Garrett DeOrio — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:33:36 +0000

Yeah, good point there. Fielding was never his strong suit and that aspect is not improving a whole lot with age.

By: Christopher Pellegrini

Christopher Pellegrini — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:39:24 +0000

He needs to play for a Pacific League team so that he can just be the DH.

By: Garrett DeOrio

Garrett DeOrio — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:15:56 +0000

I don’t see Tokyo making a serious move to get him, if any attempt at all. Can’t say I’d really disagree.

By: Christopher Pellegrini

Christopher Pellegrini — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:45:03 +0000

39-year-old Tyrone Woods is now available (Japan Times article).

By: Garrett DeOrio

Garrett DeOrio — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:21:41 +0000

We’ll see what the club has in mind for 2009 by the way they play the FA card…

I keep my hopes up, but I’m sure I’ll be bitching once the deals are done.

By: John Lewis

John Lewis — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:28:00 +0000

Seems kind of strange that a 22 year old and a 26 year old get chosen via the “ikusei” draft and that 18 year olds get chosen in the earlier rounds.

Perhaps someone needs to define “ikusei” to the club?

We’ll see what the club has in mind for 2009 by the way they play the FA card…

By: Christopher Pellegrini

Christopher Pellegrini — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:28:42 +0000

At first I called it the “Training Draft”, but then I started looking around for a consensus on what to call it and couldn’t find one.

I’m pretty sure that I picked up supplementary from somewhere else, but I can’t seem to remember where. Anyway, I settled on supplementary because training doesn’t really differentiate from “development” (or something similar to that) as you mentioned in your comment.

I still don’t know which term is the best to use.

By: westbaystars

westbaystars — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:44:05 +0000

I always refer to the ??? as the “Educational Roster.” I’ve toyed with “Development Roster,” but that kind of describes the farm team’s purpose overall. Since those on the ??? are receiving an education rather than furthering their development, the teams can get away with paying them peanuts.

Did you come up with “Supplementary” on your own or did you get it from a more official looking site?

By: Tomnish

Tomnish — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:29:53 +0000

Chris, thanks for your reply.
I think there is another question: why did the Swallows picked Yagi up as the second(not the first) pick?

Anyway, the scout that made the comment belongs to the Carp.
As you know, their first pick was an outfielder.

They say the Tigers and the Orix were considering picking Yagi up, but after all the Orix picked up a right-handed pitcher and the Tigers picked up a corporate pitcher as their first pick, and the Swallows picked Yagi up as the second pick before them.

I guess they lowered his rank because he lost in the local baseball tournament and couldn’t go to Summer Koshien.
The point is that the Carp’s scout made the comment before that.

By: Christopher Pellegrini

Christopher Pellegrini — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:05:34 +0000

Me too.

He was one of our scouts, right? I’m actually kind of hoping that it was a scout from another team that said that, and that we managed to snag Yagi before they did.

But the question needs to be asked: if he was the best lefty in the draft, then how were we able to get him in the second round?