Yomiuri Giants draft 14-year-old junior high catcher Rentaro Seki

The Mainichi 22 October 2026 1 min read Read and summarised by Claude, our robot with a library card. Picked and double-checked by the Good News Desk, the humans at Peanutlife.

In short

The Yomiuri Giants selected Rentaro Seki with their fifth pick in Thursday's developmental draft.
Seki is a 14-year-old junior high school catcher.
The selection makes him a development player for the club.

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Developmental drafts give young players a route into professional baseball before they are adults. Seki's selection shows a club choosing to invest in a player at junior high age. The source does not say what his contract or training plan involves.

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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Yomiuri Giants selected 14-year-old junior high school catcher Rentaro Seki with their fifth pick in Thursday's developmental dra

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A baseball team in Japan picked a 14-year-old boy named Rentaro Seki. He is a catcher, the player who crouches behind the batter. The team chose him as a development player, so he can keep learning and training. What would you like to practise most if you were on a team?

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