'Concentration of Attention' 2024 KBO Rookie Draft to Watch TVing Live
Sep 10, 2024
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The 2025 KBO Rookie Draft will be held at Lotte Hotel World Crystal Ballroom in Seoul at 2 p.m. on September 11, and will be conducted in a full draft method. The nomination will continue from round 1 to round 11, followed by Kiwoom-Hanwha-Samsung-Lotte-KIA-Doosan-NC-SSG-KT-LG, which is the reverse order of the team's ranking in 2023. Through the invitation, 100 baseball fans are also expected to visit the site to add heat.
This year's rookie draft targets total 1,197, consisting of 840 prospective high school graduates, 286 prospective college graduates, 56 early draft applicants, and 15 other players, including overseas flax and professionals. In particular, from this draft, players from the KBO Next-Level Training Camp, which is being held by KBO to intensively foster amateur prospects, are expected to be drafted for the first time.
In the '2025 KBO Rookie Draft', in accordance with the agreement that allowed the club to exchange the right of nomination for the following year with the player in a trade, Kiwoom, which received the right of nomination through the previous trade, will exercise the first and third round nominations held by NC and the third round nominations held by SSG. LG plans to exercise the fifth round of nomination rights that Lotte had. In other words, Kiwoom and LG secured three and one more nomination rights, respectively.
If all clubs exercise their right to nominate under these rules, Kiwoom will appoint 14 players, LG 12 players, SSG and Lotte 10 players each, NC 9 players, and other clubs 11 players, a total of 110 players will step into the KBO league.
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