Sakurai picked by Giants in NPB draft

Pitcher Toshiki Sakurai of Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, western Japan, is congratulated by his friends on Oct. 22, 2015, after the Central League's Yomiuri Giants secured the negotiating rights to him in Nippon Professional Baseball's amateur draft. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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