Pitching-rich Hawks snag most sought-after player in draft

Pitching-rich Hawks snag most sought-after player in draft

Kimiyasu Kudo, manager of the Pacific League baseball club SoftBank Hawks, smiles at a hotel in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2016, after his lottery win of Soka University right-hander Seigi Tanaka in Nippon Professional Baseball's annual amateur draft. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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