Baseball: Giants draft 14-yr-old junior high student as development player

The Yomiuri Giants selected 14-year-old junior high school catcher Rentaro Seki with their fifth pick in Thursday's developmental draft, making him the youngest player ever chosen in Japanese professional baseball.The previous record belonged to pitcher Kento Tsujimoto, drafted by the Hanshin Tigers at age 15 in 2004. Seki attends junior high school in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, and represented Japan at this year's Under-15 Baseball World Cup.Seki is the first junior high school student ever selected in a Japanese professional baseball draft, including the developmental draft, according to a sou…READ FULL ARTICLE