The 2011 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft was held on October 27, 2011, for the 47th time at the Grand Prince Hotel Takanawa to assign amateur baseball players to the NPB.

It was arranged with the special cooperation of Toshiba with official naming rights.

[7] When the fighters won the lots, the audience cheered and applauded.

The reason for this was the backlash from the fans after the Giants publicly announced the players they wanted to pick in the first round and used it as a way to deter other teams, picking Hisayoshi Chono in 2009 and Hirokazu Sawamura in 2010 by themselves.

The Sugano pick sparked a debate about the significance of the draft system.