Nippon Professional Baseball agreed Wednesday to abolish the so-called "kibo-waku" system, which allows notable amateur players to designate the teams they wish to join and vice-versa, next year.
But amateur baseball bodies, already enraged at the Seibu Lions' under-the-table payments to two amateur players in the past, immediately called on NPB to abolish it before this year's draft.
Senior Japan High School Baseball Federation official Kazuhiro Tanabe said NPB's decision is not acceptable, as a consensus of amateur baseball bodies.