"The future of Lin Guanglai is finally about to be revealed!!!"
On October 15, 2012, just 10 days before the highly-anticipated 2012 rookie selection convention, baseball media keenly monitoring the draft of major popular players received invitations from Waseda Jitsugyo. They were invited to the campus of Waseda Industries the next day, where the nation's high school baseball star Lin Guanglai would announce his decision.
Although there were always rumors that Lin Guanglai had accepted an invitation from the Seattle Mariners, planning to head directly to the United States after graduation, no matter how credible those rumors were, they were merely hearsay in the end. It's important to note that Lin Guanglai, being the central figure, had never publicly expressed his stance since the news broke.
Journalists who received the invitations exchanged glances with people around them, unsure of what Waseda and Lin Guanglai were planning:
