Best/Worst Teams at Drafting and Developing Players?

I'd say that Orix is by far the worst at drafting and developing players. As of recent years, I think Chiba Lotte has been the best, which is almost certainly Bobby's influence. SoftBank has been very good/lucky at drafting pitchers, but their fielders have been very poor in recent years.

If we're talking from 1998-2004, though, the Hawks were untouchable. They had home grown talent with Matsunaka, Kokubo, Muramatsu, Kawasaki, Shibahara, Johjima, and Iguchi. Those are just the fielders. To this day, my favorite NPB season of all time is Iguchi's 2003 season in which he hit .340 with 27 homers, 109 RBIs, 112 runs, 81 walks, and 42 stolen bases. Just absolutely freakish numbers for a Japanese second baseman with as good of a glove as he had.

If it's the 1980s, there is nobody even close to matching those Seibu and Hanshin dynasties. Seibu was absolutely stacked with young sluggers and aces in the late '80s. They had a future hall of famer batting 9th every game in Hatsuhiko Tsuji. Koji Akiyama, who batted mostly in the middle of the order, would end up with 303 career steals to compliment his 437 homers. That's how much talent they had.

As far as Hanshin goes, that 1985 batting order is equal to the Big Red Machine in the majors. Absolutely legendary, and it seems that everyone had a career year.