Perched in a room overlooking Yokohama High School’s baseball field, six members of the Yankees organization met with Shoki Oda in his native Japan on Tuesday.

A coveted 18-year-old pitching prospect, Oda was drafted by the Yomiuri Giants in the first round of the Nippon Professional Baseball draft last month. However, he is not expected to sign with them. Instead, Oda has been meeting with MLB teams as he looks to take his talents to the United States fresh out of high school.

While Brian Cashman wouldn’t talk about the Yankees’ sit-down with Oda at the GM Meetings this week, their contingent included international scouting director Mario Garza, supervisor of global acquisitions Matt Slater, Pacific Rim coordinator Nao Masamoto, and scout Alex Sunderland, a team source told the Daily News. Minority owner Soichiro Minami and senior director of pitching Sam Briend also gave the Yankees representation from ownership and player development, helping them stand out a bit from Oda’s other summits.

Yokohama manager Hiroaki Murata and Oda’s mother also attended the gathering, which lasted roughly two hours and received paparazzi-like treatment from Japanese media outside the school.

It is unclear if the Yankees made Oda a formal offer during their get-together.

“We had a productive meeting,” Garza, declining to share specifics, told The News during a brief phone call. “Really, really enjoyed it. It was my second time at Yokohama High School, and everybody was very welcoming and accommodating. It was very productive.”

While Garza didn’t want to detail the meeting, the source said that the Yankees left feeling more “hopeful” about their chances with Oda than they’ve been previously. That said, they mentioned that it’s tough to get a sense of where the Bombers stand with so many teams vying for Oda’s services.

The Tigers, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Phillies, Mets and Rangers have also met with Oda, but more meetings are expected, including one with the Dodgers. The righty, who would begin his career in the minors if he joins an MLB team, is not eligible to sign until Jan. 15, 2027, meaning Oda would be part of next year’s international signing class.

According to the source, the Yankees’ presentation leaned heavily into player development. With Briend, one of their pitching gurus, present, they discussed ways to maximize Oda’s potential and scrawny 6-1 frame, which is already capable of throwing over 97 mph.

“I truly believe in our development,” the source said, “and if that’s a deciding factor, then I feel good about the information we put forward.”

Oda is not the only Japanese amateur on the Yankees’ radar.

The source said that they have also been scouting and “would love to sign” Kosei Hiroike, a right-hander from Keio University. While not considered a top prospect like Oda, Hiroike can hit 97 mph, too. He went unselected in the NPB draft last month after making his own MLB ambitions known.

Even if the Yankees, who haven’t successfully courted a Japanese star since Masahiro Tanaka signed in 2014, don’t land these pitchers, their recruitment efforts are part of a bigger picture.

Garza, promoted to his position last January after his predecessor, Donny Rowland, misspent millions in Latin America, has been hellbent on diversifying the amateur pool from which the Yankees find international talent. He has been especially focused on the Asian markets while also dabbling in Europe.

“I want people to know that we care about Asia,” Garza told The News in June after the Yankees inked Taiwanese pitching prospect Chien-Fan Lai. The teenager became the third amateur free agent in franchise history from Taiwan, and the first Asian amateur that the club had signed in 12 years.

The Yankees also anticipate signing Korean third baseman Seong Chul Cho and Taiwanese right-hander Yu-Hsun Chen as part of the 2027 class, and they’ve revamped their international scouting department with an eye on Asia. The latest example came last month when they hired former MLB and NPB pitcher Frank Herrmann to the role of supervisor of global evaluation and player development integration.

While it remains to be seen if the Yankees will pursue any big league-ready players looking to come stateside this offseason — Cashman noted on Tuesday that the org sends scouts to cover NPB every month — they seem to be moving in the right direction on the amateur side when it comes to Asia.

“We’re trying to keep a renewed global footprint — that’s the term that I’ve used — where we’re trying to make sure we’re looking under every rock and trying to make sure that we’re finding players that will mesh well with our player development system,” Garza said in June. “I believe that Asian players from [Japan, Korea and Taiwan] match up really well with the things that we can develop well, and some of the things that we haven’t been able to develop well yet.”