Chapter 20: Mentor and Apprentice Confidant (3rd Watch)

"Are there any people on the team at Qingdao High School that need special attention?"

Nakakyo's coach Nojiri asked first-year backup pitcher Yuhiko Hashimoto, who is also the team manager. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 InfoAlthough he had studied the video footage of Seido High School several times, he wanted to hear Hashimoto's opinion.

As the captain and ace of the national team for three consecutive years, not to mention his skills, Hashimoto's rich game experience and understanding of baseball alone is an immeasurable wealth.

Nojiri laughs when he thinks that no one cares about such a player when he graduated from middle school. I don't know if those wealthy high schools are funny and let such a big pie smash on their heads.

Here we want to explain the life trajectory of Yuyan Hashimoto. Because he is also an important character in this book for three years in a row, every year.

After losing in the third round of the last junior high school national competition, Hashimoto was not as strong as before. The national team seat was also replaced......

Although he ranked second among the top ten star players of the same year, he was even crowned king in the title. But at that time, there were already faint rumors that he was exhausted, and objectively speaking, his biggest characteristic, Jiugongge's ball control power had gradually lost its previous deterrent.

In secondary school, most players focused on improving their power and speed, and only pursued ball control and change when the conditions were right. Therefore, at that time, Hashimoto Yuyan, who could control the ball and score into the nine-square grid, was very valued, and even occupied the position of the ace pitcher of the national team with this ability.

However, this was limited to the middle school years, and once I entered high school, the situation changed immediately. These people, who have spent all three years of their youth on baseball, will not miss any opportunity to improve their pitching no matter what. Super ball speed mainly depends on talent, although it can be improved in the later stage, but there is only a limit to what can be improved. Unable to increase the speed of the ball, they can only devote all their energy to carving the ball.

Pitchers who can throw the ball into a nine-square grid are rare in middle school, but in high school, there are not 100 but 80. In this case, Hashimoto's ability to take on the throne doesn't look so dazzling.

This even directly caused the embarrassing situation that Hashimoto Yuyan encountered when he graduated from high school.

At that time, it was not without high schools that invited them, but these high schools were either at the bottom of Koshien or the top eight or four in the fierce battle zone. None of the real giants made an invitation to the former national team junior baseball ace pitcher.

As a baseball player who has always lived under the aura of the public, Hashimoto Yuyan naturally has his own ideals and pursuits. Some teams that can't satisfy his desires, of course he can't look down on. may satisfy his desires, but people look down on him.

So, it's embarrassing~

The ace pitcher of the national team, after graduating from middle school, he couldn't find a suitable home.

It was at this time that Nakyo University and Nakakyo High School appeared.

Coach Nojiri personally invited him and promised to start making him an ace in the fall of the year.

As a regular in the Koshien quarterfinals, Nakakyo is barely on Hashimoto's shortlist. So the two sides hit it off, and Yuyan Hashimoto became the substitute pitcher of Nakakyo Dainakyo.

With the dream of competing for the Koshien championship, Coach Nojiri and Yuhiko Hashimoto hit it off, and the two have a similar understanding of baseball, and the exchange of various tactics and training methods is barrier-free.

Yuhiko Hashimoto successfully became Coach Nojiri's follower, and his disciple also served as the team manager to assist the coach in training.

In the first year, he assisted the coach to train the players, and in a sense, Hashimoto Yuyan also created a miracle that was not big or small.

Okay, let's drag the time back.

Coach Nojiri asked Hashimoto if there were any players to keep an eye on, and Hashimoto was tempted to say that all of them needed attention. Of course, this is not possible, no matter how high the average strength of a team is, there can always be one, two, three and so on among the players.

In the face of this kind of beater, whether it is to escape, whether it is a head-to-head duel, or even escort, you need to make a choice. You're not going to put all nine hitters on base?

Hashimoto Yuyan thought about it, sorted out the wording, and then said: "First of all, let's talk about pitchers, although I don't want to, but I still have to say that the four pitchers of Qingdao High School have extremely high combat effectiveness. Especially Akira Shibuyani and Eijun Sawamura in the first grade. They're not like me, they're all very talented, and it's a tough challenge for our players from the big speedball or the quirky team. Putting these two aside, even the third-year senior Tanba, his curveball and knuckle ball are very powerful weapons. There is also the second-year Kawasenagami, who is flexible and changeable with the ball, and he also has good ball control. Our batters have nothing to do but swing their bats with all their strength to score in the face of such a pitcher. ā€

Nojiri nodded with an ugly face, and said that the blow of Qingdao High School was a headache, but they didn't know that this kind of pitcher formation was also uncomfortable. The most important thing is that Qingdao is different from the average pitcher-centric team, and their pitchers don't have to worry about losing points, because their hitters will definitely score back.

"Where's the beater?"

Hashimoto thought about it and said something that Nojiri would never forget.

"Pick out all the high school students right now and pick out the best 100 beaters. Qingdao High School's first army is all in it. ā€

More than 4,000 colleges and universities, hundreds of thousands of baseball players, and 100 people were selected from these people. The fighters who are being selected by the first army of Qingdao High School are all included!

The media said that Qingdao High School is the first line in the country, and it is really genuine in this regard.

"Especially the four-stick Tetsuya Yuki and the five-stick Yang Ping. Yang Ping: I have played against him, and there are no more than five of us in the same class who can compete with him, and none of them can completely surpass him. But such a person is ranked in the top five, and the strength of Tetsuya Yuuki can be imagined. ā€

This year, Hashimoto Yuyan selected ten star players at the national competition.

And in the past, I didn't even choose a star player, it's not that I didn't have a particularly outstanding player, but I really couldn't make up so many monsters.

Known as the strongest class of high school graduates, the national competition is known as comparable to Koshien.

Such a top person, after growing up in Qingdao for half a year, is still not an opponent. The third year of Seido High School is really scary.

Nojiri thought to himself that he had never heard of the name Tetsuya Yuuki before, which meant that he was not very famous in the country.

is not famous, but has such strength.

Kataoka Tetsushin, the coach of Qingdao High School, doesn't look young, and his means of training his disciples don't seem to be weak at all.

Tomorrow, the match against Seido High School will be very interesting.

(To be continued.) )