Qingdao High School, lost the spring competition, and it was a fiasco.

It's nothing!

Qingdao's requirements for the spring competition, as long as you can get a place in the top 16 in Tokyo, nothing else matters.

Even losing to the junior of the old enemy city, the Qingdao High School baseball team, is not unacceptable.

In recent years, Seido has had bad luck and has not been able to make it to Koshien for several years.

If you can't enter Koshien, you won't be able to attract those top good players, and if you can't recruit good seedlings, the strength of the team will naturally not improve.

The strength of the team cannot be improved, and it is natural to lose the battle.

Under the vicious circle, Qingdao has lost to the city junior and Daocheng over the years, not once or twice.

At the end of the day, this is just one of them. Although it is difficult to get over the face, to be honest, there is nothing to mind.

The crux of the matter is that through this game, the shortcomings of the Qingdao High School baseball team were completely exposed.

Their ace strength is not weak, and the line is even stronger, and even the defense is the top in the whole of Tokyo.

From the outside, the Seido High School baseball team should be a very strong team that is very competitive in the Tokyo area.

Not only that, but there are many well-known players in their team. On the cards, compared with Daocheng and the city three, it is not much worse.

But they just can't win!

The team's performance is very inconsistent, not only the pitchers, but also the shooting line occasionally fails.

This doesn't show at all when they play against weak teams.

In the Tokyo Spring Tournament, the first few games of the Seido High School baseball team basically ended early?

The process completely crushes the opponent.

It gives people the feeling that Qingdao is very powerful!

But once they encounter a team with equal strength, or even strength above them.

The team will have frequent problems, either as a pitcher or as a lineman. Especially the pitcher, the probability of being beaten up and the probability of him playing well.

It turned out to be five or five open...

Will such a team be able to make it to Koshien in the end?

If you ask yourself, Superintendent Kataoka didn't dare to guarantee the ticket at all.

As far as the current lineup of the first army is concerned, is it strange that they can enter Koshien?

If Koshien is so easy to enter, why have Aodo and Kataoka been blocked from the door for so many years?

After comprehensively considering the strength of his current team, Superintendent Kataoka came to the conclusion.

They don't stand a chance at all.

Even if they were lucky and played well in a certain game, they took out one of the opponents.

When the next bitter battle comes, they will still be defeated.

"A change has to be made!"

In the past, Seido High School's baseball team was based on third-year students. From the second and first grades, potential seedlings are promoted and cultivated in advance.

This tradition is not only true of the Seido High School baseball team, but also of the vast majority of teams in the island nation.

In this way, it is fair to the vast majority of players.

Real geniuses get opportunities in advance, and the average player in the third year, as long as you have the strength, will also be promoted.

Kataoka has continued this tradition in previous years.

But now it seems that this tradition has long been outdated. He should learn from Daocheng's Guoyou supervision, meritocracy.

As long as the player is really strong, even if it is a first grade, he should be promoted.

As the saying goes, mercy is not in charge of soldiers, and righteousness is not wealth.

Although there are differences between managing a team and managing an army, they are not without commonalities.

Kataoka, who made up his mind, directly found his two assistants, namely the head of the baseball club, Ota and the deputy minister, Rei Takashima.

"That's the plan! The current third year of the First Army originally had good potential. But like toads in warm water, they have gradually become accustomed to their current position. Or even accustomed to the position of our team! We have to set big goals for the players and we have to come up with a whole new system. ”

This plan had been brewing in the mind of Superintendent Kataoka for a long time.

But there has never been a suitable opportunity to bring it up.

From this point of view, they lost to the city juniors, and it was a fiasco.

It's a good thing.

"After the team reform, we will either lose badly, or we will make the team horny!"

Superintendent Kataoka's attitude was very resolute.

Minister Ota rubbed his hands nervously.

As a traditional islander, it was very difficult for him to adapt to this sudden change of tradition.

This is not to say that he can point out any mistakes or make any suggestions.

Rather, instinctively, he thinks of such a approach. Deviant.

The third-year players have been training for a longer time, and their talent is already higher than that of the second-year players.

It is also appropriate to get the position of the main force.

Why did Superintendent Kataoka suddenly come up with such a crazy idea?

Rei Takashima hugged both arms, thought for a while, and finally nodded in support of Kataoka.

"It's not the way to go! The potential and ability of our players, as well as the talent they showed in their junior high school days. It's not as good as the people in the same class as Daocheng and the city juniors! Even if our training is more rigorous and thorough. The training of those two teams has not been left behind. In other words, the gap between us shouldn't change much. Even if there were, it would be difficult to change the relationship between the two of us. In this case, if we still want to make it to Koshien, we can only choose to win by surprise. I agree with Kataoka's strategy. ”

Vice Minister Rei Takashima expressed his support.

Minister Ota is in a dilemma, and he himself is not willing to change his old traditions.

After all, didn't the previous Sakaki overseer rely on the same tradition as before, leading the team to Koshien several times?

He even won Koshien.

Ready-made successful experience, if you don't cherish it, how can you give it up at will?

But he is only the head of the baseball club, and Kataoka is in charge of the training and other arrangements of the baseball club.

The team's admissions department, as well as diplomatic issues.

is in charge of Rei Takashima, who has a deep background and super personal ability.

Although he is nominally the head of the baseball department, he now does odd jobs.

It mainly deals with the training and competition of the Second Army.

With both Kataoka and Rei Takashima already agreeing, what can he say?

In the end, he had no choice but to give in.

"How?"

"Let's start with the orientation match! The substitutions who are not strong enough in the first army are also taken out, including Hidezawa and Tanba. Let them join the team of the Second Army and play an orientation game with the new students. ”

"Isn't the normal orientation contest going to be in May?"

"We can't wait for that!"

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