Chapter 2: Newcomers (Part 1)
The baseball team in middle school has a limit on the number of people who can participate in the game. Generally speaking, the school's baseball team will not exceed this number. In a team like Qingdao, there are one army, two armies, and three armies, and there are very few people who add up to more than 100 people.
In Nagano Prefecture, there is a team of the Second Army, and you can count it with ten fingers with two hands stretched out. In addition to the three kings, there are only a few teams in the top eight that have the establishment of the second army.
Akagi doesn't even have a professional coach, and Sawamura really doesn't have the heart to coach more people. And Akagi is about to be merged, and it is still unknown whether the school will exist after that, let alone the baseball team.
Once Sawamura and the others left, the baseball team would exist in name only.
Such a team has also lost the value of inheritance, and Sawamura is naturally not looking forward to a new life.
The team that people join is likely to be forcibly disbanded when they are in the third grade, and it is difficult for Sawamura to lick his face and recruit new students.
There was no recruitment form, no special people to recruit, and no publicity was done......
But even so, there are many people who take the initiative to go to the baseball club to apply to join the team. As the receptionist, Cangyue was busy for a whole morning before sorting out the information of all the applicants.
"Look, that's all!"
Cangyue handed a thick stack of materials to Sawamura. Her little face was flushed with excitement.
Let's see who will dare to underestimate the baseball team of Akagi Middle School in the future, with these twenty people, the baseball team of Akagi Middle School will have a full thirty people. Wow, not to mention anything else, just the number of team members, Akagi can be compared to the three kings.
Looking at Wakana's excited little face, Sawamura also laughed, but his smile was somewhat stiff.
This is still not accepting applications from the same class, otherwise, I am afraid that the number of people will be even higher. As long as you make a result, you will have this benefit, whether it is a talent or a person who loves to join in the fun, it will follow.
Everyone knows that there is meat to eat with Akagi. Even if you can't participate in the national competition, you can participate in the Kanto Games.
You can represent Nagano Prefecture and participate in the Kanto Conference. It means standing out from more than 8,000 teams and more than 100,000 people. Not to mention anything else, just to brag is enough for friends to brag for a lifetime.
Sawamura expected a lot of people to come, but he didn't expect so many to come. After all, Akagi is a small place, and there are a number of new students enrolled nearby, and according to the principal, this year is also a bumper harvest, with a hundred and dozens of people coming.
Even if there are half male and female students, there are only seventy or eighty male students, and only a quarter of the total number of male students apply to sign up for the baseball team.
With so many people, the baseball team only picks six people to join the team, which means they have to brush off a dozen people. With so many people, how to calm the anger generated after being brushed down?
No, the baseball team, which had just established the prestige of the No. 1 club at Akagi Middle School, would suddenly lose its reputation.
Although this doesn't have much impact on Sawamura and the baseball team, the people around you point fingers at you every day and feel resentful, which also affects your mood.
"You have to think of a proper way."
Sawamura was in a dilemma, completely unable to pay attention to Wakana's excitement, so he listened to her gush.
"Many players from our region who used to learn from Nagano City have now chosen to join our team. In the past, they either directly joined the youth club, or entered Nagano Metropolitan or went to Tenryuji and Daihoku. There are also two main players who used to be Nagano's junior baseballs, the main outfielder Ozono Pujun, and the substitute pitcher Komaki. I believe that with them on board, we ......"
Sawamura was stunned when he heard this, the main outfielder and substitute pitcher.
Maybe it's because he thinks too much about himself, but these two guys will really find a place for themselves.
If Akagi really aims at the whole country, it will definitely not be possible to rely on the existing lineup alone. There are at least two slots that need to be replenished.
One is a substitute pitcher, and it is impossible for Sawamura alone to survive the prefectural tournament, the Kanto tournament, and the national tournament in a row. The regional tournaments are okay, with a maximum of two games a week.
But the Kanto Games is different from the national competition.
The Kanto tournament is one week, and the national tournament is two weeks. In such a short period of time, there are at least nine games to be played until the end. With an average of one game every two days, with such a density of games, Sawamura is not an iron man, so of course he can't hold it.
So, Akagi needs a professional backup pitcher.
In addition, with the current defensive formation of the Akagi Middle School baseball team, they still lack a backbone who can pass the ball and have enough strength. Cangyue's strength is insufficient, and Yamaguchi's long pass is not accurate......
"These two guys, can't they just stare at these two positions? Are today's elementary school students so mature in their thinking? ”
Sawamura felt a little incredible.
Although in this life, he determined the path he wanted to take early on, but in his previous life, he didn't start to make this kind of choice that affected his life until he graduated from middle school.
Maybe it's really like what the guy said, it's not that others are too mature, but that his own thinking is too simple.
"Let's go, go see them."
On the second day of school, the freshmen of the baseball team gathered.
Now the professional stadium of Akagi Middle School has been almost transformed by Sawamura. There are no less things to have.
Looking at such a court, most of the newcomers were very surprised, they really didn't expect that a little-known small school would have such professional equipment.
"It's worthy of Akagi, and it really values baseball."
"In other words, with such a large playground, the baseball field alone occupies more than half."
"I've heard that other big clubs like the football club, the track and field club, which need playgrounds, have been forcibly disbanded."
"Really?"
"Less deception, other large clubs are because the number of people is not enough......"
The newcomers are whispering and discussing.
In the distance, the original team of the Akagi Middle School baseball team arrived belatedly.
"It's coming! At the forefront is Sawamura-senpai. ”
Sawamura took the lead and was at the head of the line. He was followed by Feng Xiang, Oda, Yamaguchi, Cangyue, Feng Liang, Ashin, and the Yamazaki brothers and other friends.
Today's baseball teams are not the same as they used to be.
When the baseball team was first established, the baseball team's friends walked there like shrimp soldiers and crabs, and people looked at them like jokes. It's different now, and now the friends are walking there with a difference.
People will never look at them the same way they see jokes. Although he also pointed, his eyes were full of envy.
To put it mildly, the current baseball team has become a beautiful scenery of Akagi Middle School.