In a new environment, people will always be a little uncomfortable, so Xia Ben Rongguan's sleep quality last night was not very good. The golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, but life is like this, you can't complain, you can only adapt.

Because none of the other players have come to stay yet, the canteen at the training ground will not serve breakfast for Nakamoto alone. Xia Ben Rongguan's breakfast was solved with Uncle Liao's bearded man, and the two of them worked together in the management area. The staple food is rice, the side dishes are pickles, miso soup, fish, and Natsumoto Eikan himself has a large box of skim milk.

Xia Ben Rongguan packed up the dishes, chopsticks and tableware, and was about to rush to the training ground, walked to the entrance to change his shoes, and was about to open the door and leave. Suddenly there was a shout from behind him: "First base waist and belly assault ball!" ”

Xia Ben Rongguan had already turned around and faced the door at this time, if it was on the field, he would not turn around and use his left hand to catch the ball, so he did not turn around, but directly made the first reaction with his right hand backhand.

"Smack!"

A hard, ball-like object smashed solidly into the right hand, which was at the height of the back of the waist and abdomen - a backhand, of course.

Xia Ben Rongguan took the object in front of him and saw that it was a red snake fruit. He turned to look at the management area, and Uncle Liao's bearded man just smiled and waved at him, "Nice Play!" ”

"Thanks! Uncle! ”

As professional athletes, the topic of conversation during the meal is of course inseparable from the upcoming professional baseball game in Japan.

The weak Saitama Tezuka Little White Lion, away from the challenge of the strong Jigen team, Yomiuri Tiny Giant.

Unfortunately, two of the three people in this room were on the weaker side, and the other person hadn't even had a chance to play—if it weren't for Saitama's proximity to Tokyo, I'm afraid he wouldn't have had a chance to come here, and the three of them ate together.

Hikozu Ando: "Senior, the Giants have been in good form recently, and in the last round, they also won an away series, and they actually won a total victory. ”

The host of the guest, Isamu Nishiki: "Uh-huh, so their ranking this season is second only to the first Toyo Xiaojinyu, which is not a fluke. ”

Ando: "Well, recently, various media have been hyping up, saying that the Demon Little Giant Army of the year is about to be reborn again. ”

"Nirvana?" My grandson Boman stopped his chopsticks and frowned, a question mark on his forehead.

The old boy questioned: "Wait, when has the Giant Army ever been weak?" Reduced to the point where you need to be reborn in Nirvana? ”

Hakumitsu's question makes Nishiki and Ando ...... Speechless.

The Giants in the first two years were the weakest in more than ten or twenty years, but they never fell out of Group A of the Japanese Professional Baseball Central League (referred to as: Central League).

And the little white lion of Saitama, who was able to continuously snipe the chief throne of the Giant Army, has been riding the elevators of Group A and Group B for more than ten years, but it is very familiar to the point that it is commonplace......

As the media said, the Giants have just taken a nap between the old and the new in the past two years.

And the little white lion of Saitama has really become a little white lion, no longer the lion king, no longer the king of champions...... It's been many years.

The situation is dire.

Today's game ...... It is estimated that it will also be severe.

Ando: "Today's starter, I don't need to be Tatsuya, and the supervisor is still very cautious. ”

Bo Man, who was not shocking and endless, suddenly pointed at the country with chopsticks indignantly, and excitedly said: "Cautious? Is this called prudence? This is called wanting to win and being afraid of losing, even if you use the word conservative, you are greatly praising that Ojisan. ”

The magic pen, calling his own overseer Ojisan...... Of course, I can't let this kid, uh, the old boy (two years older than Ximu), continue to play so freely, and the signs of inappropriateness must be stopped.

Nishiki: "Boman, he is also our overseer, and he must be respected......"

Bo Man coerced his shoulders, stopped talking, and continued to bury his head in the battle with food.

Ximu coughed lightly: "No matter what, the overseer has also put you on the big list...... This shows that the overseer still expects something from you. ”

The old boy just smiled. said it was a laugh, but in fact, it was just a smile and not a smile.

Well, it's important to admit a fact that everyone in the team knows. The Superintendent simply believes, or wants to try to believe, the eyes of his chief scout. This person has recommended Boman to the supervisor many times, and it can even be said that Boman switched from the Social League to join our professional team because of the existence of this chief scout. This is a person who plays a decisive role, a non-decisive person.

Of course, on the scene, this kind of truth cannot be told in any way, no matter which country in the world - these are the rules of the game in the adult world.

"If you don't get the start, Tatsuya must be scolding her mother in her heart." Boman, the old boy, muttered something while eating.

Although it makes sense, what else can I do with Nishiki Yong, of course, I can only choose to forgive him.

"If you want to talk about Tatsuya, he is indeed a rare talent, and his career is only in his second year, and at a young age, he can occupy a fixed rotation position in the first team of pitchers......"

These words are from the bottom of my heart. I've been playing professionally for four years, and I've endured a lot of hardships to get out of the Second Army, and now I'm barely standing in the position of a rotating pitcher in the First Army.

It looks like I'm two years behind the big guys, but I also got a pitcher position in the first team, right?

It's just a layman's opinion, although it looks like the same pitcher position, and there's a lot of knowledge in it.

As we all know, professional baseball, the pitcher position is divided according to the mainstream function, there are three different categories of starting pitchers, relay pitchers, terminators, generally speaking, the comprehensive strength of the starting pitcher is the strongest, so there are aces, aces, and it is a unique title for tall. Relay pitchers and finishers, as the reserves of functional human resources in baseball games, have their own strengths and weaknesses on the court, each performing its own duties and showing its abilities.

Clever readers have already guessed that "Tatsuya" is the starting pitcher. Professional baseball is not an amateur league, and it is not comparable to mere high school baseball. The "sophomore" starting pitcher is definitely a transcendent existence in professional baseball. Basically, this kind of person will be a candidate for the NPB Hall of Fame in the future, and even the major leagues are by no means a dream......

In comparison, I was just a relay pitcher who hadn't given up on his dream of starting out...... If you insist that there is no gap between me and Tatsuya, will anyone really believe this? The coaching staff and technical team of a professional ball club can't all be blind, right?

All but one of us in the Saitama Little White Lions team believe that Tatsuya has basically the strength to compete for the main starting pitcher. Even the most conservative view is that Tatsuya will at least start the board this season and pitch five or six games.

Looking at the number of five games and six games, it seems that the number of games is not very large. You know, even if the starting pitcher is officially activated at the beginning of a season, he will pitch more than 30 games in a season. Thirty plus is the number of games that ace pitchers of each team need to eat in a season. In this way, for a rookie, five or six games is already a lot of data - don't forget, this is just the lowest estimate for Tatsuya.

We can also measure it by the simplest and most intuitive criteria. You know, Tatsuya, like me, is a high pawn (graduated from high school and entered the industry), and he is also the first name. In other words, the two of us started exactly the same. As far as this year is concerned, I, I, have an annual salary of 18 million, and Tatsuya Imai has an annual salary of 23 million. I've been doing this for four years, Tatsuya, and this is only my second year. There was a gap of 5 million yen between us. That is, there is now a year's income for a social person with a mid-range income between the two of us.

Although it seems very unseemly to evaluate a person's worth only by their annual salary. But with all due respect, in professional baseball, what is used to measure an athlete's strength and self-worth? In addition to the annual salary of the athletes, the professional clubs did not give any other convincing options other than money......