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From Akio Yabe's tone just now, Li Yuanrang could feel that he was not very optimistic about the plan of the new superintendent Yagi.

But Yabe himself has been a supporter of the pitcher's division of labor, and his attitude seems somewhat contradictory between the two things.

"It's not that pitchers don't have a bad division of labor, but it's a bit of a cart before the horse to pursue this at the college level......

What Yabe is objecting to is certainly not the pitcher division of labor per se. It is a prerequisite for the division of labor among pitchers, that is, a rich talent pool.

The baseball club of the Peace School now has more than a dozen players. It's a little less than the ideal number.

However, according to the standards of the famous baseball club, more than ten or twenty sports students are recruited from all over the country every year. Then add the general members of the department.

It is not uncommon for the baseball club to have hundreds of people in the three grades combined.

You know, even a professional baseball team has a limit of only 70 full-fledged players.

In Yabe's view, this kind of baseball club, which has a total number of hundreds of people, is meaningless.

There are very few people who can actually get the chance to play. Most of the members of the department are recruited and do not receive adequate guidance.

And the college career is only three years. However, for players of this age, the growth of both physical and ball skills is a crucial three years.

The principal had already announced an ambitious special enrollment plan, and now he has brought in Superintendent Yagi, who is promoting the division of labor among pitchers. Yabe fears that the team he leads will become the type he hates.

As for the training of pitchers, Yabe doesn't have many new methods, including himself, and he hasn't been taught by any more powerful pitchers.

He could only find a way from other aspects that he was familiar with.

……

The following week after the group qualifiers breakout. During a baseball club's practice, a truck drove to the sidelines.

"What is this?"

Li Yuanrang pointed to something that looked like the practice equipment he had just unloaded.

"You can also know it if you watch it, the nine-square grid commonly used on TV."

Yabe replied.

"I haven't seen it at all."

It is different from the nine-square grid that is usually used as a pitching target.

The lattice is made of styrofoam and can break or fall off when hit by a baseball.

And it is not surprising that Li Yuanrang has never seen this kind of equipment on TV.

Television programs using this equipment were discontinued more than a decade ago. At that time, Li Yuanrang let alone study abroad, even if he didn't go to kindergarten.

As for Yabe, who is the same age, because of his love for TV shows. I often look for old videos on video sites to watch.

And this show about baseball naturally impressed him.

"Is this really useful for improving possession?"

Li Yuanrang asked.

"Maybe it works...... Even if it doesn't matter for the sake of the reward, it will make the pitcher more motivated when practicing. ”

"Reward?"

"Aim for these squares with a baseball and get a reward if you hit all nine balls."

Yabe explains to Lee Wonrang the rules used in TV shows that year.

"If nine squares correspond to nine goals, you can't miss a single goal, right?"

"Not necessarily, there is a way to save the number of balls."

In this nine-square grid target, except for the middle grid, there is no steel bar separating the other grids.

If a baseball hits exactly the spot between two plastic plates, it has a chance to break both boards at the same time. This saves the number of balls.

Of course, from a pitcher's point of view, hitting exactly where the two boards are located requires more control than hitting the target directly.

"What's the reward if you hit all of them within nine balls?"

"There used to be two million prizes on TV shows. As for our usual training, let's get a meal coupon for the curry shop! ”

Li Yuanrang glanced at Tokuda Qiu'er, who was practicing pitching alone on the sidelines.

"I think it's better to change the reward......"

……

After entering Koshien in the summer, the baseball club suddenly had several more managers.

With the addition of the original two, there are now as many as six managers.

But the Peace Academy, which usually outsources even the cleaning of classrooms and campuses, doesn't have so many daily tasks to do.

At first, the new managers were pretending to find something to do.

Gradually, the baseball training became an occasion for a group of people to get together to play and chat on their mobile phones.

But the incident entered late September, and these managers were really busy.

Kohama, the team's only male manager, sat on a bench in the lounge area, holding a clump of rags in his hand, and he was sewing the two pieces together with a needle and thread.

"What is this sewing on?"

Old-school baseball comics have school managers mending up the clothes of the players.

But times are different, and there aren't many teenagers who still train in patched jerseys.

If there's one thing in the baseball club that requires needlework, it's sewing pieces of cloth on the back of the jerseys for the players.

However, the jersey numbers used by the Peace Academy in local competitions are fastened with hook and loop fastenings. At the Koshien Games, we will entrust a specialized manufacturer to produce it in a unified manner.

There is no need for managers to sew by hand.

What's more, the strangely colored piece of cloth that this Xiaobin is holding in his hand is not a jersey or the material of the jersey no matter how you look at it.

"Well, it's a monster sewn up. Or maybe it's a ghost. ”

To be honest, Xiaobin himself may not know what he is sewing.

"Goblins?"

"At the cultural festival, our class plans to make a haunted house."

What Kohama sewed was the props needed to play the ghost in the haunted house.

"But this thing doesn't look scary at all."

"It's different when the lights are off. Look at this. ”

Kohama picked up a strip of white cloth.

"This one glows in the dark."

What Kohama did was sew these strips of fluorescent cloth onto the cloth cover to form a skeleton pattern.

"Even this doesn't seem scary, it's a lot of work. It's better to wrap strips of cloth directly around your body to make fluorescent mummies. ”

"That's a good idea, you wait for me to take my phone and write it down."

Xiao Bin picked up the mobile phone next to him and wrote down Li Yuanrang's thoughts just now.

"When is the cultural festival coming, and when is the time to go to your haunted house?"

"Second weekend in October. But you don't have time to play. ”

"Oh?"

"That's when the autumn meeting begins."

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Games will start on the second weekend of October.

There has been no draw yet. It may not be possible to play on the two days of the festival.

But even if you don't play that day, you definitely don't have time to play during the preparation period.

"It's a shame, but I've been looking forward to the cultural festival." (To be continued.) )