One day near October, a middle-aged man in a suit and gold-rimmed glasses arrived at the practice range accompanied by the principal. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"This is the superintendent of the baseball club for the next three years, Professor Yagi of Shiratori University."

The principal introduced this to everyone.

"It's an associate professor, an associate professor."

Li Yuanrang's first impression in his heart was "so short".

Superintendent Yagi wears leather shoes with a heel of about three centimeters. But it doesn't look much taller than Yabe.

The actual height may be around 170.

Plus gold-rimmed glasses and a suit. In any case, it is impossible to see that he is the ace pitcher who reached the semifinals of Koshien 20 years ago.

It's not even so much like a university teacher, it's more like an office worker.

Next, Superintendent Yagi began to introduce himself.

"I'm the new overseer, Tomohito Yagi. You've probably seen me on TV. ”

Most of the players present shook their heads and said they hadn't seen it, and only Yabe nodded alone.

Although the official profession is associate professor at the university. However, Tomohito Yagi is better known as an "expert" on college baseball issues who frequently appears in the media.

But the shows he usually goes on are rarely watched by young people.

His main fans are parents of students, especially female parents. It's not very popular among real college players.

"Will it be ...... in the next three years?"

Li Yuanrang was still a little surprised by the length of this term.

Although he is only beginning to understand the world of baseball, Li Yuanrang has the impression that the tenure of coaches in most sports should be linked to the record.

But after thinking about it, it was normal to give a three-year deadline all at once.

School baseball is not the same as a professional game after all. Especially in Japan, the spring and summer national tournaments are single-elimination systems. Losing a game ends here for the whole year.

And the construction of the team also takes time.

The three-year period is almost a reasonable amount of time to bring a team into shape.

And more than three years is not of much significance, because the students in the current team will almost all graduate in three years.

Therefore, it is fair to use a three-year period to evaluate the performance of the overseer.

Of course, in fact, most of the famous coaches in the field of Japanese college baseball have been coaching for many years. It's not uncommon to have been a superintendent on a team for twenty or thirty years in a row.

……

After saying hello, the headmaster hurried away.

Next, the head of the baseball department, Mr. Sato, introduced the team's main players and other members of the baseball club.

“…… Finally, this is the coach Aragaki who is in charge of auxiliary training. ”

Superintendent Yagi greeted everyone one by one. Then everyone was given a library of books.

"This is my most recent book, so you can read it if you have time."

After introducing each other, Yagi supervised him and began to take off his blazer.

"In order to improve the understanding with everyone, why don't we do a catch practice. Ah, Mr. Sato, please help me get this. ”

Obviously, Yagi took off his coat because he was going to hit the coach's stick with a bat.

"If you want to play, you might as well change your jersey. There's a set of ...... ready in the locker room."

"I still wear the jersey when I play, I usually wear my own clothes."

Baseball is different from football and basketball. The team's coaches wear jerseys as well. If it's a professional baseball game, the coaches will each have their own numbers.

But this time this Yagi supervisor seems to have planned to coach the team in a suit from the beginning.

"What about the warm-up......

"Just wave it twice and don't use it."

Because it was only a symbolic catch, the players were not in their respective positions on the field. Instead, line up in a row and take turns waiting to catch the ball.

"Then the first Tokuda-san, pick up the ......"

Yagi quickly memorized everyone's names.

He tosses the ball lightly and swings his bat.

And then...... Waved it into the air.

"Occasionally, this kind of thing happens to be empty."

Superintendent Yagi smiled awkwardly.

"Then again...... Tokuda-san, please pick it up. ”

Overseer Yagi swung the bat harder than the last time, but he still couldn't hit the baseball, because of the force, the tilt of his body after the swing was more obvious.

"It was just a warm-up. Think of it as a warm-up. ”

Mr. Sato played a round on the side.

"I'm going to fight seriously this time. Pick it up. ”

This time, the Yagi overseer swung his bat and spun around and then stepped on the baseball that landed on the ground.

"Ah......h

……

With the sound of the ambulance leaving, the training was almost over.

"Yagi supervises him, he's fine."

Li Yuanrang asked.

"He's just trying to find a way to end this situation."

Yabe replied.

Tomohito Yagi also coached the baseball club when he was teaching at university, but that was more than a decade ago.

In the last ten years, he has insisted on physical exercise. But that's to maintain the figure and image in front of the media.

It's been a long time since the bat has been touched.

"But Yagi seems to be a pitcher, so it's normal to not do this kind of thing well."

"Oh, you knew this guy before."

Yabe was a little surprised that Li Yuanrang knew the Yagi overseer.

"A while ago, I heard that he was a popular candidate for our team supervision, so I went to the Internet to check some information. If you are a pitcher, maybe it will help the team's pitcher lineup? ”

"Whether it's a pitcher or a fielder, he doesn't really have coaching experience."

Except for a year or two after graduating from college, he worked as a coach for the school's baseball club. Tomohito Yagi has basically no experience with baseball training.

He has never coached a college or college team as a superintendent.

But because he is good at using new media, he can speak well. In recent years, he has unexpectedly become a "college baseball expert" in the media.

"Guess what major this Yagi overseer teaches at university?"

"Probably sports science or something."

This is Li Yuanrang's speculation.

"Actually, it's ...... in terms of business management"

It is not a business management in the field of sports, but a simple business management.

Yabe pulled out his phone, and it was a book listed in an online bookstore searching for Tomohito Yagi's name.

Five years ago, there were three or five books, all of which were on corporate management.

And in recent years, it has been related to baseball.

The change in style was also about the time when Supervisor Yagi gradually became popular by commenting on high school baseball on social networking sites.

"Sometimes you can see the trajectory of a person's life in this way."

Li Yuanrang thought so.

He had previously searched for a list of books by a Japanese IT magnate in an online bookstore.

This man almost bought a professional baseball team at his peak, went to jail, and now came out to start a business again.

His recent book is either chicken soup for the soul or peddling his own private gossip, and before he went to prison, it was all a tone of success.

The most simple thing is at the beginning of the business, when the books written at that time were all books on programming techniques used. (To be continued.) )