"I've never missed a lottery. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

This is what Yabe said to his teammates before participating in the draft for the first time in the autumn tournament after taking over as captain.

"And the result?"

When he came back from the lottery meeting, his face was a dark cloud.

"It's kind of a good sign."

Yabe unfolded the matchup chart for everyone to see.

Private Kemingguan University. Located in Nakano Ward. According to the current division, it is considered a team in East Tokyo. However, for a long time in the past, schools in Nakano Ward participated in the Nishi-Tokyo Games.

Katsumeikan was also a powerhouse in Nishitokyo at the time. Although it is not as good as Fuso 3rd and Hayata. In the spring and summer, there are nearly 10 Koshien appearances.

However, their baseball team has had a mediocre run in recent years, and since moving to the Higashi-Tokyo area, they have not played in Koshien either spring or summer.

Therefore, Yabe felt that it would not be too bad to meet such an opponent in the autumn tournament.

Of course, there are other meanings to why it is a good sign.

Even before the establishment of the Peace Academy, Katsumeikan was already famous in Japan for its many talented artists.

Although the free school spirit of the Peace School was not formed specifically to attract talented students.

But as the founder of the school faded out of business. Today's management increasingly sees this advantage as a means of recruiting students.

In the eyes of Principal Morimoto and others, the Keming Hall of the old artist school can be described as a thorn in the side.

Yabe has evaluated the strength of the two teams, and in the summer, only three or four of the main players in Katsumeikan are second-year. The third round of the East Tokyo Conference was held.

Yabe felt that with the current strength of the Peace Academy, it was quite possible to defeat the opponent.

And in this way, Principal Morimoto will probably be very satisfied. At that time, some things will be easier to negotiate conditions.

"Don't you like the principal's emphasis on the baseball club......

After Li Yuanrang learned about Yabe's thoughts, he still felt a little strange. After all, the person who didn't want the principal to engage in special enrollment and a full-time dormitory system from the beginning was Yabe himself.

"Now that a new superintendent has been found, the dormitory is being built. It's useless to blindly resist, it's better to guide the development of things in a reasonable direction. ”

Yabe's claim is actually not complicated.

He hoped to take the elite route and control the baseball club to a range of about 40 people. Priority will be given to players from the middle school of the Peace Academy.

Baseball at the junior high school level in Japan is divided into two parallel systems.

The true elite of baseball has generally been trained in various types of hard leagues since the upper grades of elementary school.

In terms of school sports, soft baseball is the main focus.

The former Ichihei Fukushima and the current Akio Yabe were both born in the soft baseball club of Peace School Junior High School.

Compared to the high school part, the soft baseball club of Peace Gakuen Middle School has a better historical record.

Although they did not receive an elite baseball education from an early age, there are some players who are poached by other baseball schools when they go to school every year.

But after all, it's still a soft team.,It's a little shorter from the beginning.,There aren't many players who graduated from Peace School High School and then established themselves in a famous college baseball school.。

"But when the Yagi superintendent was in middle school, it was also a peace school."

"But he's not from a softball club."

Superintendent Yagi has been training in the Hardstyle Junior League since he was a child.

The pitcher-turned-overseer isn't good at playing coaching bats. But there are a lot of ideas of their own when it comes to pitching.

……

"Can Inspector Yagi teach me how to throw a ball?"

Surprisingly, it wasn't the player who was the first to ask Yagi for advice on pitching. It's the team's coach Kazusha Aragaki.

"Is Overseer Yagi's skateball famous?"

Li Yuanrang on the side asked Yabe in a low voice.

"Of course, it was this that attracted the name of three professional baseball teams."

In the summer of more than 20 years ago, Tomohito Yagi reached the semi-finals of Koshien in his junior year of high school. The team was able to achieve such results almost by the complete burning of ace Yagi alone.

The lateral displacement is almost a sharp slider with a home plate and a shock Koshien.

"It's amazing, completely ignoring the traverse of gravity, and it looks like a computer stunt."

Li Yuanrang watched this video on Yabe's mobile phone, and he felt incredible.

"If Tokuda can throw this kind of change ball, the average hitter will definitely not hit it."

As a catcher, what Li Yuanrang is now troubled by is the problem that Tokuda has the speed of the ball but lacks the decisive ball.

If Overseer Yagi could teach Tokuda the skateball he had played back then, the problem would have been solved.

"You mean the kind of slide I threw when I was a student? Don't practice your words......"

On the other side of the field, Superintendent Yagi is rejecting Aragaki and Sasa's request.

"Are you worried about getting hurt? Don't worry, I haven't had a fatal injury in all my years of baseball. ”

"It's not a problem in that regard, Aragaki your goal is to get into professional baseball, right?"

"Hmm."

"IMHO, a professional baseball team doesn't push a halfway pitcher onto the pitcher's mound. So let's work towards second baseman or outfielder. ”

Superintendent Yagi's words are right, but they're not right.

Not all professional baseball teams think that way.

But at least the teams in the Independent League have done so for the sake of the market.

There was a female pitcher who could throw butterfly balls and attracted a lot of media attention for the independent league in Kansai.

So even though she has a double-digit defense rate, she still goes on the board and pitches many times.

For professional baseball, whether to sign a player or not, whether to let the player play. Sometimes it's important to consider the balance between business value and track record.

For a baseball league without the pressure of relegation, even underpowered players may be given a chance to play if the benefits of a commercial gimmick far outweigh the loss of record.

In fact, since the summer, Aragaki and Sand have almost adjusted their roadmap to enter professional baseball.

She began to look directly at her physical and technical inferiorities. And it plans to attract the attention of the team with its own commercial added value.

It's just that Aragaki and Sha's plan doesn't even feel that she is above board enough.

The current Overseer Yagi has pointed this out almost bluntly.

For a while, the atmosphere was a little stiff.

"If Coach Aragaki can't do it, what about the other pitchers on the team."

Yabe approached Superintendent Yagi and slightly changed the subject in his own words.

"Other pitchers? For example......"

"For example, Tokuda Qiuer, he started in the last game."

"Speaking of which, I've already seen the footage of the last game. Compared to the change ball, Tokuda's straight ball is really good......"

"So if you practice changing the ball that can be used as a deciding ball, Tokuda will be more suppressive."

"No, it's better for you to learn how to skate from scratch than to let him learn to skate."

"Me?"

Yabe was taken aback.

"I'm just pitching for a cameo......"

Yabe said. (To be continued.) )