Tomohito Yagi doesn't really have much time to revamp the team he coaches. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

From the time he took over as a supervisor to the opening of the Autumn Games, there was only a little more than a week.

Even so, Yagi intends to implement a series of ideas that he has been trying to implement from the beginning of this conference.

One of the core is the division of labor among pitchers.

Yagi has seen video footage of the first two games of the Peace School.

In these two games, three members of the Peace School have been on the board to pitch.

This was even better than Yagi had anticipated at the beginning.

Yagi was concerned that there were only one or two half-finished pitchers available on this team of just a dozen players.

However, the presence of Yabe and Masaoka's two pitchers, one on the left and one on the right, made Yagi's plan feasible.

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"To be honest, I don't think eight days to improve my skateball is going to lead to anything."

Regarding the fact that Superintendent Yagi offered to remake his own change ball, Yabe was not very receptive.

Yabe was a backup pitcher in middle school. But playing as a pitcher wasn't his intention, it was just a last resort.

Yabe himself felt that his teammate Tokuda had a much higher talent in pitching than he did.

As long as conditions permit, it is better to let Tokuda hone his skills in actual combat, even if he sacrifices his record this fall. It's also worth thinking about the future.

"You won't improve in eight days, so Tokuda will be able to do it?"

"Tokuda is a blank slate......"

Pitching, especially changing the ball. The reason why there will be differences between pitchers with the same type of pitch is mainly due to the subtle personal habits when pitching.

Yabe can throw slides and curveballs. And has been learned for a long time.

Although it doesn't help the game much, the Yabe change ball has its own characteristics.

Because of this, although the ball speed and ball control were ordinary, when Yabe took over from his teammates on the board in the last game, he basically suppressed the situation.

In the game at the college level, in addition to the tactic of over-burning the ace in the team. There is another tactic that is also prevalent.

That's pitcher wheel warfare.

Professional baseball because of the personal data involved. As long as the starting pitcher is injury-free and has a chance of winning. Team overseers will not replace them before the end of the five innings.

But college competitions are different. It's not uncommon for college teams to change pitchers every other round, and it's not uncommon for teams to play with three or four pitchers of similar calibre at a game.

In most cases, such teams are forced to disrupt the opponent's rhythm by relying on several pitchers with different pitching characteristics to disrupt the opponent's striking rhythm because they can't find a trump card that is enough to suppress the opponent.

Although it is not a tactic that has been planned for a long time, the last Peace Academy also relied on this way to suppress the opponent's counterattack.

This is the good side of the pitcher's personal habits for the game.

On the other hand, once a pitcher's pitching habits are formed, it's hard to change.

Even if it's some bad habits.

For example, the team's former captain Ichihei Fukushima will add an extra force to his fingers when throwing a slider. This causes the ball to change in an earlier timing, which reduces the suddenness of the changing ball.

Fukushima himself has known about this problem for a long time and has intentionally corrected it.

However, once Fukushima started to care about the habit of his fingers, his entire pitching posture would collapse. In the end, the results outweigh the losses.

In the end, Fukushima simply accepted his bad habit and used this kind of sliding ball that was not sharp enough to shoot until his junior year of high school.

Tomohito Yagi is another case.

Although he only practiced skating in his last year of high school, it was also based on his unusual habit of pitching.

When Yagi throws a slider, he uses a slightly different way of shooting a straight ball.

The drop point is slightly lower than three-quarters and higher than the cross-shot.

It stands to reason that this type of throw will make it easier for the opponent to judge the difference between a straight ball and a change ball.

However, this posture is most in line with the laws of his own movement. The arm gives the most suitable power to the ball.

The baseball rotates diagonally faster, creating a stronger Magnus effect. This also allows the slider to have a more drastic lateral change.

Yagi didn't intentionally pitch the ball in this way, but hit it crookedly according to the feeling of his arm.

It's not so much a technique as it is a subtle "habit" of pitching.

As for Yabe's promising pitcher material, Tokuda Ball has not yet officially practiced the shooting of the slide.

It's a blank slate.

Yabe felt that in this case, if Tokuda was to develop the habit of throwing the ball, at least he did not need to "erase" his old habits.

"Maybe Tokuda will be better at skating than you can when he learns to slide. No, if it's Tokuda, he'll probably be better than you no matter what he throws. But why do you have to let him skate? He's a rare speedball pitcher. ”

At least when it came to pitching, Yagi concluded that Yabe's talent was far inferior to Tokuda's.

Yabe himself is not angry about this. After all, even he thinks so himself.

But there was another thing, Yabe was a little surprised. Yagi seems to be intending to let Tokuda concentrate on only practicing straight balls at this stage.

"If you only have a straight ball, you will probably be figured out by your opponent in less than three games."

"Then don't go for three rounds."

"What do you mean by supervising you......"

"Yabe, you will be the starting pitcher, and then let Tokuda take the board after the score is ahead. He only had to throw the ball with all his might in the course of a round or two to suppress his opponents. ”

Yagi intended to use Tokuda as a terminator from the beginning.

As for the starting pitcher, he doesn't have the right cards to play right now. Then Yabe looks like a good candidate.

"And ......"

Yagi turned his head to Li Yuanrang and continued.

"As a catcher, I guess it's more challenging to partner with a pitcher like Yabe."

Li Yuanrang thought about it for a while after listening to this drama, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.

Although Yabe's actual ball speed is less than 130 kilometers. However, the ball and slider are already very proficient in throwing.

Although you can't use the nine-square grid to match the ball accurately. However, as long as you score four points in the good ball area, you can roughly throw it into the position near the glove.

On the other hand, Tokuda's pitching.

Although the fast ball is really suppressive. But as a catcher, most of the time what Li Yuanrang can do during the game is just to look at the incoming ball and not miss it.

The code of the ball and the position of the gloves are for reference only.

Li Yuanrang does not hate forming a casting partner with Tokuda.

But with Yabe, it's clear that there is more to be done on the catcher side.

In this way, pitching is not the business of the pitcher alone. It's a process of working together with the casting partners.