Iwate Ofuna Todaka's pitcher Aki Sasaki "Baseball in a high level" Oct. 2 19:00
Iwate, who scored a ball speed of 163 km, pitcher Aki Sasaki of Ofunato High School held a conference on the 2nd and reported that a professional award was accepted. “I want to play baseball at a high level while playing high school baseball. “I came to think of it,” he said.
Each team is a candidate for the first draft nomination
Iwate Ofunato High School pitcher Aki Sasaki pitched 1 meter 90 cm tall.
Throw a straight over 160 km from the throwing form that raises the left foot greatly.
I was born in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture, after the Great East Japan Earthquake. After the disaster, I moved to the neighboring Ofunato City and lived in baseball.
In April, when he became a third-year student at Ofunato High School, he measured the fastest 163 km with one of the speed guns of a professional baseball scout in Japan's national team candidate Red and White for the World Cup under 18. Since then, it has attracted a lot of attention.
And at the Iwate tournament aiming at national high school baseball in summer, it marked 160 kilometers and was lined up with the record measured by the same league Ikeate tournament when Shohei Otani of the Major League Baseball Angels was in the third year of Hanamaki East High School.
However, in this tournament, the final was not climbed under the direction of the manager to prevent failure due to fatigue, and the team was defeated, so it was not possible to participate in Koshien.
Also, I participated in the World Cup under the age of 18 under the age of 18 as a representative of Japan from August to September, but the mound at the tournament ended with only one inning due to the influence of the blood blister on the right middle finger. It was.
Still, with regard to pitching Sasaki, Nippon Ham highly evaluated its future potential, and each team has been listed as a candidate for No. 1, such as proclaiming that it will be No. 1 at the professional baseball draft meeting to be held this month. The