Professional baseball Seibu Ofunato High School pitcher Sasaki announced first place nomination October 16th 19:38
At the professional baseball draft meeting held on the 17th, Seibu announced that the fastest 163km pitcher of Iwate and Ofunato High School pitcher Nozomi Sasaki was named first.
Seibu held a final scout meeting at the hotel in Tokyo on the 16th with Hisabu Watanabe General Manager and other senior managers to confirm the draft nomination policy.
After the meeting, General Manager Watanabe will nominate Sasaki pitcher of Ofunato High School, who measured the fastest 163 km in the match against Red and White, a candidate for Japan under 18 in April, according to the coverage of the media. Has been announced.
General Manager Watanabe said that pitcher Sasaki has high potential as a pitcher, as well as throwing, running, tense, quick, etc. What he lacks is experience and throws. There are various stamina and so on, but I would like to nurture it to become a pillar of the team by throwing it in one army and to be a pitcher that represents Japan. "
It was the third baseball team following Nippon Ham and Lotte that announced the first place for pitcher Sasaki.
Seibu said that if the nominations compete at the draft meeting on the 17th, Director Hirohiko Tsuji will draw a lottery.