Hiroshima Draft 1st place Meiji University Morishita immediately greeted nomination October 17 21:27

At the draft meeting of professional baseball held on the 17th, Meiji University's pitcher Masahito Morishita, who was nominated from Hiroshima, received a greeting from director Shinji Sasaoka. I want to be well prepared, ”he said.

Morishita is the right pitcher who throws the fastest 155 km straight and various changing balls in a controlled manner, and was named first by Hiroshima at the draft meeting on the 17th.

On the night of 17th, Morishita received a greeting from director Sasaoka and others at a university facility in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.

The greeting was held privately, but Director Sasaoka said that he was happy to have obtained the right to negotiate in his first job as a director.

In the following commemorative photo, Manager Sasaoka immediately put a team hat on Morishita.

Director Sasaoka said, “I decided to pitch Morishita from the beginning, so when I got the right to negotiate, I was in a guts pose.

Mr. Morishita expressed his enthusiasm, "I strongly thought that I had to leave the results as a member of the team.