Professional baseball Hiroshima Kikuchi Volunteer training openly enthusiasm for Olympics representative January 12, 17:05

Ryosuke Kikuchi of Hiroshima, who has won the Golden Glove Award for seven consecutive years in professional baseball and played a leading role in the Japanese national team, has announced his voluntary training. I want to do it, "said the enthusiasm of the Tokyo Olympics.

Kikuchi, the second master, won the Golden Glove Award for the seventh consecutive year last season, and contributed to Japan's first victory at the international premier "Premier 12" held last November last year and best nine and best defense I was selected as a player.

Kikuchi released his voluntary training in Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka City on the 12th, and continued to be knocked for more than 40 minutes in defensive practice, and was hitting the ball with his light and light footwork.

Kikuchi aimed for a major league transfer using the posting system off this, but decided to stay in Hiroshima at the end of last month and said, "I was able to start the year with a refreshing feeling. I'm going to be a bad thing and I have a lot of challenges, so I want to do it again with a new feeling. "

Toward the Tokyo Olympics, he said, "I do not think I will be called to the Japanese national team if I do not finish, so I will fight the season first, and if I can be called, I will do my best for the team."