Lotte Draft No. 1 Sasaki Lower body's instantaneous power is excellent January 19 19:22
Lotte, a professional baseball player, measured the physical strength of new rookies and found that pitcher Aki Sasaki, the 1st draft rookie who is attracting attention with the fastest ball at the fastest speed of 163 km, has excellent lower body instantaneous power.
Seven new players from Lotte, including pitcher Sasaki, measured physical fitness at Juntendo University, which the team is affiliated with on 16th this month, and some of the results were announced by the team.
According to Atsushi Kubota, associate professor of the School of Sports and Health Sciences, pitcher Sasaki measured the strength of his legs, centered on his thighs, and scored as much as a sprinter running 100 meters in about 10 seconds 3 seconds.
The vertical jump was 73 cm and was the top jumping power among newcomers. Conditioning director of Lotte's Takahiko Kusunoki says, `` I think that there is strength in the feet and I think that the lower body can be used to put the ball into the ball with evidence of firmly kicking the ground, '' the strength of the spring in the lower body is the fastest 163 Analyze that it produces a kilometer fastball.
On the other hand, shoulder strength was the lowest among the three new pitchers. In many cases, the higher the speed of the shoulder movement, the lower the strength tends to be, but the pitcher Sasaki has a different result, as the faster the movement, the higher the strength.
`` This may be the characteristic of pitcher Sasaki who throws a 160-kilometre straight with the physique and physical strength of a high school student. The ability to properly exercise even at higher speeds is from the viewpoint of competitive ability and prevention of injury. Given the situation where Sasaki is still a high school student and not mature, there is no doubt that there is still potential in terms of strength. "