Giant Okamoto Expects Further Growth as “Fourth Third” February 3 20:52
23-year-old Kazuma Okamoto, a professional baseball giant Tatsunori Hara who has high hopes as the "4th third", practiced early morning training every day at a camp held in Miyazaki City and refined his defense ability Is.
Okamoto contributed to the league championship for the first time in five years, marking 30 home runs for two consecutive years last season.
Although the defensive player can handle multiple positions in the infield and outfield, Kotohara has revealed that he is entrusted with Shigeo Nagashima, the lifetime honorary coach, and the idea that Mizuzura will play the third during active duty, synonymous with the giant hitter, We are looking forward to further growth as the 4th Third.
Okamoto has practiced early training every day at the camp to improve his defensive skills, and with the coach three days before the start of the entire training, he repeatedly repeated the posture and gloves when taking the goro for 1 hour. I was checking.
In the batting practice, nine out of 105 swings crossed the fence and flew from the left to the center.
Okamoto looked back on his own batting, jokingly saying, "On the third day of the camp, the batter finally came to the side of the right batter."
On top of that, she said, "I think that I can practice very well. I want to practice every day."