Professional baseball ORIX Yamamoto aims to learn change-up February 20 20:36
In the fourth year of professional baseball ORIX, pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, aiming to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, threw in with a bullpen for the first time on the third day after entering the camp, aiming to learn a change-up to widen the pitch.
Pitcher Yamamoto won the Pa League's best ERA last season when he changed his starting position, and played an active role as a set upper to connect to a pitcher who won in the international game `` Premier 12 '' last November Did.
On the 3rd, pitcher Yamamoto, aiming to participate in the Tokyo Olympics, entered the bullpen for the first time on the third day after entering the camp, and threw about 20 balls with the catcher sitting.
On the 3rd, the first bullpen was used to check the form and straight growth, but he also pitched only two new change-ups.
Since pitcher Yamamoto has a ball speed of about 140 km even with a changing ball, aiming to miss the timing by adding a slow changeup to the pitch, Shota Imanaga of DeNA who was a teammate and teammate of Premier 12 Japan It was learned from how to throw.
Yamamoto said, "I'd like to practice change-ups over time. I want to get good results in the season and connect it to the Tokyo Olympics."