Japan National Team Inaba coach Lotte Taneichi staring at Feb. 6 at 19:15
Japan baseball coach Atsushi Inaba visited Lotte's professional baseball camp and visited pitching practice of Akiteru Taneichi, who won the team's eight wins last season.
Inaba has been on a campsite with 12 teams since 3rd of this month to select members for the Tokyo Olympics. On 6th, he visited Lotte camp in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa.
He watched the pitching practice of Taneichi pitcher who marked the team's top eight wins last year and 135th strikeout of 4th place in the league with a bullpen last year.
Taneichi, a 21-year-old pitcher, was led by Manager Inaba under the leadership of Japan in the World Cup under the age of 23 in October, and he won both games in the first two games.
Taneichi pitcher was working on correcting the form in order to lose his strength in takeback, and Inaba was saying after the pitching practice, "I'm watching closely".
Inaba said, "I thought that the speed and sharpness of the ball were growing. I've been in the candidate players all the time and I'd like to see it all the time. I'm looking forward to doing what I can do." I was talking.
Taneichi pitched with a bitter smile, saying, "The form has been messed up with conscious effort," and said, "I think that unless I pitch hard, I will not be able to be a representative, so I want to be able to make a good appeal from the start." He showed a strong desire for the Olympics.