Nomura: From test students to King of the Crown Crown paves the way with data

Mr. Nomura From test student to King Mikami Paving the way with data utilization

Mr. Nomura who set up many monuments as a batter during his active life. What made this possible was not only to rely on batting techniques and physical abilities, but also to quickly identify the opponent's pitcher's habit and incorporate data.

Nomura, who entered the Nankai as a test student, hit 30 home runs in the fourth year, shining as the home run king, and hitting 30% of the batting average.

During the next year, the number of strikeouts increased, and the batting average fell from 20 to 5 to 6 minutes. No matter how much the bat was shaken and practiced, it was said that the timing was not right for the curve, and the player could not hit it, as the customer stopped saying, "Hey, Nomura.

"I'm clumsy and can't cope when the reading goes off." Nomura, who realized his limitations, changed his mindset to improve reading accuracy.

In a major league-related book, "Pitchers should be 100% deciding whether to throw a straight or a changing ball when they hit the sign after seeing the sign of the catcher. So I found 80% of the pitchers thrown. "

The point of view that I felt that I was not in the Japanese baseball world at that time to observe the opponent and see through the pitches. Inspired by this, Nomura continued to look at the pitching forms of various pitchers, finding out the small habits that differed for each pitch. He says that he can read more and more what kind of ball comes.

Nomura also examined not only the pitcher's habit, but also the catcher's pitch, and thought that he would have an advantage as a batter.

I asked the scorer to determine the lead tendency from various data such as what kind of pitch is being thrown on which course for each count. These analyzes are now common sense, but at that time they had not yet progressed. Mr. Nomura took advantage of such data to capture the pitchers who were on average, and in 1965 became the first post-war Triple Crown.

Mr. Nomura climbed up from a test student and thought of a breakthrough with his own head when hitting a wall, and opened the way. In 27 years of active life, he set a number of records, including the 2nd place in all 3017 games, 2901 hits, and 657 home runs.