Mariners Kikuchi and Hirano enter the camp From the first day Bullpen Feb 14 15:56
Major league pitcher Yusei Kikuchi of Mariners and pitcher Yoshitoshi Hirano who joined this season entered a camp in Arizona on the 13th and practiced pitching with a bullpen from the first day.
Mariners' battery group camp will start in Peoria, Arizona on the 13th, and pitcher Kikuchi, who is celebrating his second year at Mariners, will be a free agent from Diamondbacks last season along with Hirano who signed a one-year contract with Mariners. I participated.
Both entered the bullpen from the first day and practiced pitching. Kikuchi pitched 45 pitches including fastballs, curves and change-ups, and the plain pitchers pitched side by side pitched 40 pitches with fastballs and folk balls. Was thrown.
Kikuchi pitcher kept his starting rotation last season, but his results were unsatisfactory, with 6 wins and 11 losses and an ERA of 5.46, pledging to leap this season.
"I was frustrated last year. It's a minimum goal to keep throwing for a year, and I want to leave the numbers so that everyone can recognize the axis of rotation."
Hirano is a new team, the same pitcher candidate as in the professional baseball and ORIX era. "I want to be able to pitch as much as possible on the team so that I can throw it. This is the most important issue. "