Nippon-Ham Tomakomai Komazawa University pitcher Oumi Ito No. 1 draft meeting October 22 18:09
At the draft meeting held on the 26th of this month, professional baseball team Nippon-Ham announced that Tomakomai Komazawa University pitcher Tomakomai Komazawa will be nominated in first place.
23-year-old pitcher Ito is a right-handed pitcher with a fastball of 156km and a variety of changing balls.
Originally from Shikabe Town, Hokkaido, he participated in Senbatsu in the spring of 2014 as a second year student at Komadai Tomakomai High School, and won a shutout victory in the first round.
After graduating from high school, he advanced to Komazawa University, but dropped out in the fall of 1st year and re-entered Tomakomai Komazawa University in Hokkaido, where he participated in the league match from the spring of the second grade and led the team to the league victory for the first time in eight seasons. I did.
Pitcher Ito was also selected to represent Japan at the university and contributed to the team's victory at the USA-Japan Collegiate Baseball Championship last year.
At this year's draft meeting, Nippon-Ham praised pitcher Ito the most among the university students who had good pitchers, and decided to nominate him in first place.
Regarding the nomination of local players in 1st place, Director Kuriyama said, "I think it is very good that Hokkaido players are nominated at the top of the draft for the future of Hokkaido. Hokkaido is also a disaster. I want to work together to give them energy. "
When asked if he was competing with another team, he said, "If you are told to draw a lottery, (I) will definitely draw it."