The professional baseball Yakult camp started in Urasoe City, Okinawa Prefecture on the 1st, and Tetsuto Yamada, who became the new captain, greeted his teammates and called for "let's work together to create a good team."
The Yakult camp started in a quiet atmosphere that was different from the usual year, with no spectators in the stadium to prevent the infection of the new coronavirus, and only the music and the voices of the players echoed in the empty stadium.
Yamada, who remained after signing a new seven-year contract for this off, volunteered to become a captain, hoping to change his position and lead to growth.
On the 1st, I put a new captain mark on the left arm of the uniform and greeted my teammates before the practice. "I think there are many things I can't rely on, so please help me. I need competition and cooperation. I think, so let's work together to create a good team. "
Then, with veteran Seiichi Uchikawa, who joined from Softbank, I returned the lunch break and practiced batting, and spent about 30 minutes.
Yamada said, "I was nervous because I had to take the lead and do my best. Ideally, I would take the lead and produce results. The numbers for the last two years have not reached the target triple three at all, so I want to make adjustments with the feeling that this is the case. "