Professional baseball Rakuten launched the Okinawa camp, which lasted about three weeks, on the 22nd.
Director Kazuhisa Ishii felt that he was able to improve his performance by seeing other players, regarding the camp that attracted attention due to the return of pitcher Masahiro Tanaka for the first time in eight years.
The camp that Rakuten's 1st Army has been going to in Kin Town, Okinawa Prefecture from the 1st of this month has reached its final day on the 22nd.
Pitcher Tanaka, who returned to Rakuten for the first time in eight years and joined the team from the 6th of this month, worked hard in defensive practice with 10 other pitchers.
After receiving the instruction "If everyone can catch the ball twice in a row, it will end", and if the last pitcher Tanaka takes it, it will be over, but due to the bad luck that the hit ball is greatly irregular in front of me, I missed it, I regret it There was also one act of catching.
After this, pitcher Tanaka entered the bullpen for the sixth time at the camp and threw 24 fastballs lightly only on the straight to check the form.
The team practice on the final day ended in about four hours, and players and leaders gathered on the ground.
Then, with the luck of "winning the championship so that everyone can do" two "smiles", we closed the camp at 2:22 pm on February 22nd, ending the camp that lasted about three weeks.
Regarding the camp that attracted attention with the addition of pitcher Tanaka and pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa, who was the first-ranked rookie in the draft, Ishii said, "It was a shame that the fans and Okinawans didn't see it, but other players. I think we were able to improve our performance by being seen in the media. "
Pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa is expected to join the starting rotation from the opening
Pitcher Takahisa Hayakawa, the first-ranked rookie in the draft of professional baseball and Rakuten, is expected to join the starting rotation from the opening.
This was revealed by director Kazuhisa Ishii on the final day of Rakuten's 1st Army camp held in Kin Town, Okinawa Prefecture on the 22nd.
Among them, Director Ishii named Hayakawa as pitchers to be included in the starting rotation, following four pitchers with a track record of Masahiro Tanaka, Hideaki Wakui, Takayuki Kishi, and Takahiro Norimoto. ..
After that, he said, "I nominated him because I thought I could do this much from the time of the draft meeting, but I feel that I still have some spare capacity. In the season, I think that things will not go well and I will definitely have a hard time, but that's all. I think it's a pitcher that has the power to repel. "
Pitcher Hayakawa is a left-handed pitcher with a fastball of 155km and a variety of changing balls. On the 20th, he struck out from No. 4 Sho Nakata in a practice game with Nippon-Ham, which was his first pitching in the actual game after entering the pro. With a sense of stability away from the rookie, such as robbing him, he kept the second inning without any runs.
Pitcher Hayakawa was enthusiastic, "I want to be fully aware of the starting rotation and continue to do what I can."
At the camp launch on the 22nd, pitcher Hayakawa joined the tejime next to Masahiro Tanaka, with the players around him wearing white uniforms and only one person wearing an enji-colored training suit. ..
Regarding this, pitcher Hayakawa said, "I put a white uniform in the baggage to be sent to Shizuoka, the next expedition destination, and forgot to bring it." I was told, "he said with a laugh.