Nippon Ham rookie Hiromi Itoh is expected to be additionally convened as the Japan National Baseball Team for the Tokyo Olympics.
The members who have been appointed as the Japanese national team for baseball at the Tokyo Olympics were announced on the 16th of last month, but on the 3rd, pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano, who was expected to be the starting pitcher, declined the national team due to poor conditions.
For this reason, as a result of the selection of alternative pitchers by Japan national team coach Atsunori Inaba and the national team coaches, it was found in interviews with the people concerned that the policy was decided to convene Nippon-Ham's rookie Ito.
Pitcher Ito joined Tomakomai Komazawa University in 1st place in the draft, and from the first year, he started 12 games with a variety of fastballs around 150km and sliders, 6 wins and 4 losses, and an ERA of 3 leagues. It marks the 2.65th place.
In the interleague game, he climbed three games and won three wins, with an earned run average of 0.90.
In the pitcher of the informal member, the pitcher on the left of the giant, Kota Nakagawa has also declined the representative due to injury, and the leaders of the Japanese national team have decided to convene an additional pitcher Kodai Senga of Softbank.