At a professional baseball draft meeting, Sota Mizuguchi of Kyoto University, who was nominated by Softbank as the 7th place in training, responded to an interview with NHK, revealing his joy at being nominated and his feelings of swaying whether to join the team as a training player.
Mizuguchi is 194 centimeters tall and has a fastball of 152 kilometers per hour. He is the second Kyoto University player to be selected after former pitcher Eisuke Tanaka, who joined Lotte in 2014 in second place in the draft. rice field.
Mizuguchi responded to an interview with NHK on the 21st about his impressions of being nominated, saying, "I've been playing baseball with the goal of being nominated in the draft. However, when my name was called, I was very happy that what I had been doing was recognized as correct."
Pitcher Mizuguchi was studying in a medical department where he could obtain a physical therapist qualification, and had practical training at a hospital for several months leading up to the spring of his fourth year. It means that there was a time when it was not.
Mizuguchi said, "It wasn't that I was evaluated as an immediate force, but I think that I was evaluated as having room for growth that would allow me to grow significantly in the next two or three years. I think professional baseball is a very tough world, but I think it's a straight line and a characteristic. I think that there is still room for growth, including falling curveballs.If I can grow as a professional, I should be able to pass, and I think I won't know until I try."
Before the draft meeting, Mizuguchi expressed his intention not to become a professional if he was nominated for training, but he said that he was shaken by the fact that he was nominated, saying, "I was also a SoftBank player. I have heard from the university coach that the environment is in place for the players to grow.I would like to come to a conclusion while talking objectively with my parents and other people."