Catcher Torao Matsukawa, who is in his second season at the professional baseball Lotte, unveiled his voluntary training in Saitama City and said, "I want to do my best to contribute to the team with better results than last year."
Last season, when Matsukawa joined the team in first place in the draft, he became the third rookie catcher from high school in professional baseball history to start in the opening game. , Appeared in 76 games and showed his presence.
On the 27th, a voluntary training session was held at Lotte Urawa Baseball Stadium in Saitama City.
While Matsukawa received high praise from the leaders for his catching and lead, his batting average last season was 10%, 7 minutes and 3 minutes, so improving his hitting power is an issue.
Even in the practice on the 27th, I had the batting pitcher throw slow balls at the indoor practice field, and I was hitting while checking my form one by one.
Matsukawa said, "While hitting slow balls, I was conscious of which points I should focus on to get strong hits. I want to be able to hit more than 20% of the time." I was talking about goals with specific numbers.
He also said, "As a team, we aim to win the championship, and as an individual, we want to do our best to contribute to the team for the year, achieving better results than last year."