This is the third day of the professional baseball Chunichi camp held in Chatan Town, Okinawa Prefecture.
Yuki Okabayashi, who won the title of most hits last season, is enthusiastically working on base running practice to increase the number of stolen bases by making use of his characteristic speed.
20-year-old Okabayashi won the title of most hits with 161 hits in the Central League with Keita Sano of DeNA in the third season last season, and also won the Golden Glove Award and the Best Nine. I was.
In this spring camp, one of the goals is to increase the number of stolen bases, which was 2nd in the league last year, 24, and on the 3rd, Masahiro Araki, who has experience as a stolen base king, will start the day with infield base running coach Masahiro Araki. I was instructed on basic body movements such as posture and how to apply strength to the legs.
After practice, Okabayashi said, "For people like me, stealing bases is important, so I want to work hard at practice without neglecting the basics. I think I'm in a position where I still have to make an appeal." I was talking to