Pitcher Kodai Senga, who transferred from professional baseball and Softbank to the Mets of the major leagues this season, conducted voluntary training at the team's campsite and practiced pitching in the bullpen.
Pitcher Senga entered Port St. Lucie, Florida, the campsite on the 8th, before the Mets' battery group camp started on the 15th of this month, and on the 9th, he practiced pitching in the bullpen for the first time.
In the video provided by the team, Senga, wearing the team's blue T-shirt, was caught throwing the ball while checking his grip for each ball, and the gesture of throwing a breaking ball was also seen.
Chiga “Florida is “very hot””
In an interview, he said with a smile that Florida was "very hot," and said, "I'm very excited and happy to be in a rotation with major league pitchers such as Scherzer and Verlander for the Mets. I am looking forward to how I will grow by playing together."
When asked about the pronoun "haunted fork", he replied, "It's difficult, but it's the origin of when you see the ball and shake it, it disappears, so I want to do my best to make it like that." I was smiling.
In addition, during the TV broadcast of the Super Bowl of the NFL = American Professional Football League to be held on the 12th, commercials of the team that flowed around New York, which is his hometown, were also released, and Senga responded to inquiries from fans, saying, "A ghost fork is just a ball. It's a seed, so it's not a ghost."