Major League Baseball Angels Shohei Otani entered a camp in Arizona on the 15th and started his sixth year in the Major League by practicing pitching in the bullpen from the first day.
The Angels started a pitcher and catcher battery group camp in Tempe, Arizona on the 15th, and Otani, who has been training independently at the campsite since late January, entered the stadium after 9:30 am.
It was a cold 8 degrees Celsius in Arizona that morning, and Ohtani carefully warmed up by stretching his shoulders and hitting the ball against the wall before putting on his uniform and playing catch with starting pitcher Sandoval. Did.
And from the first day, he immediately entered the bullpen and threw 37 pitches, and according to the young catcher O'Hoppy who received the ball, he threw all types of pitches except curveballs.
Ohtani had a device on his left arm sleeve for exchanging signs with the catcher, and he would touch his left sleeve for each pitch to sign for the type of pitch.
Otani, who has started his sixth year in the major leagues, plans to leave the camp and join the Japanese national team after throwing once in an open game in order to participate in the WBC = World Baseball Classic to be held next month. is.