[Hanshin Camp] Teruaki Sato vows to learn new forms and overcome challenges

“I want to be able to show stability in both my batting and defense.” Speaking about his goals for this season, Hanshin's player Teruaki Sato is heading into camp vowing to learn a new form and overcome challenges in order to win back-to-back championships for the first time in team history.

Sato, a left-handed batter, experienced his first drop in the second team in two years last season, but since his rookie year, he has hit 24 home runs and 92 RBIs, his third consecutive year of 20 or more, contributing to Japan's No. 1 ranking for the first time in 38 years. Did.

What he is aiming for is a sense of stability in order to become a constant presence for the team, which aims to win back-to-back championships for the first time in team history this season.

In an effort to improve his batting, which has had a lot of ups and downs, he traveled to America in the off-season to train.

Under these circumstances, I spend my days focusing on the camp's theme of ``hitting with my body, not just with the feel of my hands.''

During batting practice during lunch on the 4th, he made 73 swings and 11 of them went over the fence, all while keeping in mind the opposite direction, and is feeling a positive response to his new form.

On the other hand, defense is something I work on as hard as batting.

Last season, we had the second worst number of errors in the league, leaving us with a big problem.

In two of the four days since the first day of camp, even after the general practice, he has been working hard on catching and throwing from the basics, taking knocks under coach Toshifumi Baba and others.

If he can reach 30 home runs for the first time in his career and overcome the challenges of defense, the team will surely get closer to achieving the consecutive victories that the team is aiming for.

Sato expressed his determination, saying, ``I've been able to do what I wanted to do. I want to hit 30 hits, and I want to hit 40 hits.I want to work on each thing one by one so that I can show a sense of stability in both my batting and defense.'' I did.