At the professional baseball team Seibu's camp in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, pitcher Natsuki Takeuchi, who joined the team in first place in the draft and is aiming to enter the starting rotation, entered the bullpen and threw a ball with good control, mixing a fastball with a breaking ball. I checked the feel.
Pitcher Takeuchi is a left-handed pitcher with precise control who joined the team in first place in the draft after competition between three teams, and is aiming to join the starting rotation.
On the 9th, the last day of the first round, I entered the bullpen for the second time in this camp.
Pitcher Takeuchi's goal during the camp is to improve the accuracy of each pitch so that he can compete with all types of pitches. I threw in 50 pitches and checked the feel.
The catcher was Yuto Koga, a third-year player who played in a team-leading 100 games last year, and was nodding his head when he was occasionally called out for a ``nice ball.''
After the first round of his first camp, pitcher Takeuchi calmly looked back and said, ``I've seen all the players I've watched on TV, so I'm tired mentally, or maybe I'm tired other than physically, but this is also a learning experience.'' Ta.
He also expressed his enthusiasm, saying, ``I'm aiming to be a starter, so I want to work hard from the second season onward so that I can acquire a breaking ball that allows me to whiff and the stamina to compete for a year.''
Manager Kazuo Matsui, who inspected the bullpen, commented, ``I watched the pitches from the side so that they didn't get too far behind, but I felt that the pitches were of good quality and had good angles.''