Pitcher Yu Iwasaki, who had the most saves last season, joined the camp of Hanshin's first-team professional baseball team on the 16th.He has made smooth adjustments and expressed his determination, saying, ``All the pitchers should raise each other's spirits and ``win with the bullpen.''
At Hanshin's Okinawa camp, players who were entrusted with making adjustments in the second team, including pitchers Iwasaki and Yuta Iwasada, who were entrusted with the defense midway through last season and won the title for most saves with 35, and pitcher Koya Shimamoto, made their pitches on the 16th. From then on, I joined the 1st Army camp.
Pitcher Iwasaki, who will be 33 years old this year, is making adjustments by understanding the conditions down to the smallest detail, so he threw 60 pitches in the bullpen while checking his feel, focusing on fastballs.
Regarding his adjustment, Pitcher Iwasaki said, ``It's going well in my own way,'' and expressed his determination to lead the pitching staff as a pillar of the relief team toward the team's first consecutive championship in history.
Pitcher Iwasaki said, ``Last year, I said ``we will win with the bullpen,'' and we need to continue this this year as well.You can't win if you do your best alone, so I want all the pitchers to improve each other.'' I did.