High school baseball in Hokkaido this year was very busy. To be more precise, high school baseball until this summer…a year from last fall.
Over the last couple of decades, I was surprised to see players of a level that had rarely appeared in high school baseball in Hokkaido, especially in the position of “pitcher”, one after another.
Last season, a full-fledged left-hander named Taisei Kimura appeared at Hokkaido High School. Armed with a fastball with an average speed of 140 km/h and a sharp slider with a curve-like drop, he built a mountain of strikeouts, and I described this talented left arm as “the No. 1 southpaw in the Hokkaido high school baseball world for the last 30 years.” Pitcher Kimura was nominated by Softbank in 3rd place in the draft last fall and advanced to professional baseball.
Scale from Tomakomai “since Masahiro Tanaka”
And this season. In Hokkaido, he is a full-fledged right-hand man with scale and potential since Komadai Tomakomai High School and Masahiro Tanaka (now Rakuten).Tomakomai Central High School, Yuta Saito (189cm87kg, right-handed and left-handed)When appears as a don, authentic talents appear on the left arm as if chasing Hokkai High School Taisei Kimura last year (After writing this manuscript, Carp announced the nomination of pitcher Saito in the first draft. It is the first time in 10 years that Carp has announced the nomination of the first high school pitcher).
Tokai University Sapporo High School, Keito Mombetsu (182 cm 85 kg, left-handed),Takashi Shiriuchi, Takumi Sakamoto (180 cm, 85 kg, left-handed, left-handed *Comments from the author in the latter half of the article)In addition to this, the fastest 148 km at the Sapporo branch tournament in the summer……Sapporo Otani high and Taisei Moritani (172 cm 84 kg, left-handed right-handed) who participated in this summer’s Koshien tournament can be mentioned as one of them.
In addition, Odaka Asahikawa, Shoya Ikeda (182 cm 79 kg, R/R) who participated in the Koshien this summer from “North Hokkaido” and Ryota Yamabo (184 cm 82 kg, R/R). Even as a fielder, Sora Wakayama (180cm, 84kg, left-handed pitcher), a power-hitting first baseman from Hokusei Gakuen University High School (180cm, 84kg, left-handed hitter), who is unknown but has left the high school. Tokai University Sapporo High School’s Yu Karakawa catcher (176 cm 82 kg, R/R), also known as Tokai University Sapporo High School, Saito, Monbetsu, Sakamoto, and Karakawa are just waiting for “October 20” after submitting their professional application form. It has become.
Saito: “I like reading novels.”
Around the end of May this year, Yuta Saito of Tomakomai Chuo High School was seen at the Hokkaido Spring Tournament (Sapporo, Maruyama Stadium).
I will never forget the magnificence of his standing on the mound.
187 cm 85 kg according to the materials at the time… More than the size of the figure, it was the biggest competition in Hokkaido, and it was attractive that it was so big.
The size of the area of the uniform when viewed from the front represents the size of the skeleton as it is, and promised a physical future that can increase the volume as much as possible with practice and nutrition.
In addition, the strength of the back muscles that support the weight of the internal organs concentrated in the front of the body from behind. Above all, it is the firm confidence in his own “throwing”. I can win, I will win! If you don’t have that pride, there’s no way you can look down on the batter at bat from above.
