The day when the WBC winning pitcher coach regretted “I messed up the baseball life of a certain pitcher” … the real intention of Lotte Rihito Yoshii, who wrote “Advice is a hindrance”-Professional baseball-Number Web

It is a story when I was coaching the second army.

There was a pitcher who was fast and who threw a tremendous ball when he was in good form. However, he was not very good at using his body, and had the strength to bounce like a fish washed ashore. He can’t skillfully control his power, and can only always pitch with all his might.

In the game, if you push hard on the mound, you will suddenly not be able to take strikes, and there is no sense of stability at all. Seeing that, I imagined from my own experience that this pitcher would do well if he relaxed about 20% of his strength.

The advice “if you throw with a power of about 60” is…

“Well, shouldn’t you relax a little more? When you’re on the mound, you’ll have a power of 120. If you throw with a power of about 60, you’ll be in good shape at about 100.” Throw it with that feeling once.”

The player was also aware of his weakness of pushing himself, so I was convinced.

“Yes. I thought so too. I’ll try.”

I said that and went back to practice, but when I saw it, I was throwing with about 30 power. Since it’s practice, a strength of around 30 is fine, and when it comes to competition, I’m going to have to use my strength, so I thought it would just get better.

However, even in matches, he throws with a power of 30 to 40. He usually has a maximum speed of 150km on the straight, but he can only do about 120km. It’s true that I don’t have the strength, so I can throw it in the strike zone. But for the batter, it’s a speed that’s about to hit, so it’s fun to hit. This is bad. he called him

“It looks like you’re not putting any effort into it. It’s funyafunya. How do you feel when you’re throwing it? Is that it?”

“Yes! It feels really good!”

I can’t help it. After the game, she immediately showed the video.

“In the game, it’s like this.”

“eh?”

Finally, he also realized that he was not putting effort into his pitching.

“Well, this advice doesn’t suit you, so let’s stop. Starting tomorrow, let’s go back to the way it was.”

However, even if you try to return it to its original state, it will not return to its original state. I lost track of my strength when pitching. He didn’t perform well after that and was traded at the end of the season. He was fired in a year even at the transfer destination, and his life as a professional baseball player was over.

Remember that advice is a hindrance

My advice derailed his baseball career. Reflection and impatience were born when he gave the worst advice as a coach. The only good thing was that he returned to the team and started working at the front desk. He is relieved not to get lost in the streets.

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