The struggles of the first ball from working adult baseball: DeNA Takeda Yu's balls should be refined, mistakes that should not be committed
Tamura Fujio (65), who has trained young players as a Chunichi 2nd-Tail battery coach until 2019, checks out the current situation of players who have caught their eye on the farm and the promising young players. This time, we will be focusing on DeNA's first draft pick, right-handed pitcher Takeda Yu (26 = Mitsubishi Heavy Industries WEST).
Professional baseball
[Serial 214]
DeNA Takeda's pitching explored the current challenges and possibilities.
After hearing about the starting pitcher, I felt that I was finally able to see Takeda pitching. I've never had a chance up until now. So far, he has pitched in nine games on the farm and has lost 0 wins and 5 losses. It's hard to win. I asked about it because there was a trainee in charge of the composition, but the impression that he was struggling because he was unable to demonstrate his true strength.
He is the number one draft from a working adult. His heart is not calm. I haven't been keeping track of the original pitching since I was a working adult, but I was curious to see what challenges and strengths will be found in farm games.
First of all, his pitch speed was around 144 km/h, and his pitch was the fastest.
However, on this day he reached 148kg. The slider and fork were both reasonably accurate. There were only two curveballs, so I can't decide whether he'll be able to compete in professionals unless he watched a little more, but overall I felt that 40 pitches on that day were decent.
Allowed one run in three innings. All of the two strikeouts he stole were sliders. One of them controlled the right-handed batter's outside corner and took a miss. The rest of the game is a left-handed batter who bending into the strike zone from the outside corner, and strikes out at the back door. It feels like a unique personality that both left and right batters can miss a swing with sliders on the outside corners.
With the results of this day, that is, it cannot be immediately confirmed that it will work even in the first team, but if he can fully utilize the backdoors of left-handed batters, it will become a weapon for Takeda.
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Born on October 24th, 1959 in Narashino, Chiba.
He joined Nippon Ham as the sixth pick in the draft from Kanto No. 1 to 1977. In 1993, he won the Golden Glove Award for the first time.
In the 1993 off-season, Giants' manager Nagashima received a love call from him as a free agent (remaining at Nippon Ham), and in the 1996 off-season, then manager Oh (current chairman) decided to transfer to Daiei (now SoftBank) directly via telephone. From 2007, he joined the cabinet at the request of Coach Chunichi Ochiai.
The catcher was highly praised by ON and Ochiai, but Tamura firmly adheres to the stance that “it's not something you'll ever tell anyone about this story.” After 42 years of professional baseball, he became a commentator. He has played in a total of 1,552 professional games, 1,123 hits and 110 home runs.
