soul of baseball

Chapter 458 Trading
"Hicks! Why are you here? Sleep in the cowshed, you!"

The boy calmly pushed the sunglasses: "I didn't sleep! I was watching the game!"

Kara tried her best to restrain her anger: "Don't you know that you might play today? What are you doing here?"

Hicks jumped up happily, and flicked his fluffy brown hair: "I, I don't know! Am I really going to board the board?"

"What were you doing when it was arranged before!!!"

Sleep~ You can’t talk about sleep, skip~skip~ Hicks showed his big white teeth: "I, my first time, I went wrong! Go now! Coach! I’ll go first~"

"get out!"

Shen Qin sighed from the sidelines. The competition for pitchers is actually fierce and terrifying. Leaving aside the 40-man roster, there are more than ten pitchers in the current 25-man roster alone. The original five-man starting rotation is now Only Porcello and Scherzer are confirmed, and the other two positions are rotated by bullpens. Whoever can stabilize during the season will have the opportunity to take the starting position.

The number of outfielders and pitchers is actually about the same, but half of them share 8 positions, while the other half compete for a single pitcher's mound!

Too intense!

Everyone wants to stand up.

Hicks is naturally the same. He and Shen Qin are in the same class, and the guy who has never stood on the mound in the first half of the game is naturally more looking forward to it.In fact, it is not the first time that he fell asleep on the bench. After all, in a 3-hour baseball game, as a substitute who cannot play, he has to sit on the hard bench to watch the game and analyze. It was such a painful thing that I couldn't concentrate forever!

Now, go to the bullpen!

Being a good bull is of course an extremely important process in becoming a starter!If this time the opening game is on the board!Then there will be more and more opportunities in the future.

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Because Kara has to be responsible for the catchers of several catchers, several super fireball men in the team were evenly distributed to Shen Qin and Salvador.And Hicks happens to belong to the latter. Although Shen Qin knows him better, he has never experienced the real feeling of catching the ball from the front. , of course I have to try my best to grasp more points.

DH is always relatively free, and there is only one chance to play in the whole round. Shen Qin followed Hicks who was walking down and touched quietly. Anyway, even if the opponent wants to play as a bull, it will be a matter of the second half of the game. Yes, there is still time!
"Hicks." Shen Qin went to the sink and had a "coincident encounter" with the other party. This was the first time he communicated with Hicks alone: ​​"What a coincidence."

Hicks turned his head, coincidence?What a coincidence?I have never seen this person greet anyone before: "What do you want to say?"

Didn't you ask something?It's not asking what's the matter!Instead, let the other party say anything, so it means that they will agree to everything?It was embarrassing for Shen Qin to speak like this, and it took a long time before he asked in a dull tone: "I, I haven't caught your ball, but you can tell from the sound that the tail of the ball is very good."

"You're just here to compliment me?"

Shen Qin's face turned red: "No, no, I want to ask you, do you want to be the starter?"

Haha~ Hicks was a little angry. He didn't understand how they could ask such a question because they were not familiar with each other at all: "What if it is? Do you want me to throw away this idea? So that it can be given to Kou Chi? Hey~ We are not even friends, right?"

Shen Qin choked, Hicks has always been the representative of the obedient boy, he didn't expect to be so fierce, how could he do such a thing~ hurriedly waved his hands and explained: "It's not what you think~"

"Heh~ what's that like?"

This is a bit embarrassing: "That's right, I want to ask you, can I come and help you squat and catch once in a while?"

"First have a good relationship and then make me compromise? Sorry, I'm not interested in Asians."

Although I really want to educate the racists, but after all, I still have to ask for help from others at the moment, and I can't put it like this, I think it will be clearer from that angle, of course, this is for Kou Chi. But let’s get along well, and I can squat and catch for you as long as you step on the board in the future. You know, I can grab more good shots for you!”

"I have Salvador here, so I won't trouble you!"

"Wait until the summer, he should enter the profession!"

That's right, the third graders are going to participate in the draft. Even if Hicks doesn't like Shen Qin, he can't deny the fact that he will definitely be the main catcher in the future. The help of the other party is also indispensable.

But~ "Not enough! You know how similar I am to Coach in certain balls, so it's not enough, not enough at all."

Shen Qin sighed: "Do you want to start first?"

Hicks became suspicious: "So what if you want to? So what if you don't want to?"

"If you think about it, I didn't say anything before. If you don't want to, let's talk about it." Shen Qin doesn't want to and will not bully children. If Hicks wants to start, then he will be in absolute competition with Coach On the other hand, it would be very unkind to do this again.

The man on the opposite side was silent for a long time before turning around and leaving the toilet, and was about to go around the passage to the cowshed.

"Hey, answer me first!"

Hicks still didn't speak, just raised his hand in an OK gesture.

"You say it's not enough!"

"Let's talk about it later!"

Shen Qin breathed a sigh of relief, the task was considered half completed, he hoped that Kou Chi and this similar guy could neutralize more.

In fact, if you really want him to say, Hicks is really not suitable for starting. There are too few types of balls. Coach is different.

Slider, sinker, and four-seam, which is equivalent to alternating left, center, and right in the horizontal direction. It is not a big problem if the bullpen comes out to throw one or two innings and the batter will not have a chance to adapt again, but if you want to start It will be more troublesome, and it is completely impossible to alternately suppress the hitters.

Fortunately, Hicks has no big heart, and knows what he wants and what is suitable for him!This is also really rare.

I just hate Asians~
In fact, after so many years, Shen Qin also knows this kind of thing, whether it is in school or on the team, there are many whites, Latinos, Africans, Asians~
In fact, if it is really targeted, Asians have the hardest time. I heard interviews with Asian players over there mentioning this issue. Naturally, the Major League Baseball community is dominated by Latinos and whites, and there are very few. It’s not that Asian players are being excluded intentionally, it’s just that language and cultural issues naturally isolate each other within and outside the circle~
Racial discrimination is inevitable!
Then you can only do your best and keep these things away actively!

(End of this chapter)