soul of baseball

Chapter 550 Yuri said that Qin Qin is not good enough
"Yes!" KK answered the question about his favorites without any hesitation: "I love all kinds of sinker pitchers! This is the commonality of every catcher. He will always have a special liking for pitchers who are good at a certain type of pitch. , what about you? What kind of ball do you like best?"

What these words said made Shen Qin want to beat him up in the first half, but made him a little confused in the second half. He had never thought about this kind of problem before, or he had never heard similar words.

wrong!Yes, Yuri said something similar, how did he say it back then?It's like, 'I think those pitchers who dare to hit the red straight ball are the cutest! '!
Shen Qin hurriedly pushed the man into the car, and ran back home in a hurry.

The yard of Yuri’s house is well-arranged. Just like any professional player, he also set up a small infield and a pair of practice facilities. At the moment, a group of people are watching Coach practice there~
Shen Qin rushed to Yuri's side: "Yuri!!! Do you have a pitcher that you particularly like?"

Yuri wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Why do you ask this suddenly?"

"Tell me quickly!"

"Of course there is. It's a bit funny to say it. I like the basic four-seam fastball the most. It's probably because most hitters are better at hitting this kind of ball. I like challenges in my bones. Others think the better the ball is , the more I want to make them unable to fight."

Shen Qin paused, and after thinking about it, it was true that he had never missed any of Yuri's games, and his ball distribution accounted for a large proportion of four-seam fastballs.

If other catchers use subtle variations of the pitcher's ball to fool the batter, then Yuri uses the simplest ball type and adds his own ball to tease the batter. The former is done by pitching and catching, while the latter is controlled by the catcher. .

I really like the challenge! "So you really like being a catcher?"

Yuri was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "I like it as much as you do!"

Shen Qin blinked, and the obsession with squatting and catching was still fresh in his memory, so he felt a little embarrassed, and asked again when he was about to speak: "Then what kind of ball do you like best? "

What kind of ball do you like?Shen Qin really wanted to say that he likes sinkers the most. After all, Coach is also the best at throwing this kind of ball. Still judging from the first thought in my heart, it seems that this is not the case.

"Then what, has the era of the sinker passed? My friend, who I met in Taiwan, is trying to make a data model. He said that the hit rate of the sinker this year is high, and the usage rate has also increased. decline."

"Is your friend a top student?" Although the topic changed a bit stiffly, Yuri still shook his head: "Do you mainly want Coach to change the ball type? This is different. Yuri's hook is more than [-] meters. , it can be said to be a very different sinker, and this is about the two-seam fastball. Is the usage rate of this ball itself declining? Or is it that hitters are becoming more and more accustomed to playing this kind of ball?"

"Good pitching can provide special coordination. Just mix it up and use it. There is no saying that any kind of ball will not work."

"If you want to talk about the batting rate, it is not accurate enough. At least among the hitters I know and study, everyone is best at hitting the four-seam fastball. There are no exceptions. It can only be said that there have been more researches on the sinker recently. "Said Yuri blinked: "Hasn't Coach been caught in the latest game? It's normal, but the key to the problem is the catcher. If I were you, the matchmaking at that time would not be like this, Coach If you are very persistent, you can go up and reason with him, and if you don’t listen, you can change players. How come you are not so persistent when you meet him? You must prioritize the interests of the team in the game.”

Shen Qin snorted, he was educated.

Yuri squeezed his face angrily: "I don't have time to study the statistics of college baseball, but I know that the sinker is for hitting. You need to use your brain as a catcher. You want to use the sinker. It's a very wrong idea to strike out the opponent with the ball. Of course, it's okay to strike out, but the sinker is a lure ball, let it attract the hitter to hit. Even if it is hit out, it can only form a soft ground ball or a high fly ball, this is the essence of the effect of the sinker."

"It's a test of the catcher, Qin Qin, you have nothing to say about your strikes, but you have too little experience in squatting catches, or you have faced too few good hitters at this stage, and you don't have enough samples to support various experiments and theories, so don't Hurry up, when you become a professional, each team has so many games a year, and there are various analysis data to assist, then rely on your memory to learn." Shen Qin moved his head over, and said Snorting twice, to be honest, he has been a little narcissistic in this regard for the past few years, what a great hitter, and he is also very good as a catcher, watching stealing bases, watching the ball distribution ~ but now I admire the most. Li gave a veto: "I'm a little sad!"

Haha~ Yuri laughed and touched his head to show comfort: "You are still young!"

"But you've got the Golden Gloves at my age!"

puff! "That's my best?"

"Humph!"

Yuri stopped laughing and said seriously: "Qin Qin, dear, we are different. I was born in a baseball country, and my father is a professional player. Well, he is a second baseman, but my two brothers are both in the major leagues. A top catcher, my toy was baseball since I was a child. I started receiving professional training as soon as I could run. I usually watched various games in my free time. When I was 15 years old, I entered the local professional league. At the age of 18, I signed a contract with the major league. To put it into perspective, when I won my first Gold Glove, I already had six or seven years of professional experience.”

"The reason why professional players are called professional players is that apart from the difference in ability between them and amateur players, they also enjoy the highest level of competition, the best data resources, experience is something that depends on accumulation, wait for you Stepping into the pros, even in the minor leagues, you get a very different feeling than college baseball."

Shen Qin was a little confused: "Then is it a waste for me to play in college for three years?"

Yuri pushed the person away helplessly: "My big doctor regrets it now? Of course not. After you enter the minor leagues, you will meet those teenagers, so you will naturally know the difference. It's useless for me to talk about it." , I didn’t go to college either! Okay, that’s enough for this topic, we’re practicing ball!” Then he waved to KK behind him: “Are you a new friend?”

KK responded: "It's also a new teammate who just transferred to another school. I will be Coach's exclusive catcher in the future, and I can also serve as DH at ordinary times."

puff!Shen Qin went crazy, Yuri laughed again, maybe there are many things that I don't need to worry about now?Good thing!

(End of this chapter)