baseball

Gathering enough people to practice baseball can be quite difficult. However, inviting just one other person is usually easier. This time, I'd like to introduce various baseball drills that can be done with just two people. The most basic and effective drill is, of course, catchball...

For those who have no experience in school baseball and are starting out in amateur leagues, I think the biggest difference lies in "throwing the ball." Throwing is a skill that greatly affects fielding and pitching. Ideally, you want to master it. However, the correct way to throw a ball in baseball...

The 2018 season is over, and the players' performances are starting to settle down. Before the season started, I made predictions about which players would perform well for the Chunichi Dragons this year, so I'd like to look back and reflect on them. I feel like I was wrong many times, but I'll review them carefully. Next to the results...

There was news that Masahiro Araki of the Chunichi Dragons will retire at the end of the 2018 season. I had a feeling that this day would come soon, but I never imagined it would be this year, so I was very surprised. Since I started watching professional baseball in 2004...

This article explains the meaning of the professional baseball terms "depth" and "depth chart." Using the Chunichi Dragons at the end of the 2018 season as an example, we have created an actual depth chart.

This article explains the meaning and usage of "defensive reinforcement" in professional baseball. Using the 2018 Chunichi Dragons' strategy as an example, we examine whether it's appropriate to reinforce the defense when leading in the late stages of a game.

Even after years of playing baseball, there are always new discoveries to be made about batting. This time, I'd like to write an article about something I recently noticed regarding field of vision while batting. For some people, consciously focusing on this might dramatically improve their contact rate. Also, I'll be writing about other things I've written about in amateur baseball...

This article examines the "left-right bias" in professional baseball (the common belief that left-handed batters have an advantage against right-handed pitchers, and right-handed batters have an advantage against left-handed pitchers) using actual data. We also consider the head-to-head records of right-handed vs. right-handed and left-handed vs. left-handed batters.

This time, I'd like to introduce some practice equipment for amateur baseball. The product is called "Hopping Ball" (UNIX). It costs less than 1000 yen, so if you're interested, please give it a try. This is also a summary page of other articles I've written about amateur baseball. [...rest of the text is cut off.].

This article discusses outfield defense in amateur baseball, covering topics beyond the beginner level.