soul of baseball

Chapter 187 Be Thick-Skinned During Competitions
Two outs, a man on first base, and Brave Church High School's fourth batter debut!
Shen Qin actually didn't have a good impression of third baseman Marcel.At that time, I was ridiculed for a long time when I sent fried beef dumplings to Coach.

But let's not comment on how to get along, but Shen Qin's physical fitness is indeed enviable.

Height advantage, muscular lines, explosive power ~ this makes him who has "grown up" wish to become an adult quickly.Even if there is no comparison, at least the gap can be narrowed.

Marcel is a very special hitter. When preparing to hit, the stick is almost vertical to the ground.

Unlike Shen Qin's way of swinging a big stick, Marcel's way of holding the stick is actually not easy to use the body's strength, and generally does not appear on strong sticks.

But Marcel's own physical strength is too strong!It fully makes up for this deficiency.

"Boom!"

The aluminum rod was swung out quickly, and after hitting the ball, the whole body twisted due to inertia, and the right knee fell to the ground.

The ball is hit!Marcel got up slowly, and the pitcher on the mound had squatted down with his head in his arms.

The sound is different whether the ball hits the center or the side. As soon as the crisp sound came out, everyone knew that something was going on.

Shen Qin looked up while running towards second base. He took off high and far, still flying, still flying~
Jump over the home run wall!
Jumped over the auditorium!

"Hey~" The audience exclaimed and turned their heads as the ball leaped.

gone!
Flew out of the field!
Tut tut!Shen Qin touched his nose while running, what is envy, jealousy and hatred.

That super-large home run that flew across the middle field just now~ Although Shen Qin hit a lot of home runs, they were all in the direction of the left and right field with a much shorter distance. What's more is a super elastic metal rod, and he can't do it!
This terrible power! !
……

After Shen Qin stepped on the home plate, he stood aside in embarrassment. According to the usual practice, at this moment, he should wait for Marcel who hit the home run to come back, and then give a congratulatory punch.

But the two hadn't communicated at all since the night of the dumpling incident, so it was a bit difficult.

Just as he was in trouble, his wrist was already lifted up by someone, and Marcel, who stepped on the home plate, looked at the shy Shen Qin and the hand that was held still slapped it when he ran past, and then Cai jumped, high-fived and cheered with his teammates who ran out of the lounge!
Shen Qin withdrew his hand, his head was pressed, and a smiling voice sounded: "The most important thing for Qin Qin at this moment is to practice thick skin! As long as it is on the court! Everyone has only one goal, then It's victory."

"Hmm." Shen Qin responded in a low voice, and took off his shock helmet, feeling warm in his heart.He thinks that the reason why he likes Coach so much must be because this tsundere child with a big heart actually has a very meticulous heart hidden under his heart.

I can always easily see through my embarrassment to help out~

"Good fight!" Coach jumped over and stood on the stairs in the rest area, and stretched out his hand to Shen Qin.

"Crack!" The hands touched together.

Seeing this, the team members at the back naturally stretched out their hands to congratulate: It was indeed a good game!nothing wrong.

Strike coach Torres saw that Shen Qin was wrapping grip tape (also called grip tape, which is a kind of tape-like object wrapped around wooden sticks in different colors) on new sticks. The stick depends on my own habits, it has the function of anti-skid and shock absorption): "Don't you try a metal stick? I see that your strength is actually very good. When the stick is broken, it is still so strong when you hit it. If you use a metal stick, the finger Might be a long shot."

"I heard from Kit that you haven't tried metal rods before. It's actually not difficult. You can easily adjust it with the foundation of wooden rods."

Shen Qin shook his head quickly after hearing this: "After getting used to the metal stick, you will have to get used to the wooden stick again in the future. Maybe the feel is not easy to get back, so let's forget it."

"With the metal rod you have the opportunity to hit more long hits."

"I'm sorry that I don't consider using metal rods." Shen Qin still refused. It is naturally very happy for him to be able to participate in various high school competitions, and it is of course important to get good results in them, but this does not That's no reason for him to give up a wooden stick and use a metal one.

Hitting a home run is exciting, but if he gives up the bat because of this, he will definitely regret it in the future.

After all, as his age and physical fitness increase, his strength will inevitably improve greatly, and by then, it will not be difficult to hit a home run in center field with a wooden bat.

And he will enter college in a few years. Baseball games at that age are not allowed to use current metal rods, because with the substantial increase in strength, it will be easy for players to use today's highly elastic metal rods. You can hit a powerful ball. If you don't hit someone well, it will be a terrible result.

Since wooden bats will be used in the future, why use metal bats for today's results?
It is not a simple matter to abandon the metal bat and adapt to the wooden bat. Therefore, most high school players will fall into a low ebb after entering the professional system after the draft, and will not gradually achieve results until they adapt to the wooden bat.

However, college players will adapt faster after the draft, because the college game limits the elasticity of the metal bat, making it not much different from the wooden bat, so the impact is much smaller than that of players who directly participated in the draft after graduating from high school.

Torres said with a smile: "But high school hitting scores are directly linked to the draft. Do you think everyone doesn't know the benefits of using wooden bats early? But what's the use of not getting results early? This is why most children now use metal bats. reason."

Shen Qin was a little curious: "Do you think I have the possibility of being selected?"

"Of course! Your striking skills! Your use of power! All aspects are good! If you use a metal rod to raise the various records, it will not be difficult."

Indeed, MLB selects thousands of people every year, and the chances of being selected are really not small, but it's a minor league!That's a farm!This was never Shen Qin's goal.

His attitude towards this is very firm: "I will not participate in the high school draft!"

Torres was really curious now: "Judging from your various skills, you should have received quite professional training, but you don't want to participate in the draft?"

"Oh no, I want to go to college first."

Torres looked at the child in front of him who was as fat as a baby and sighed in his heart, now even such a small child has such a plan for the future?
You must know that in the past few years, the number of drafts for high school students has always been greater than that of college students, and many of them also participated in the draft in high school, but they were relatively late in the round, and they were dissatisfied, so they chose to go to college again.

Once you give up the high school draft and choose to go to college, you must study for three years before you can participate in the draft again.

At this time, the age is not too young, and counting the time that the minor leagues will delay, in fact, by this time, the career looks like, and the hope is already much smaller.

So unless he is dissatisfied with the draft round, or his family conditions allow him to be willful, most talented players will not choose to go to college for a few more years.

Know that sports careers are limited.

This is also why Torres is curious. A kid who has been professionally trained to aim for the big leagues would rather give up his high school grades and draft, and set his goal directly in college?
Especially a kid who plays baseball!
ncaa is very hot, yes!But because baseball has gone through a batch of drafts in high school, it has received far less attention than football and basketball when it comes to college.

　The end of the month is very busy, maybe today's April is really difficult.Sorry~~

　　
　
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