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Chapter Six: Versailles, Ray!

"How many variations of balls do you know?"

Todoroki Raizo has wanted to ask this question a long time ago.

Li Lei will only reveal his trump card when he needs it.

Even before the game, he would practice with the team's catcher as if sharpening his skills before the game.

Fortunately, Li Lei's pitching is accurate, and his ball speed is not particularly fast.

Otherwise, just for catchers to get used to his pitches, they would need a lot of time.

During the game, accidents may occur.

Even though things went smoothly in the past with this method, Supervisor Todoroki Raizo still felt that there were too many uncontrollable factors.

If they really want to overthrow the wealthy teams.

It definitely won't work this way.

So he eagerly wanted to know how many other trump cards Li Lei had hidden?

Only after knowing this, could he make a choice between Sanada and Li Lei.

Who should be the real ace of the team?

In the past, there was no need to worry about this issue.

Although Li Lei's identity is prominent, it is difficult to hide it.

But Director Todoro Raizo finally decided to hide Sanada and let Li Lei stand on the pitcher's mound, which already explained his choice.

He wanted Junpei Sanada to be the real ace of the team and the last trump card of their team.

Sanada's pitching is quite outstanding, even from Todoroki Raizo's perspective, he can't find any problems.

The only flaw is Sanada's physical strength.

But as Sanada's performance off the mound became more and more outstanding, it came to the rest of the Yakushi Junior High School baseball team. Even Supervisor Todoroki Meiwei was shaken.

Sanada's performance off the court can be said to be very, very eye-catching.

For such a pitcher to be an ace is simply a waste of resources.

Now the players on the team are trusting Sanada more and more, and we have even regarded Sanada as the team's frontline support.

In that case, of course Todoroki Watanabe also wanted to know how Sanada himself viewed that issue?

And am I really not qualified to be the one relied upon by the Yakushi Junior High School baseball team?

Faced with the questions raised by Director Todoroki Watanabe, Sanada did not give an answer without hesitation.

I took a serious look at my supervisor and finally told the truth.

"There are probably more than a dozen types. Have you made any specific statistics?"

Is that human language?

Todoroki Watanabe stared at Sanada with confidence. I even believed that there was something wrong with my own ears.

"How is it possible that there aren't more than a dozen?"

"There are many change-up balls, such as screwballs, sliders, curveballs, sinkers, forks, changeups, and even butterflies and pinballs..."

Sanada Man said carefully.

"When you see those change balls at the bottom of the book, you won't have the urge to try them. By now, except for whether you have mastered the butterfly ball, you can throw all the other balls. Of course you can throw it, and you can throw it.

It means that kind of ball can be used in actual combat."

Sanada looked very distressed.

Obviously, apart from the changes I mentioned, none of them, in Mei Wei's opinion, has yet to be tempered and mature.

Is that a human being?

Am I speaking in human language?

Todoroki Meiwei has no impulse. I want to open Sanada's head and see what is inside that guy's head.

"You deny that you have little talent, just because you know what your talent is?"

When Sanada could use the change ball as he pleased, Sanada vaguely knew that I was too similar to other players.

However, I looked through baseball information.

Sanada has never seen a player similar to me in the world.

There are no pitchers who have mastered a few variations of the ball, but these pitchers have mastered it one by one through hard study and practice.

Mei Wei has never seen anyone who can learn all the changes of the ball as easily as he can.

Others want to learn a change ball, especially one that can be used in games.

It may take about half a year or even a year.

As for the low-level ones, they are similar to butterfly balls.

It may take players longer to master it.

Even if you are extremely talented, it will take you two to eight months to master a changing ball.

How long did Sanada use it?

Some familiar ones, such as speed balls and fork balls.

It only took me a few days to master the feeling and be able to use it in competitions.

Some relatively easy sliders and curveballs.

It only took me about half a month to master it.

And in the process of mastering those changing balls, Sanada did not devote himself wholeheartedly.

I mastered it in my spare time after practicing abnormally.

"That talent, Ma Rizhihu! Compared with you back then, there is still no difference."

Todoroki Watanabe smiled awkwardly.

Sanada is too arrogant, that's good.

As the team's supervisor, I have no responsibility or obligation to help the disciples adjust their mentality.

"You also think that you may not have the talent to become a professional player at all."

What Mei Wei said was sincere.

Even though I can master various variations of pitches day by day, my strengths in pitching are also outstanding.

This means that the ball speed is slow enough and the power is weak enough.

Against an opponent as high as the Nariko Junior High School Baseball Team, Sanada can use his specific variation of the ball to beat us around.

But it’s okay to meet really top players.

These guys are like low walls blocking Sanada's face.

Even if Sanada tried his best, we were still able to accurately find Sanada's pitch and hit the ball.

Sanada once attended a baseball summer camp and was fortunate enough to meet a major league hitter.

This hitter taught Sanada a solid lesson.

The reason why Sanada gave up baseball in the first place was because of conflicts with the supervisor.

To a small extent, it is also because I feel that even if I continue to go up, it will be difficult to truly stand at the top of the pyramid outside of that line.

"Haha! Since he knows so little about changing the ball, why is he practicing with Li Lei?"

That was Todoroki Watanabe's most curious question.

I originally thought that as the team's supervisor, Sanada was responsible for hiding many trump cards, and they might have escaped my eyes.

But in the past, Sanada was always able to come up with an endless variety of changing balls.

"That's OK! Memorize more than a dozen different signals for changing the ball in one go, and you have to coordinate them off the field. The catcher's mind will be confused."

In that regard, even Sanada's domestic partners can do it.

It goes without saying that Li Lei is only a little bit worse than Sanada's domestic partner.

If Sanada really practices more than a dozen variations of the ball with me, Li Lei will 100% miss the ball off the court.

"I see. That's why after every game, he will weaken training with Li Lei and use the change ball. Is that right?"

"Wrong!"
Chapter completed!
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