Major League Baseball Angels Shohei Ohtani practiced batting for the first time at a training camp and delivered a sharp hit.
On the 20th, the Angels began training with fielders joining the camp in Tempe, Arizona.
Otani, who has already been in the battery camp since the 15th, uses a specially shaped ball with the outside cut off to check the trajectory and rotation, etc., and then practice defense in coordination with the pitcher. I participated in.
Then, in outdoor batting practice, he hit 10 hits over the fence with 22 swings, and hit oversized hits that reached the parking lot outside the stadium and the roof of the clubhouse.
After that, I had my first actual batting practice at the camp, and played against two minor league right-handed pitchers for one at-bat.
In the first at-bat, Ohtani hit a sharp hit toward the center that hits the net set up next to the mound, and in the second at-bat, he carried the first ball in front of the right and hit the hit in both at-bats.
On the 21st, Otani will pitch as a pitcher in an actual batting practice, and plans to throw against the batter for the first time in this camp.
Ohtani's agent, Nez Valero, also visited on the day and spoke with his general manager Minassian of the Angels for about an hour and a half.
When asked by reporters about a contract extension for Ohtani, who will be a free agent after this season, and the Angels, Valero said: "No comment on negotiations. He's with the Angels now and has the right to play all year. There is.”