Ch 21
7 episodes. Rising fastball (2).
3.
Rising fastball.
– Skill Rank: F
– Skill Effect: You can throw an enhanced fastball by consuming 3 points of HP.
Rising fastball.
Jin-yong Lee and Jin-ho Kim, who looked at the platinum-level skills, were making stupid expressions.
The surprise of this great skill and the doubts about what this skill meant, those two things were making their faces that way.
Soon, Jinyong Lee opened his mouth.
“Do you know what this means?”
– Well, I’ve never had a game system like this before…
Jinho Kim scratched his head.
The fact that the ghost scratched his head was very strange, but Jinyong Lee did not bother to point out that fact.
I remembered instead.
“But have you ever thrown a rising fastball?”
Kim Jin-ho, remember when he was playing in the major leagues, throwing a fastball that seemed to float.
– I tried tossing it. No, to be precise, it didn’t really pop up. It’s less subdued.
“I know. It was because of the high number of turns. Major League Baseball experts analyzed the average rotation speed of Kim Jin-ho’s four-seam fastball, and it was predicted that the average would be over 2400 RPM. In fact, there was talk of more than that.”
– yes? uh? rotation speed?
“Yes. High revs and great vertical movement. So everyone was helpless by Jin-ho Kim’s 100-mile fastball.”
– Uh, umm… Suddenly, something is going on strangely. Are you talking about baseball?
“ah.”
It was then that Jinyong Lee realized.
The baseball that Kim Jin-ho knew and the baseball of today’s era, the changes over the past 10 years, were a level of change.
“Just say what you want to say.”
– Somehow I feel like a fool?
“Isn’t it possible, it’s just that times have changed. I will tell you more about it later.”
– Anyway, a rising fastball is different from a ball with a normal speed of movement. What makes it different from the general case is that it is different from what others are imaged. It’s hard to get the timing right because it’s different, so of course it’s hard to get a proper hit.
“Yes.”
– In other words, the fastball reinforcement that this Rising Fastball skill speaks of is probably that kind of reinforcement. The speed will be faster, or the ball will not really float, but it will make the trajectory of the ball different from that of a normal ball.
“It would be.”
Up to this point, Jin-yong Lee was expected and understood.
– The key is the fastball.
On the contrary, from this part on, Jinyong Lee did not expect it.
“Yes?”
The key is a fastball, and at that expression, Jinyong Lee tilted his head.
– What’s the example? The skill you gained is nothing else and makes your fastball stronger?
“Yes, it is. You can see that.”
On the other hand, Kim Jin-ho shook his head at Lee Jin-yong’s appearance.
– You don’t know what that means?
This time, Jinyong Lee shook his head.
“Honestly, I don’t know what you’re talking about. Isn’t a fastball a fastball? This skill makes the fastball stronger.”
– Yeah, a four-seam fastball is a fastball, a two-seam fastball is a fastball, and a cut fastball is a fastball.
“ah!”
It was then that Jinyong Lee realized.
– A split finger fastball is also a fastball!
“Splitter!”
Why is this skill a Platinum level skill?
And how great a weapon he had in his hands.
4.
– First of all, I checked that the pitches you just learned on your own are not registered in the Baseball Manager.
When the baseball manager was created, Jin-yong Lee and Jin-ho Kim, of course, did their own research on the baseball manager.
Among the dogs, the first thing they did was about acquiring a changing ball pitch.
There is nothing difficult about throwing a change ball. It’s just a matter of using it in the game.
Here, Jinyong Lee and Jinho Kim conducted an experiment.
I threw a non-updated kind of change orb in Jinyong Lee’s status window.
Two seams, cutters, splitters, fork balls, and even knuckle balls!
However, no matter how much a change ball was thrown in such a way, the change ball was not updated in the status window.
I realized there.
The change ball that Jinyong Lee learned or developed with his own ability is just a change ball and is not registered in the Baseball Manager.
And change balls that are not registered in the Baseball Manager cannot receive skill and item effects.
“Damn, if I had known this was going to happen, I would have thrown all the change balls before I got a baseball manager! ah! Why didn’t I throw a two-seam… I’ll throw a splitter…”
In other words, even though he acquired the amazing skill of the rising fastball now, Jinyong Lee could not properly confirm the true value of that skill.
The only fastball pitch Jinyong Lee currently has was a four-seam fastball.
This was the reason why Jinyong Lee briefly complained about his situation of not being able to properly use the value of the treasure he had obtained.
– Had I known this would have happened, I would have driven a large truck instead of a Ferrari. Don’t be obsessed with nonsense.
It was, of course, a petty complaint.
– More important than that is to check the power properly. It’s a pitch anyway, because you’ll learn it later.
“Power?”
– What’s your top speed right now?
Jinyong Lee activated his status window instead of answering.
[Lee Jinyong]
– Max HP: 73
– Maximum Restraint: 124
– Owned pitches: four-seam fastball (E), changeup (B), slider (F), curve (B)
-Owned Skills: Before Planting (E), Daily Express (F), Rising Fastball (F)
[The curve pitch rank has risen to B rank due to the daily special effect.]
“The maximum speed is 124 kilometers. But as far as the maximum speed limit goes, you should just look at the fastball in the early 120s.”
– I’m actually in tears because it’s a restraint that doesn’t come out better than my splitter.
“Yeah, I’m glad it’s faster than the curve. It’s okay.”
– In a sense, it’s better that you’re not terribly slow, but rather lousy.
“Yes?”
Are you glad it’s ridiculously slow?
At Kim Jin-ho’s sudden words, Jin-yong Lee tilted his head.
– You know what? Did you know that in the 1940s, knuckleballs were a very common ball in the major leagues?
“A knuckleball?”
– Four of the starting pitchers on one major league team used knuckleball as their main force.
Jinyong Lee stuck out his tongue at those surprising words.
“The catcher must have been pissed. At that time, there would be no such thing as there were 5 or 6 rotations around that time, so we would have been getting knuckleballs every day, wouldn’t we?”
– But since then, Knuckleball has gone downhill. Do you know why?
“Is it too common?”
– answer.
Baseball has always evolved and has also changed.
– Everyone threw knuckleballs, so batters started researching knuckleballs, and knuckleballs were no longer a harness. All transitions have gone through that process. When the curve comes, every pitcher throws the curve, and every hitter studies the curve. So did the forkball, and so did the splitter. Rather, it was the slider that always maintained the pitch value in that situation. Do you know why?
“As I said before, most of the transition balls move up and down, but the slider moves left and right.”
– Oh, let’s wipe our tears for a second.
“tear? Why all of a sudden?”
– Because I’m so proud… Ah! How did I turn a beast into a man!
“Let’s get back to the point, not punting.”
– Yeah, back to the point.
In the midst of that change, the batter and the pitcher always fought each other by biting each other’s tails.
It was still the same today.
– In the 2016 MLB season, pitchers started throwing high fastballs.
“It was. Analysts said the era of the high fastball was coming.”
– It’s the same as I said before. lower, lower. All pitchers were educated to throw low pitches from an early age, and all pitchers made it a virtue to throw low pitches, so all hitters evolved to hit low pitches.
Until a few years ago, the pitcher everyone admired was a pitcher who could throw the ball fast in the low strike zone.
If a young high school pitcher threw a 100-mile ball low, all the scouts in the major leagues would rush in and applaud him for his pitching.
However, the low ball had a higher batting average today.
Rather, the era has come when a higher ball has a lower batting average.
It is evidence of change.
– And now is the age of the fastball. The era of throwing the ball faster.
Furthermore, today’s baseball was also the era of the fastball.
The era of trying to throw the ball faster somehow.
It was also the era of actually throwing the ball faster.
“So that means my slow ball can work.”
If we apply that fact to the explanation given by Jin-ho Kim, it means that Jin-yong Lee’s slow ball becomes a rare ball for hitters!
– What? hey! Does it make sense that slow balls work? A ball that is just slow is just a batting ball.
“Then what should I do?”
– It’s slow, but you have to throw a fucking ball. That is the direction you should pursue from now on. In addition, it is a process you must go through in order to survive in the professional world. To be honest, I thought you would come to this stage after a while, but I didn’t expect it to come so soon.
That was then.
ding!
The conversation between the two paused for a moment at the notification that a text message had arrived.
– I got a text message.
Jinyong Lee immediately checked his smartphone.
– What is it about?
Jin-yong Lee answered Kim Jin-ho’s question that followed.
“Now that you’ve entered the match against the Seoul Angels 2nd team, you said you should prepare to go to Icheon?”
5.
Seoul Angels.
Based in Seoul and using Jamsil Baseball Stadium as their home stadium, the team is supported by the Hyunsung Group, one of Korea’s leading conglomerate groups.
It was thanks to the unparalleled love of baseball of Chairman Koo Jeong-beom, the chairman of the Hyunsung Group.
However, as soon as they entered the 2000s after winning the championship in 1994, the treatment of the Seoul Angels, which had been falling repeatedly, began to gradually decrease.
It was around the time that the 2017 season was about to change for the Seoul Angels.
Starting with the recruitment of a national-class left-handed pitcher and a national representative-class giant outfielder for a total of 10 billion won each, which is evaluated as the biggest pitcher in the FA market, it is a whopping $ 5.5 million to recruit three foreign players with extraordinary careers in the major leagues. invested the cost
An investment that has no choice but to hear such voices as crazy, crazy, beyond an aggressive level.
“So what do you think about Park Jun-hyung?”
Gu Eun-seo and her were in the background of the investment.
The moment she, the granddaughter of the current chairman of the Hyunsung Group, took over as the Angels’ management team leader, the Seoul Angels’ financial power never dried up.
“Honestly, if I had played in the majors, I would have called the general manager right away.”
“Is that enough?”
“While I was injured in high school and college, my body was strengthened through rehabilitation. And during that time, I learned humility and a sense of urgency for baseball. He is a player who is full of talent, but feels thirsty on a stage that does not match his talent, and he hones himself to satisfy that thirst. I bet he’ll hit .30 and 20 home runs any season. It’s the best resource to replace the starting first baseman for our team, which is going downhill right now.”
And now, Ku Eun-seo’s interest was focused on Park Jun-hyung.
It wasn’t just that Park Jun-hyung had excellent lumber.
“What do you think of the PR team leader?”
“A player who has never been nominated in the pros wears the Angels jersey and contributes to the team’s victory and receives the Rookie of the Year award. If that’s the case, you can leave the rest to me. We will make it the best hit product.”
Gu Eun-seo, what she wanted was a victory.
It is not just a simple victory, but a victory that her grandfather, Chairman Koo Jeong-beom, will be moved by!
On the day of the Korean Series decisive battle, Chairman Koo Jeong-beom summoned all the bloodstains to his VVIP hospital room, and the victory deserves the appearance of being happy with the Angels’ victory!
For such a win, it was necessary for Gu Eun-seo.
“I have already prepared several cards. There are only nine pitching schedules that we have set aside. They are all Class A idols. The reporters have already been put on standby at the division level. Every time Park Joon-hyung hits a home run, his article will come up by a hundred.”
story.
Not just outstanding, but a story that everyone will notice and move!
That was the reason.
“like. Then I will watch this match for myself.”
“Yes?”
“Yes?”
“I will make a decision on the spot.”
The reason why she decided to watch a game between the 2nd team and an independent club.