Kazuhiro Kiyohara (53), who played for Seibu, Giant and Orix, spoke about the world of baseball on the 5th. As a representative director of the Green Seed Baseball Foundation, a baseball class for sixth graders was held at the west of Tokyo with Mr. Kazuyoshi Tachinami, an obstetrician from China and Japan. He spoke on a wide range of topics such as the Japan series, the most popular smashers, Takeshi Shinjo and Daisuke Seibu Matsuzaka, who are participating in the joint 12-team test, Tojiji, who died in November, and Yukio Kiuchi, who was the director of Joso Gakuin.

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Kiyohara, who has a total of 525 bases and 1,530 points, named three players as professional smashers of the same type.

“The growth was particularly notable from the Okamoto Giants. I personally support (Hiroshima) Seiya Suzuki. It seemed difficult to control my mindset while the team was slow. And Yanagida from Softbank. He really is up to date.”

During his active career, he played the “famous Heisei game” with fastball pitchers such as Lotte Irabe, Shigeru Kintetsu, and Fujikawa Hanshin. I also thought about it during the Reiwa era.

“Now 150 kg is the norm. Some pitchers put 160 kg. I wanted to compete.”

What if we had played against Oryx Yamamoto, Softbank Chiga, Giant Kanno and others?