Okumura wasn't stupid. Once Sendou laid out the stakes, he immediately understood the brutal competition of high school baseball.
High school baseball wasn't as simple as he had imagined!!
"Even if you're a genius, the team needs to consider developing you. They might bring you into the First Team with that in mind, but you still need to have the immediate ability to convince everyone!!
Seidou's competition doesn't have any of that messy nonsense. Our team wouldn't allow it either!!
And no one will look down on you, because this team is the kind of place where someone who can join the First Team directly might suddenly pop up at any time!!
Like this guy. He went from being a trainee everyone had forgotten after several weeks to the second string in just one game!
And from the second string to the First Team, it only took one game!!" Sendou said, pointing at Sawamura as an example.
Then he pointed at Miyuki!
"What you should do isn't glare at this guy with those terrifying eyes. You should clearly see your own strengths and weaknesses, work hard to improve yourself, and then surpass him!
You know this guy really admires Senior Chris, who's a year above him, right?!
When he first greeted Senior Chris before joining the club,
he had this look like, 'I'll steal everything I can learn from you, then take your regular position too!'"
"How do you know something like that?" Miyuki asked, bewildered and speechless.
He had never told anyone what he had been thinking. Back then, Sendou had still been out in the countryside teasing Sawamura!
"Senior Chris told me. He said you weren't good at hiding your expressions at all!
Even if Senior Chris had been feeling dejected at the time, there was no way