Your Sudden Emergence

"Then that's it for today!" A familiar voice echoed from the baseball field!

"Thank you for your hard work!"

"It's over!"

As the young players left, either with their parents or alone, Sendou's figure became conspicuous.

"Do you need something? If not, I have someone to meet soon. If you want a tour, can you come another day?" Coach Nakanishi said.

"O, Coach, has my appearance changed that much?"

"Akila? Are you Sendou Akira?"

"What's with that expression? Coach!"

"Changed? You're a completely different person! I wouldn't have recognized you if I hadn't heard your voice! How tall are you? 175? No way, it's more than that, right? Unbelievable that you're only 12. And your hairstyle, haha, it's exactly like Sendou from the manga!"

"Sorry, even though we keep in touch often, I didn't expect it to be three years since we last met."

"Don't apologize! Akila, you haven't done anything to apologize for. You still haven't answered, how tall are you?"

"178 centimeters, I've grown a lot in the past few years."

"Are you still doing those exercises?"

"Yes! Every day! My body is still as flexible as a child's thanks to that routine."

"That's good. That routine will prevent your body from becoming fixed as you grow older. If you want to pursue any sport, you won't have your future ruined by being told your body is too rigid."

"I know, Coach!"

"Are you eating on time?"

"Two meals!"

"I knew it, you wouldn't eat properly during your vacation!"

"Yeah!"

The conversation was simple, ordinary, and warm, but it revealed Coach Nakanishi's heartfelt joy. To Coach Nakanishi, who only had a daughter, Sendou was like a disciple and a son.

"Alright, come in! There's no one inside now!"

"Yeah!"

"How's your team doing?"

"It's fun! And terrible, they are!" Sendou showed a slight smile!

"I see, that's great!"

"I guess! Well!" Sendou understood what Coach Nakanishi was implying, and replied.

"What do you think a student baseball team needs? What do you think a coach can bring to them?"

"Professional training? Or winning games?" Sendou tentatively said, but received only headshakes.

"Akila, the most important thing in student baseball is to let the players enjoy the game to the fullest, enjoying the tactics, base running, batting, fielding, and the joy brought by the entire game process. Winning or losing, that's baseball!"

"Is that the same for the Wildcats?"

"The Wildcats too! I know what you want to say, how can so many complex tactics be considered enjoyable?" Coach Nakanishi smiled slightly and patiently explained.

"How do you know the players aren't enjoying the game? You should know that I let the players think for themselves most of the time.

They think for themselves how to respond, the players trust each other, cooperate with each other, every hit, every defense, every base running, every cooperation.

The players will be happy with every success, every reward for their own judgment based on the situation, which will make the players more like to think and enjoy the game. Facing opponents stronger than themselves, facing crises, or opponents that cannot be defeated head-on, they enjoy the fun of using their brains and teamwork, and enjoy the joy of victory. That's the Wildcats!

The coach's role is to cultivate players, lead them to the path that suits them, and help them in times of crisis."

"I don't expect you to understand, you are special! Your path can only be explored by you."

"Thank you, o sang!"

"Okay, if you have anything you want to ask, hurry up and say it! Tell me about the details of your team first!"

"I see, this team is really happy! And your idea is also very good, a small baseball tactic that focuses on base cooperation? It is indeed very suitable for a team like yours. So what kind of training have you arranged for them?"

"Their foundation is very poor, so I am doing intensive training..." Then Sendou Akira told Coach Nakanishi about the training in the past few months!

"Your idea is right, but you are too perfectionistic. It is a good thing that the players like to practice, but boring and monotonous practice is difficult to generate motivation.

You should let them do joint practice as soon as possible, you can try to play practice matches, winning or losing doesn't matter, baseball, only the game is interesting.

Also, you said that you want every player to learn to judge balls and strikes, and never swing at bad balls. You should start this as soon as possible, I can help.

It just so happens that the sixth graders are retiring, and I am going to start a new team here. There are people in the batter's box during pitching practice, and even in a real combat environment, the training effect is better. In a couple of days, you can bring them here to act as temporary batters and runners. Seeing the balls thrown by people in reality will help them judge balls and strikes, and the training effect will be very good.

You can also arrange for our pitchers to have a formal showdown with them, what do you think?"

"Won't it bother you?"

"I also said that our new team is all fourth and fifth grade players, and there are not many substitutes. With you here, they can train better!"

"Yes!"

"Also, the practice menu I gave you at the beginning can also be used for their training. Base running also requires explosive power. Since you want to play this kind of tactic, explosive power training is essential."

"I forgot all about it!"

"These are just some suggestions that I came up with temporarily, don't worry, there is still a lot of time!"

"I understand!"

"O, sang!"

"Hmm?"

"I heard that those people who were on the same team as me had a hard time playing in those years!"

"Where did you hear that? Sasaki that guy!"

"You still keep in touch with him?"

"Occasionally! Not much in recent years, there's been a lot going on, and he's been training hard, that guy!"

"I see! Indeed, there were quite a few gifted guys in the Kanto area those years. Although they can't compare to you, they were still some formidable fellows. Our team's lineup was just so-so, and besides Sasaki-kun and Ichiro, who were very talented and had potential, the others couldn't be said to be very capable. It was a tough win! We were almost knocked out several times."

"Soga, but you still won, that's really amazing! O-san, you!"

"Your luck is really bad, a coach as amazing as you can't get geniuses to flock to you."

"No, on the contrary, I think my luck was really good those years."

"Didn't you say there weren't any talented guys?"

(So don't say in the future that Sendou won't run into guys from West Tokyo's prestigious schools who were originally from the Wildcats, that is, who were Sendou's teammates, or why no one recognizes Sendou, even though he was the Kanto Champions of Little League, but none of Sendou's teammates entered West Tokyo's prestigious schools, because these things are too poisonous, haha.)

"Because you appeared out of nowhere in the Wildcats and I discovered you! Although many geniuses emerged those years, you and they were not on the same level at all."

"But I only stayed in the Wildcats for a month!"

"That's enough!"

"Whatever you like! I'm going back!"

"If you think you've trained enough, contact me and bring them over!"

"Ah!" Sendou turned around, ready to leave, answering without looking back!

"Also, I can introduce you to practice match opponents! Although I'm just a Little League coach, I have a lot of connections in middle schools too!"

"You're so long-winded!"

"Hahaha!"

Speaking of yesterday's state, sigh, there was a particularly unwilling thing in the past, every time I think about it, it's heartbreaking. I can't say whether it's anger at myself at the time or unwillingness, in short, the blow I received back then was very big. So I'm very sorry. Finally, as usual, please collect and vote for recommendation.