Geniuses of the next generation (end of this volume)

Like a tornado, Akagi Middle School, which swept the entire Nagano Prefecture regional competition, went silent after a few days of fermentation.

After all, they did not completely rewrite the situation in Nagano Prefecture. The representatives of Nagano Prefecture in the Kanto Conference were still two of the three kings, Tenryuji Middle School and Okita Middle School!

Okita Middle School, in the first round of the Kanto Tournament, met the King's Yokocho Academy in Kanagawa, was abused into scum, and stopped at the top sixteen of the Kanto Tournament. Well, there are only sixteen teams participating in the Kanto Conference, and they are not too out of the ordinary. There are also seven brothers and sisters who are in trouble.

In the semifinals, Tenryuji Middle School, who was almost betrayed by Sawamura, was ashamed and brave. With Nanami Haruna as the core, they used their mobility to create opportunities, narrowly beat their opponents by a small score several times, and finally reached the finals of the Kanto Conference.

In the final, Tenryuji played against the Kanagawa King Yokocho Academy, but unfortunately lost, Nanami Haruna scored three points by Yokocho's batter!

Next, Tenryuji Middle School also performed well in the whole country. It made great progress all the way to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, it lost to Kitakomaki Middle School in Hokkaido, and then lost in the third- and fourth-place competition.

It was only one step away, and it did not squeeze into the top three in the country, ranking fourth.

Akagi Middle School's own little friend accepted the result very calmly. They are not too frustrated by my own failures. Especially after taking fourth place in the country Tenryuji, creating the best record in Nagano Prefecture in the past 20 years or so. Akagi's little friend suddenly felt more relaxed.

Anyway, they also lost to fourth place in the country. Their strength should still be quite strong.

Then there is the national competition. This national competition is not so intense. What is more interesting is that there are the first left and right casters in Kanto. To the left, Narumiya Mei, and to the right, Nanami Haruna…

There are many others like them, who are only in the first and second grades but have become the core players of their respective teams.

Great next era!

These next-generation players will inevitably lead a new era of middle school baseball in the coming year.

Among the media, "Baseball Boys", which has the strongest strength and the most resources, has also screened 100 players and made a cartoon atlas. There is no specific ranking above, only roughly divided into three categories.

In the first column are the twelve people who have entered the country and have performed well in the country. These people, the six in the Softball League and the six in the Hardball League are collectively known as the Twelve Heavenly Kings.

There are thirty-six people in the second column. Among these people, there are not only those in the softball league but also many powerful players in the hardball league. Of course, the softball league has a large base of players, and relatively speaking, it accounts for a larger proportion.

These two columns have actual records that can be checked. The batting rate, the hit rate, and the defense success rate are all terrifyingly high. On top of that, the team they're on, and where they're personally on the team, are also available.

In other words, they are the proud sons of heaven standing at the pinnacle of their lives.

Next is the third column. There are fifty-two players in total who have no national experience but are considered very potential by Baseball Boys. Interestingly, among the fifty-odd people, the hardball league players, that is, the players directly affiliated with the junior baseball team, accounted for a much more important proportion, while the softball league players with a large number of players were few and far between.

The next-generation talent list of "Baseball Boys" was released, and Sawamura was impressively on the list.

Sawamura himself didn't care much about this. In his previous life, he had experienced this kind of thing too many times. During his student days, although he had never been on various lists. But in his career, he is often on the list.

Whether in this country or in the major leagues.

To put it bluntly, this is just a means for the media and sponsors to increase the popularity of the topic. In addition to the recognized competition records and various titles, such as this kind of folk self-made things, professional baseball scouts will not collect them in their own database at all.

But the little friends are different, they are still very keen on Sawamura's name on the list.

Nagano Prefecture, Akagi Middle School, Sawamura Eijun.

Position: Pitcher, fourth batter.

The core of the team single-handedly led Akagi Middle School to the top four in Nagano Prefecture and defeated Nagano Metropolitan Middle School. In the direct dialogue with the fourth place in the country, Tenryuji Middle School, there was no loss.

Pitcher (passing) strength evaluation: four stars

Strike Strength Rating: Three and a half stars

Defense strength evaluation: four and a half stars

Speed ​​strength evaluation: three stars

Tactical execution strength evaluation: five stars

Estimated potential: Four and a half stars.

Comprehensive evaluation: 24 and a half stars!

Although Sawamura was ranked in the third echelon, his evaluation was very high. According to the total number of stars, Sawamura's ranking is only a little worse than that of the twelve heavenly kings with more than twenty-five stars.

Thanks to the strong publicity of "Baseball Boys", Sawamura's name had already spread in small circles before he entered the national competition. Everyone knows that Nagano has a good pitcher named Sawamura.

Although Sawamura is not very interested in his own ranking and evaluation. But I really like this list.

On this list, he saw a lot of acquaintances. Of course, these are all acquaintances from his previous life, and now Sawamura knows them, but they don't know Sawamura.

Let's talk about the Twelve Heavenly Kings first, Sawamura knows almost half of them here. Some of these people are his opponents in high school, and some are friends from the professional game. In addition to Nanami Haruna and Narumiya Mei, Sawamura knew ten more or less.

It's not surprising that there are two that Sawamura has never heard of.

It's been hours, and big players are not necessarily good players. In baseball, there are too many.

Injuries, mental imbalances, all kinds of temptations, and I don't like to work in baseball in the future, or my body doesn't develop after high school...

For the birth of a real baseball professional player, in addition to talent and self-effort, luck is sometimes a very important prerequisite.

Among the other 80 people, Sawamura had more acquaintances.

Miyuki, Mima, Kawakami-senpai, Shirakawa, Carlos, Takatsu, Mukai...

"Huh!"

Taking a deep breath, Sawamura smiled and shook his head. He was not surprised at all that Miyuki was not ranked among the Twelve Heavenly Kings. If the memory is correct, the youth club where Miyuki was in middle school did not seem to be particularly strong. Although often won, but the competition has never entered the final.

There was a time when he was drinking with Narumiya Mei, and hearing Narumiya murmur, Miyuki himself would not say such embarrassing things.

Summer nights always come very late.

Sawamura was sitting quietly at home preparing to eat. At this time, the TV was turned on, and an advertisement appeared.

"The Bunshin Cup, the war has rekindled. This time, who can represent Nagano County to compete in the whole country? Tenryuji Middle School, which is in the top four in the country, Nagano Metropolitan Middle School, which is making a comeback, or the big one who unfortunately lost in the first round of the Kanto Competition. Okita Middle School…"

Every team that comes out is a photo. The photos are arranged in an arrow shape, with the core of the team leading, followed by the main players of the team on both sides. Above the players is their coach.

The last photo, freeze frame.

"Is it the three kings defending the title, or is there a dark horse stirring up the situation."

Here, the name of the dark horse school is not mentioned, but this photo is very interesting.

Below is the flame, and above the flame, there is a line of small golden characters, Nagano Akagi Middle School.

Above the small print is Sawamura, and on both sides of Sawamura are Ren and Wakana. Then there are the friends from Akagi Middle School, Oda, Yamaguchi, Nakagawa Nobu, Masayoshi Renya, and the Yamazaki brothers.

At the top of the team, Sano's chubby hands spread out, looking very imposing.

Although Akagi's name was not mentioned at the end, this photo stayed the longest. The three kings stayed for only three or four seconds, but Akagi's photo stayed for a full ten seconds.

Then comes the start time of the Bunshin Cup and an introduction to the arrangement of the stadium.

After the ad ends.

Parents and grandfather stared at Sawamura with three pairs of big eyes.

This movement is very wrong. They knew that Sawamura was playing baseball. But in their opinion, this is nothing more than a child playing a house, without a professional baseball field, without a professional coach, and a bunch of children fooling around together, what else can they do?

But now it looks like that's not the case.

Why are you still on TV? And looking at that posture, Akagi Middle School seems to be one of the very promising competitors in Nagano Prefecture.

"Ei-chan, can you give my mother an explanation?"

Mom is always gentle, and always makes Sawamura's favorite meatballs. But now she has a skinny smile on her face as if she was going to devour Sawamura alive.

Sawamura put the rice ball in his hand into his stomach very plainly. He knew why his mother was so angry. For those who have just graduated from primary school, their lives are almost always accompanied by their mothers.

It was only after middle school that Sawamura began to have his own circle. Before the mother and son got along day and night, talking about everything, but now Sawamura has such great achievements without telling her. As a mother, the pain is understandable.

"It's nothing, it's just that we reached the semi-finals of Nagano Prefecture in the previous competition."

Saying that Sawamura clenched his fist unwillingly. One step, one step away, and they won. Although the little friends didn't care about losing to fourth place in the country, Sawamura was different.

Even if he was well trained, in Sawamura's view, the guys at Tenryuji are just a bunch of little kids. Sawamura was still very unwilling to lose to them.

But baseball is like that, it's not basketball. If it is basketball, as long as a person is particularly powerful, it is not impossible to crush the audience. Unlike baseball, unless it is Superman, no team can beat all opponents by one person.

"Oh, so it is."

The hot grandpa behaved very calmly, and the calmness surprised Sawamura.

"You bastard, why didn't you inform us about such a big thing? Do you have the consciousness of being a grandson?"

In the blink of an eye, Grandpa's volcano erupted, revealing his true nature.

In this regard, Sawamura is not to be outdone: "Hey, I haven't complained yet. The semi-final was broadcast by local TV stations, didn't you watch it? Even if you didn't watch it, didn't the neighbors tell you? Are you really related? Do you think your grandson is playing baseball?"

Uh…

When Sawamura complained, his grandfather and parents stopped talking.

During this time, it happened to be the harvest season. They were also very busy, okay? Besides, a few of the neighbors watch baseball, right?

"Even so, you should tell us. After all, we are your family!"

The father said with a mature look, and with his non-mainstream hip-hop dress, it still looks like that.

Sawamura: "I think so too, but what can I say, come and cheer for me that I made it to the top four in the county. It feels like a kid showing off his report card and asking for a lollipop."

"Don't be too stinky!"

Grandpa felt the same way, but he didn't like Sawamura, who was neither big nor small.

Sawamura: It's not all taught by you.

The development of a family atmosphere is not something that one person can decide. It is determined by the family's character. The atmosphere that seems to be in full swing may be neither big nor small in the eyes of others but in the eyes of Sawamura himself.

This is their relatives, the best bond, the most comfortable state of coexistence.

As for the team's results, Sawamura didn't want to hide it from his family at first. However, he wanted to wait until he entered the Kanto Conference.

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