My first and second at-bats, I pulled the ball with grounders to the right side. In that at-bat, I was looking to go with the pitch, for a pitch high in the zone I could hit to the outfield. |
My knee isn't that bad. It's actually improving. |
My knee isn't that bad. This has happened in the past. |
Perhaps my father will be pretty happy if I give it to him, |
The amount of a salary is very important, ... I think it's important for all professional athletes. We are evaluated by our own salaries. |
The feeling itself, it is the same. I don't really add the statistics that I had in Japan and the home runs here. |
The knee isn't really that bad. It's actually improving. It seems like the swelling is going down on a daily basis. This has happened in the past, too. I think being that it's just spring training right now, (it's) just for precautionary measures. |
The situation hasn't changed at all. I'm still thinking it over. But I would like to let manager Sadaharu Oh know what I'll do as soon as he comes back from Taiwan. |
The third one was high in the strike zone. I have my strategy against left-handers. |
The Yankees had their reasons for not wanting me to play. Major League Baseball had its reasons for wanting me to play. But at the end of the day, what was important to me is to win a championship ring with the Yankees. |
Usually when I get into that habit, soft toss corrects that. In terms of checking where you are and where you hit the ball, the tee was good for that. |
We call them typhoons there, |
We call them typhoons there. |
We're starting with numbers now - like how many outs there are. By the end of the season, I think he'll be pretty fluent. |
When I first started out professionally in Japan, I had a number in mind, maybe 500, 600 or 700, ... but not anymore. |