Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza tells us the truth about the shocking success of Japanese players, speaking from his experience of over 30 years in this world. 🎤 Commentary: Mike Piazza, MLB Hall of Fame catcher, total of 427 home runs (highest ever for a catcher) – Exclusive catcher of Hideo Nomo from 1995 – 2023 WBC Italy national team manager ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ Shohei Otani – The man who single-handedly upset the common sense of baseball “His ERA of 0.60 is already something of a joke.He ranks No. 1 in the entire league.Any active pitcher can tell you how insane this is.” Piazza points out that Otani’s true greatness is not his numbers, but his “preparedness.” “Ace-class pitchers are pushed to their limits just by preparing themselves for their pitching day. Ohtani, on the other hand, stands at bat in games other than his pitching day, hits home runs, and even runs the bases. This is not about talent. It’s about determination.” ▼ “The true nature of Japanese baseball” as seen at the 2023 WBC The first time Piazza faced Otani was in the quarterfinals, when he was the manager of the Italian national team. “I still vividly remember the scene when I looked around at Japan’s bench. Everyone’s eyes were sharp. Each person perfectly understood their role.” The team’s organizational skills and depth of preparation. Baseball is something fundamentally different from American or Central and South American baseball, and we will unravel its true nature from a catcher’s perspective. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ Munetaka Murakami – The man who surpassed Judge “A player in his first year in the majors is the sole leader in home runs in all of the majors. Moreover, the person he is competing against is Aaron Judge.” The fact that the rookie has surpassed the current strongest slugger with a league record of 62 home runs. A data analysis site predicts a pace of 67 per year. Piazza explains Murakami’s “unusual ball-picking eye” from a catcher’s perspective. “He doesn’t get on the ball. If he throws it into the zone, he gets a long hit as if he was waiting for it. As a catcher, he’s the type of batter I hate the most.” He also mentioned the perfection of Murakami’s swing, which overlaps with his own inside-out batting style. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ Kazuma Okamoto – A simple but unmissable fact: The Blue Jays have Guerrero Jr., one of the best active sluggers. Still, Okamoto ranks first on the team in home runs. “This is not a matter of ‘adapting.’ It’s that he’s already functioning as the core of the team.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ Hideo Nomo – The man who paved the way Piazza is a catcher who has been receiving pitches from Hideo Nomo since 1995. They have a special relationship that included a no-hitter at Coors Field. “Nomo was really quiet. When I gave him the signal, he just nodded and threw the ball as requested. He’s so prepared that he doesn’t need to talk,” Piazza asserts. “Nomo is one of the people who changed the history of Major League Baseball.As someone who actually received pitches from him, I can confirm this.” ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▼ “The same smell” that Piazza feels in Japanese players Piazza started his career as the lowest pick in the 62nd round of the draft. “The reason I was able to survive is because I went to the stadium earlier than anyone else and watched videos longer than anyone else.When I look at Japanese players, I feel the same smell as me.The smell of people who win through preparation, not talent.” Otani, Murakami, and Okamoto stand on the path Nomo has carved out. They will definitely rewrite the history of Major League Baseball in the future, says the Hall of Fame catcher with conviction. ■About the production policy for this video (Important) The videos on this channel are original content that focuses on audio commentary, structure, and discussion. The videos, images, and audio materials used are structured with consideration to YouTube’s guidelines and the scope of quotation, and are based on the premise of short-term use, processing, editing, and contextual necessity. In addition, the narration uses a machine voice generated based on your own voice, and there is no intention to imitate or impersonate any specific real person. This video is an entertainment piece based on baseball, but includes production, composition, and consideration. Please understand that some of the content includes interpretations and production expressions. ■ Copyright/Right Notation The copyrights of videos, images, and sound sources belong to the respective rights holders. If a problem is confirmed, we will promptly take measures such as making it private or deleting it. *Unauthorized reproduction, copying, or reuse of this channel’s content (including explanatory text, structure, and narration) is prohibited. ■ Materials/Credit 🎧 Additional Track Elektronomia – Energy Watch: https://youtu.be/eW3gMGqcZQc Free Download / Stream: http://ncs.io/Energy Video @Dodgers Official X https://www.youtube.com/@MLB
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