Fans feel chilly toward Roki Sasaki (Chiba Lotte Marines), who has been sidelined repeatedly due to major and minor injuries. Notably, the mood seems to have been reflected when he had friction with his team over whether to advance to the Major League last winter. He failed to play in the All Star for the third consecutive year.토토사이트

The Japanese Baseball Organization (NPB) announced the results of fan voting for the players who will compete in the 2024 All-Star Game. A total of four players were not chosen by fans here, neither were the Chiba Lotte Marines. The name of Sasaki, who was the most likely candidate, could be found.

Sasaki surprised the world in the 2022 season. He struck out 13 consecutive batters, including 19 strikeouts against the Orix Buffaloes in the early part of the season, setting an unofficial world record and achieving the feat of "perfect game." He also displayed perfect pitching in eight perfect innings against the Nippon Ham Fighters in his next appearance, almost achieving the "first" perfect game in the world baseball for two consecutive games.

Sasaki proved his value by taking the mound in 20 games in the 2022 season with 9 wins, 4 losses and a 2.02 ERA, and also contributing a great boost to the Japanese national team's "win in all games" with a brilliant performance at the World Baseball Classic (WBC) the following year. And last year, he showed an overwhelming performance in 15 games, including the only one that prevented Yamamoto Yoshinobu (LA Dodgers) from taking the lead at the beginning of the season, and left an excellent performance with 7 wins, 4 losses and an ERA of 1.78.

It was last winter that Sasaki's image was greatly damaged. Sasaki, who had been hoping to advance to the Major League, had a friction with Chiba Lotte during the salary negotiations. For Chiba Lotte, he has never used Sasaki full-time, and players under the age of 25 could not accept Sasaki's unreasonable demands at a time when they did not receive a proper posting amount. In conclusion, Sasaki settled his conflict with the club before the start of the spring camp, but at the time, Sasaki was severely criticized for his actions.

In response, Sasaki brought up his goal of "full time" to seek to advance to the big leagues once again after the 2024 season is over. However, Sasaki is currently not found in the first-team entry. After the game against the Softbank Hawks on May 25, he had a break due to his condition recovery problem, but he disappeared again due to the same problem after pitching one run (non-earned) in six innings against the Hiroshima Toyo Carp on June 8. Of course, pitching is not impossible, but manager Yoshii Masato expressed his intention to call him the first team when he is fully fit.

Sasaki was selected as the first all-star in the Pacific League pitching category in 2022, when he achieved the perfect game. And last year, he also ranked first in the Pacific League pitching category, receiving fans' choice for the second consecutive year, but this year, fans completely turned a blind eye to Sasaki. Sasaki received only 347,416 votes and remained second in the Pacific League in a gap that more than doubled to first-place Sakya Yamasaki (721,018 votes). As a result, voting will not allow him to make the All-Star stage this year. Due to a number of recent events, fans' feelings seem to have been reflected intact.

In the meantime, former Chiba Lotte Marines head coach Tsutomu Ito also scolded Sasaki. According to multiple media outlets including Japan's Sponichi Annex, Ito said on his YouTube channel, "I don't think I'm throwing it all year round, I think I'm putting the Major League in my head, but I feel a little sad watching it."

In the end, frequent injuries led to poor assessment. "I was pitching well, but it suddenly ended up being canceled because I couldn't pitch," former coach Ito said. "Where on earth are you looking at? First of all, it must be for the Japanese baseball team. I hope they play the role of pillar to win the championship." "Even though we have time to adjust, there is a question mark of 'Huh?" "Baseball is both an individual and a group sport. Baseball is about fighting together. I hope they take actions including attitude so that they don't think it's an individualism."