Shintaro Fujinami speaks with the Baltimore media

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Күн бұрын

Shintaro Fujinami met with the media ahead of today's game in Florida.
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@Jbobloochjr3 Жыл бұрын

Good luck Shintaro

@hdvids24 Жыл бұрын

despite the first pitch homer, i feel like today was a success for him, a 94 splitter is fucking insane

@cryptointuition5052 Жыл бұрын

Fujinami was a premier pitcher in his first four years of his career. He was a lot thinner back then and in shape. He changed his delivery for some reason and that's when his struggles began. He rebounded last year. He moved to the MLB and part of it was nerves as well. He has recently been slowly assimilating.

@TheTitofan1 Жыл бұрын

Didn’t he change his delivery because he was hitting the heck out of batters ?

@cryptointuition5052 Жыл бұрын

@TheTitofan1 he changed his style, and then he started hitting batters. But he never really got out of it. He started to focus mainly on two pitches. While he improved and made the Orioles decide to trade for him, he became a more predictable pitcher. 102 mph is hard to hit, but it becomes easier to hit when you throw too much of it. He got into trouble when he mixes slow pitches and follows it with faster pitches like his 4 seam fastball. He has a great splitter. But, he gets erratic after throwing it sometimes. Sometimes not. He really needs to bring back his cutter. Mix cutter and splitters more often. He throws a 4 seamer 56% of the time, which is too much. An easier pitch to implement would be a change up, which is a slower fast ball. He likes to throw it 100 plus all the time. Implementing a change up could change his career. Change ups are rarely used in Japan, but having a change up in his arsenal would be a game changer. He throws 102 mph, along with a changeup and his already awesome splitter, he could be key in the Orioles quest for a championship.

@TheTitofan1 Жыл бұрын

@@cryptointuition5052 Fuji finally with a nice clean inning

@itsjohnnymillion Жыл бұрын

I like his vibe.

@jeffmolnar4781 Жыл бұрын

Glad to have you, Fuji. Do your best and enjoy our team!!

@barreltitor9631 Жыл бұрын

we want him to be the baltimore's mt.fuji

@cejannuzi Жыл бұрын

Baltimore might be a good place for him to master MLB and perfect his pitching again.

@TheTitofan1 Жыл бұрын

I hope so. I really hope he can become a starter again

@CasiodorusRex Жыл бұрын

3:48 the female reporter failed geography. Oakland to Japan is 1600 miles shorter than Baltimore to Japan.

@dominique2o06 Жыл бұрын

Sugoi! Welcome to Batimore Fuji-san

@mcdiamond2463 Жыл бұрын

KEEP HIM

@TheTitofan1 Жыл бұрын

Really want to see him succeed. Need to ease him in though. Putting him in the high leverage situation against the rays probably wasn’t the best for his 2nd game. Didnt help that the fielder totally muffed the ball to end the inning

@freddielee1965 Жыл бұрын

I hope a change of scenery help him, he’s not a rookie at the age of 29, hope he can get that era down and eat up some innings!

@jimmybonez8928 Жыл бұрын

Is that a new interpreter for Fujinami-san??

@charlesflinnill978 Жыл бұрын

They'll have to call him "Fugi", the character from the 60's classic comedy McHales Navy.

@johncole273 Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the Orioles

@popozz Жыл бұрын

Fuji is the same age as Otani and they have been rivals since high school. Fuji was the better pitcher in high school and for a while in the NPB, but then he developed control problems and became unstable. In the NPB, he was so prone to dead pitches (especially against right-handed hitters) that opposing teams created a legend that they would not use their leading right-handed hitters on days when Fuji pitched. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bpZpjLxirLa8e4E.html MLB balls are more slippery than NPB balls, I am afraid that one day someone will get hurt.

@cs-kk5gg Жыл бұрын

Mt.Fuji erupted

@Eddie-uf6bs 11 ай бұрын

The Orioles scored with this guy, go O’s

@greenlit802 Жыл бұрын

Team was sleeping tonight.

@JK-fc8gl Жыл бұрын

Is he gonna be a starter or stay at bull pen

@doughboy3376 Жыл бұрын

Pen

@JK-fc8gl Жыл бұрын

Dang

@JaCapella Жыл бұрын

Depends what the team needs. I’m sure if Hyde made the call he’d step up and deliver the start

@JK-fc8gl Жыл бұрын

Definitely we are a very smart team

@stevenicholson7488 Жыл бұрын

How he gonna talk with the ball club? He doesn't speak any English...

@rhag14 Жыл бұрын

He can speak some conversational english. Foreign players are just more comfortable talking in the media with interpreters

@robertmason7553 Жыл бұрын

@@rhag14 Why do you have to explain. No sane person would point that out. Just a liberals who gas is five dollars and all I can remember is when gas was 1.89. FJB. I guess if he was from Ukraine hed be a hero.

@liamwheeler5956 Жыл бұрын

@@robertmason7553wtf are you on about lmao

@anemonekaori6604 Жыл бұрын

At the Athletics induction press conference, he gave a one-minute speech in English with beautiful pronunciation. I suspect that he speaks better English than the interpreter sitting next to him.

@johnrobertson421 Жыл бұрын

He spoke English in a few interviews with the As. He’s actually a very funny guy seems like he’ll fit in probably just nervous for the interview and prefers interpreter.