Is Sawamura a prodigy?

A Fandom user·5/21/2020 in General Discussion

So this is just an oppion of someone with no prior experience in baseball (I havent even watched a single live game ) but dont you think sawamura is a much as a monster as furuya ? I mean I just looked this up online but I read that it takes 3 to 6 months to learn a change up and sawamura does it in one night . Not to mention the guy just pitches different balls by changing his grip on top of which he has an unusually felxible boy amounting to his unique form and exceptional mental stabilty.

Of course this is just my oppion and I wanted to hear what others thought of this .

(Edited by A Fandom user)

DecomposingAtom·5/26/2020

This is something that actually escapes a lot of fan's radar I feel like but yes Sawamura is a ridiculous prodigy. He isn't gifted in terms of strength/velocity like Furuya but he's incredibly gifted in other fields, many of which other don't have. Sawamura practicallyl haven't been properly trained until he enrolled into Seidou and he's only started playing and practicing baseball "seriously" for a better part of one year, even Furuya was trained somewhat more extensively by his grandpa or his middle school before he stopped playing. Sawamura's ability to create a Cutter by pure accident is a skill that's extremely rare even amongst pitchers. On top of that, Sawamura's flexibility helps him injects a huge amount of spins on his pitch which makes it rises at the plate and looks sharper than a similar pitch of the same velocity, this allows Sawamura to get strikeouts despite his lower velocity and has became sort of a deceptive power pitcher as he could rake up as much as 8 strikeouts through 5 innings. His unique form is actually something that many pitchers are taught but are unable to do, it requires a lot of flexibility for a pitcher to be able to hide his pitching arm behind the head like that and due to that hidden arm action, Sawamura pitching delivery is always on time and has a good rhythm, allowing him to repeat his pitching mechanics consistently which as a result producing consistently good pitches and consistently good performances. He acquired all of these in a span of 1 year, you cannot be a scrub and acheive this even with extra amount of efforts, it's when both talent and efforts are combined that a player would bloom.

Sawamura is quite a complete package compare to Furuya who has the only thing Sawamura lacks, the power aspect; however, there are many facets to pitching; namely control, pitch movement, change of speed and velocity and Sawamura has all of these beside velocity. It's unfortunate that many uses Furuya as a benchmark to compare Sawamura with and they seems to think Sawamura is not as good as Furuya because he lacks that one aspect of pitching but it cannot be further from the truth.

(Edited by DecomposingAtom)

Soulace14·11/4/2020

Sawamura isn't a prodigy, He wasn't taught Baseball when he was young which is why he doesn't know how to grip the ball properly. This enables him to pitch moving fastball naturally. That is why changeup is easy for him because he used to grip the ball in his palm which you call palmball in his early years, and palmball is another type of Changeup which makes it easier for him. His form wasn't taught by anyone, Chris gave helped him to build his form but in the end he created his own by combining his old pitching form to his new pitching form. And Chris already said it. But it happens to other people who wasn't taught when they were young, so you can say it is common for some people. But the difference is that he works harder than Furuya, of course they both work hard but because Sawamura knows that he isn't as good as Furuya, he works harder than anyone else. He grows as a pitcher everytime because he gets experience and confidence every game. He doesn't have the talent like Furuya, but he was able to prove that hardwork and practice makes permanent. His Cutter was created because of the crossfire pitch which enables him to break the ball a little. But with the right grip he was able to create a new Cutter ball Kai

(Edited by Soulace14)

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