New Ground

 In January 11, The Athletics have agreed to a one-year contract with right-hander Shintaro Fujinami, according to ESPN's Jeff passan. He was posted by the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball on December 1 last year. He was the same class as Shohei Ohtani and stepping from high school ball into the Tigers' rotation and pitching to a 2.75 ERA in 137 2/3 innings as a 19-year old rookie starter. After the rookie season, he kept up the great performance for 3 seasons. As a result, he bacame a young ace of the Tigers. However, he struggled from 2017 to 2021 season due to control issue. Although, the 2022 season, he made 10 starts and six appearances with Tigers, pitching to a 3.38 ERA in 66 2/3 innings. In addition, his walk rate turned 7.6%, which was the first time since 2016 he is posted a walk rate under 10%. A lot of japanese baseball fans expect that he will not be active in MLB, however I think that "how many starters can pitch over 100 mph fastball and split in MLB?". I only know such players Shohei Ohtani(LAA) and Kodai Senga(NYM), so I hope for his potential. The Oakland Athletics is a team of reonstruction period and have lack of the rotation, so he will be able to geta lot of his pirch opportunities. I am looking forward to his hard-pitching in Oakland. 

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My introduction

 Hi! My name is Keisuke. I am from Hyogo prefecture, and I go to this university from parents' home by train. I belong to engineering, and when I become second year, I especially want to learn about networks.  My interests are watching a baseball game. Especially, I like Major League Baseball. I am supporting Seattle Mariners, so I was happy that Mariners clinched postseason this season for the first time in 21 years. I am looking for friends who like baseball. I also like listening to music. I usually listen to music on my way to university. I especially like Mr.Children, so I want to bacome friends like Mr.Children. My personality is shy. I am not good at talking to people very much, so I am happy if you talk to me. I do not have many friends who have similar hobbies, so I want to have friends who have simillar hobbies.
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Big Contract

 Today, MLB got excited about a topic. Texas Rangers signed ace right-hander Jacob deGrom to a five-year free-agent contract. The deal will pay deGrom $185 million. deGrom, 34, is one of the greatest pitchers of his generation, a two-time National League Cy Young Award winner when he played for the New York Mets. I would like to expess my feelings about this contract. I thought that Rangers really wanted an elete starting pitcher. This season, Rangers ended 4th in AL west. As one of the causes, starting pitchers' ERA is 4.63(25th in MLB). So, for the Rangers who want to compete from next season onwards, deGrom must have been wanted as an ace pitcher. This strong feeling was read from the term of this contract. In fact, deGrom has not pitched a full Major League season since 2019 because of repeated injuries. In addition, next season is his age-35 season. So, his performance may be down or he may not be able to pitch throughout the season due to injuries. Nevertheless, Rangers decid...
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My weekend

 Saturday, I went my grandmother's house with my mother. I drove to there from my house for the first time. The distance from my house to my grandmother's house is about 130km, and it takes about two hours. At first, I was a little nervous because people who live around my hometown (they are Himeji  people) usually drive in a rough way(very short distance between two cars,many unnecessary lane changes...). However, the day of Himeji byepass was relatively calm, so I also could be driving calmly. Also, there was one happy thing for me. When I was driving on a motor highway, I moved climbing lane for the car which was driving behind me to overtake my car. the car turned on the hazard lamps when my car was overtaken. The driver is very kind because turning on the hazard lamps means "Thank you". I felt happy and driving may be fun then. However, I was tired because of long drive, so the return was my mother's driving.
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