The owner of Goro’s team is a cheapskate. His team has a lot of low-pay players who just graduated from the minors this season. So they can get nervous and get into a slump because they lack major league experience.
The anime shows the highs and lows of these rookies’ season, they also showed their losses, so I think the anime is still fun and realistic.
Never underestimate the importance of the mental game in pro sports. For example, James Buster Douglas KOed Mike Tyson when Tyson was in his prime. Douglas fought the fight of his life cuz his mom died a few days prior to his fight. After that great win, Douglas immediately lost his next fight and never touched the championship or beat anyone of note afterward.
Of all the countless sports animes i´ve watched major is actually one of the rather realistic ones, mentally aswell as physically, ive seen lots of people going “lol broken bats thats so unrealistic” for example but i watch MLB every 2nd day or so and i´ve seen countless games where multiple bats were crushed, and even some where the same batter got 2 bats broken in one at bat.
Concerning Goro´s pitching well atm there isnt anyone in the MLB who throws fastballs above 100mph but there are alot of guys who can throw up to 99mph so adding some extra miles to make it plausible that goro´s able to survive in the majors makes sense. And “slumps” are a common occurance in the majors and iam sure alot of times the right words at the right time are able to fix problems countless hours of extra batting pratice couldn´t.
Imho major comes quite close to the real thing without being too realistic.
Well alot of bla on my side but GJ on this one umai, was a nice double feature this week:>
I think goro’s fastball is slower in the manga than in the anime. I think his top speed in the manga may be 100 mph but the anime added a few mph for some extra oomph. 102 mph in the anime is farfetched for a 19 years old who hasn’t fully developed his muscle mass yet.
I am a casual baseball fan that watches most playoffs games and occasionally regular season, and personally I have only seen 100 a few times (Bard from Boston?). 98 for a top relief pitcher like Papelbon is common.
BTW my previous comment was not a spoiler, I think the grand slam pitch to Gibson junior in the World Cup was 102 mph in the anime, and 100 mph in the manga. It’s not some magic number I found in manga chapters that haven’t been shown in the anime yet.
zumaiya from detroit can throw 100mph consistantly for 2-3 innings and joba chamberlin can go upto 100mph also but i haven’t seen any pitcher throw a gyroball
The anime for some reason amps up the speed to unreasonable numbers. But reaching 98 or 99 isn’t that impossible, even for a starting pitcher.
Ever heard of Washington’s super rookie Strasburg? He’s only 21 and he is a SP who throws 100mph. In some ways, he’s the closest real life person we can compare Goro to.
Either him or Felix Hernandez, who has a moving fastball that hits the upper 90′s and has hit 100mph more than once (back when he made his debut at 19 years old).
As for the gyroball, it’s over-played in the anime to an extreme. It’s called a phantom pitch for a reason, yet I think in the 3rd season there was at least 3 guys who pitched it. The only thing that’s really special about it is that it fools the hitters on its speed.
Look, it’s an anime, not a baseball documentary or something. Seriously. You don’t see people saying “Why does Naruto wear orange? Ninja are supposed to be stealthy.” Know why? Because people realize that Naruto is an anime. So is Major. Hontou.
At least what happens in Major is plausible, chapter 449 of Naruto is the biggest nonsense ever lol
I think the reason for so many Japanese pitchers using the gyroball in Major is due to the fact that in real life, the gyroball was invented in Japan, and while that pitch is almost non-existent in America, it’s at least seen occasionally in Japan.
Maybe the author wanted to emphasize one of the things that made Japanese baseball unique, or maybe he just wanted to teach the readers something new. I never heard of the gyroball before Major and I’m glad I learned something new.
Comparing Major to real baseball makes for interesting discussion, that’s all. If anything, I think its one of the best “realistic” representations of baseball I’ve seen in anime form, and I watch a lot of baseball (MLB, MiLB, NPB, and LVBP).
A ton of things that happen in Major have happened in real life, or there is something that its comparable to. Hence comparing Goro to Hernandez or Strasburg.
Also, it’s cool that its getting people interested in baseball (which is a dying sport) and that they’re learning stuff. I wish they would mention the shuuto, at least, since they talked about the gyro.
I only mentioned the gyroball for being unrealistic because someone mentioned they had never seen one before.
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The owner of Goro’s team is a cheapskate. His team has a lot of low-pay players who just graduated from the minors this season. So they can get nervous and get into a slump because they lack major league experience.
The anime shows the highs and lows of these rookies’ season, they also showed their losses, so I think the anime is still fun and realistic.
Never underestimate the importance of the mental game in pro sports. For example, James Buster Douglas KOed Mike Tyson when Tyson was in his prime. Douglas fought the fight of his life cuz his mom died a few days prior to his fight. After that great win, Douglas immediately lost his next fight and never touched the championship or beat anyone of note afterward.
Of all the countless sports animes i´ve watched major is actually one of the rather realistic ones, mentally aswell as physically, ive seen lots of people going “lol broken bats thats so unrealistic” for example but i watch MLB every 2nd day or so and i´ve seen countless games where multiple bats were crushed, and even some where the same batter got 2 bats broken in one at bat.
Concerning Goro´s pitching well atm there isnt anyone in the MLB who throws fastballs above 100mph but there are alot of guys who can throw up to 99mph so adding some extra miles to make it plausible that goro´s able to survive in the majors makes sense. And “slumps” are a common occurance in the majors and iam sure alot of times the right words at the right time are able to fix problems countless hours of extra batting pratice couldn´t.
Imho major comes quite close to the real thing without being too realistic.
Well alot of bla on my side but GJ on this one umai, was a nice double feature this week:>
I think goro’s fastball is slower in the manga than in the anime. I think his top speed in the manga may be 100 mph but the anime added a few mph for some extra oomph. 102 mph in the anime is farfetched for a 19 years old who hasn’t fully developed his muscle mass yet.
I am a casual baseball fan that watches most playoffs games and occasionally regular season, and personally I have only seen 100 a few times (Bard from Boston?). 98 for a top relief pitcher like Papelbon is common.
BTW my previous comment was not a spoiler, I think the grand slam pitch to Gibson junior in the World Cup was 102 mph in the anime, and 100 mph in the manga. It’s not some magic number I found in manga chapters that haven’t been shown in the anime yet.
zumaiya from detroit can throw 100mph consistantly for 2-3 innings and joba chamberlin can go upto 100mph also but i haven’t seen any pitcher throw a gyroball
Wiki has some info on that:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyroball
The anime for some reason amps up the speed to unreasonable numbers. But reaching 98 or 99 isn’t that impossible, even for a starting pitcher.
Ever heard of Washington’s super rookie Strasburg? He’s only 21 and he is a SP who throws 100mph. In some ways, he’s the closest real life person we can compare Goro to.
Either him or Felix Hernandez, who has a moving fastball that hits the upper 90′s and has hit 100mph more than once (back when he made his debut at 19 years old).
As for the gyroball, it’s over-played in the anime to an extreme. It’s called a phantom pitch for a reason, yet I think in the 3rd season there was at least 3 guys who pitched it. The only thing that’s really special about it is that it fools the hitters on its speed.
Look, it’s an anime, not a baseball documentary or something. Seriously. You don’t see people saying “Why does Naruto wear orange? Ninja are supposed to be stealthy.” Know why? Because people realize that Naruto is an anime. So is Major. Hontou.
At least what happens in Major is plausible, chapter 449 of Naruto is the biggest nonsense ever lol
I think the reason for so many Japanese pitchers using the gyroball in Major is due to the fact that in real life, the gyroball was invented in Japan, and while that pitch is almost non-existent in America, it’s at least seen occasionally in Japan.
Maybe the author wanted to emphasize one of the things that made Japanese baseball unique, or maybe he just wanted to teach the readers something new. I never heard of the gyroball before Major and I’m glad I learned something new.
Comparing Major to real baseball makes for interesting discussion, that’s all. If anything, I think its one of the best “realistic” representations of baseball I’ve seen in anime form, and I watch a lot of baseball (MLB, MiLB, NPB, and LVBP).
A ton of things that happen in Major have happened in real life, or there is something that its comparable to. Hence comparing Goro to Hernandez or Strasburg.
Also, it’s cool that its getting people interested in baseball (which is a dying sport) and that they’re learning stuff. I wish they would mention the shuuto, at least, since they talked about the gyro.
I only mentioned the gyroball for being unrealistic because someone mentioned they had never seen one before.