It's still too early for the pitcher. It's better to focus on hitting hitters this year."

A Japanese baseball legend from Major League Baseball (MLB) gave advice to Shohei Otani (LA Angels), who is hitting the upper limit every day.

Kazuhiro Sasaki, who was called the "Dream God" when he was a player, appeared on Japanese Sunday Morning' on the 28th and said, "At least this year, it's better to focus on the batter than the pitcher."

Recently, Otani has attracted the most attention since entering the United States. He throws a 102 mile (about 163 km) straight ball as a pitcher, while as a batter, he hits 11 consecutive games in a demonstration game, 5 homers, and an OPS of 1.701, making the American continent enthusiastic every day.

In particular, against San Diego Padres on the 21st, he showed the true nature of ``two-way with two-way'' by hitting two hits and one run for up to four innings as a pitcher and two hits in two at-bats as a batter.

However, Sasaki, like most baseball legends, is negative for the pitching parallel. On this day, Sasaki expressed his opinion, "As a pitcher, it is better to slowly increase the number of pitches (rather than playing as a starter right now). Now, it is better to focus on the batter side." Jang Hoon, who appeared with him, also said, "It's still a demonstration game. I'm especially worried about injuries.

Kazuhiro Sasaki attends a press conference for the 2012 Korea-Japan Professional Baseball Legend Match.

When asked, "Are you still as a pitcher?" Sasaki expressed himself more carefully, saying, "Because I haven't been much better from my right elbow injury." “Pitcher” Otani's performance in this demonstration game is 7.88 with an average ERA of two losses in three games.

Sasaki is a baseball legend between the U.S. and Japan, who served as the finishing pitcher for the Yokohama Dena Bass Stars and the Seattle Mariners. He has recorded 252 saves for 12 years in Japanese professional baseball and 129 saves for 4 years in the United States. With 381 saves in the U.S. and Japan, it ranks second among Japanese pitchers after Hitoki Iwase (407 saves in NPB alone).

In particular, in the'Drug Age' MLB, which was an unprecedented riding fighter, he was ranked as a rookie of the American League (AL) in 2000, and in 2001, he led the most wins (116 wins) in a single season in the club's career with 45 saves, the most since the founding of Seattle.