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Room 416 of Orix’s Seitokan dorm, where Yoshinobu Yamamoto lived, is now empty.
The new year has arrived and the professional baseball world is starting to get moving. An annual event in January is the arrival of new players into the dorm. Each player is assigned a single room and begins their career as a professional player. Orix, seeking its fourth straight championship title, has rookies shining in its “legendary room.”
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Orix’s Seitokan dorm was relocated from Kobe to Maishima, Osaka in 2017. There are 42 rooms in total and the majority of dorm residents live in rooms that are approximately 11 tatami mats in size. However, five of the rooms are “First Army rooms” with an area of around 16 tatami mats. As the name suggests, this is a special room where players who have achieved a certain level of success in the first team are allowed to enter. The only pitcher currently in action is Shunpei Yamashita, the 2023 Rookie of the Year. He was “promoted” in the offseason.
Among the five rooms is Room 416, which has been vacant for five years and was used by pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who joined the Dodgers. Yamamoto began living alone in the 2019 offseason and moved out of the dorm, but no one has been allowed to use the same room since then. It’s a “promotion room” that everyone dreams of, but the dorm manager, Mami Yamada, says: “Of course you only get in if you’re a first-team player.” I can’t judge it on my own, but you have to show a “reasonable” performance. We won’t ask the team for permission either. “I’m looking forward to strengthening with new players.”
There have also been legendary rooms in the past. When the former Seitokan was based in Kobe, it was an annual event for newcomers to tour the “Ichiro Room” in Room 406. After Mr. Ichiro left the dorm, no new residents showed up until the end. The former Seitokan building has already been dismantled, but the sign with “406 Ichiro Suzuki” is said to have been carefully preserved.
After retiring as an active player in 1995, Yamada Dormitory Master served as a goal scorer and shot thrower. After watching top-notch players like Yamamoto and outfielder Masanao Yoshida (Red Sox) up close as rookies, he said, “I don’t let the opponent influence me. I have the impression that they are players who have their own individuality and do it well. They train hard. The times have changed. “I think the common characteristics of successful players will remain the same,” he says with genuine feeling.
Pitcher Kosuke Kawachi (St. Catherine’s Academy), who was drafted second and entered the dorm on the 7th, said: “My birthday happened to be April 16th. I think I have some kind of connection to room 416. The room with my birthday number is Yoshinobu Yamamoto. “It’s a pitcher’s room, so I’d love to be there,” he said enthusiastically. Pitcher Yoshiyuki Tomatsu (Kyoei), ranked third, also expressed his strength, saying, “I want to go for (Room 416).”
The team, looking to win its fourth consecutive league title, lays the foundation for the growth and success of young, energetic players every year. It may not be long before a player emerges who inherits the “success room.”
[Detaillierte Fotos des Raumes]Oryx’s legendary “Room 416”, a room where no one has lived in five years
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