"This child is not just a rare left-handed pitcher. Can he really have such an exceptional sense of baseball? He's already started mastering the tunneling effect at such a young age."
"Initially, we only said we'd do our best, but seeing this now, it doesn't matter the cost—we must take this child to our Waseda Jitsugyo!"
The so-called tunneling effect refers to a pitcher's ability to make two different types of pitches look very similar, with the ball path having nearly no perceivable difference, causing the batter to misidentify the pitch type.
For instance, take Yu Darvish, currently the top pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball: his cutter and slider have very similar release actions, and the trajectories after release are also very similar, even the point at which they drop into the strike zone is nearly identical—
