The gap between Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball can be seen just by looking at the success rate of Asian players in the Major League. Although there are successful cases like Nomo Hideo and Ichiro Suzuki, most of the time, there are more failures—the velocity that's called a "fireball" in Nippon Professional Baseball and the defense that's considered beautiful are just everyday occurrences for MLB players.
Upon seeing the difficult expressions on his players' faces, Kohkubo Yuuki decided to ease their pressure a bit: "Although the American all-star team's players might be stronger in individual abilities, you must remember that baseball is always a team sport, and individual skills often cannot determine the outcome of the game."
