Triple Three Yamada Tetsuhin fell in love with "Merchandise item glove" I made a question about Mr. Donnaya and Murata Yukinobu about glove making

One company employee in Osaka "Donaiya (Donnaia)"There are also many fans in professional baseball players, glove makers who knows who they know. Gloves that can be purchased by professional baseball players who are able to offer gloves free of charge by themselves are the glove development confidential with Yakult Yamada Tetsuhito who achieved triple three, and what is "the ultimate glove" I tried plenty of thoroughly before the start of the professional baseball season.

◆ About Donnaire
GIGAZINE (hereinafter referred to as "G"):
The emerging Donnaire as a baseball manufacturer is characterized by the name "Donnaia", but this means "Do not you!" (What do you mean?)

Mr. Hiroyuki Murata (hereinafter referred to as "Murata"):
This is the current Rakuten 1 military coach "Bunbun Maru" Mr. Ikeyama (Takahiro IkeyamaRakuten Ichiba Striking Coach) named it. Initially I was planning to name it "Dream Agent" and I made a logo with "DA" and took the trademark before establishing the company. Mark's trademark registration took time, so I first applied for the DA mark trademark. Later, when the trademark of Mark succeeded and the next one became a trademark of name, "Dream Agent" was taken by a major electric machine maker in advance. Moreover, the purpose of the trademark is "things related to baseball events", so that it is completely out. Although I can not use the dream agent, I was forced to decide a new name in a hurry because the logo of DA was decided.


Murata:
So, at that time, I was recruited as a good professional baseball player and sporting goods store, etc. that started with "D" and "A" at the time, but as I was looking for a good name that seemed to be "Diamond All Stars" . I decided Mr. Ikeyama to decide from that, on the phone "I will say about 100 candidates from now, so decide," I said. When I read the third name, Mr. Ikeyama said "I came up with it" and said "A (A)". If it says "Dream ace" next, Mr. Ikeyama says "How about Ace?" I am older with a superstar, but as I expected I also came to mind "I will order an ace for anyone!", Then Mr. Ikeyama says "Do not do" "Oh," Donnaia ", this one! When. It was Donniea who happened to be born like this.

G:
Does not it → Donniea? It is an episode like 'ramen shop' s "Nanin kan den" (laugh)

Murata:
That's right (bitter smile) "I do not have it" originated from Mr. Ikeyama. But since I thought that I absolutely disliked Donnai, I put Donnela at the last 20th of the 20 lists listed as candidates for a name I would like to apply as a trademark to a patent attorney. In that case, all 19 other than Donnaire can not take the trademark and only Donnaire is OK.

G:
Did only reference treatment survive?

Murata:
Although I am planning to go to drown, only Donnaire who reluctantly mentioned that Mr. Ikeyama said is OK (lol) It is originally.

G:
At that time, "Donnaia" I did not like, how is it now?

Murata:
I think that it was good with Donnaire now.

G:
It seems to be Osaka anyhow.

Murata:
However, if it is not possible to make good things with this, it will become a mere shit, so in that sense it also became a pressure to ourselves. I think that was good. At that time, I was activeShinya MiyamotoWhen reporting that he launched "Donnaire" to him, he got very angry and said, "Do not be afraid. Stop talking like a Takoyaki store." Even if I say "Ikeyama -san thought", "It is not good for Mr. Ikeyama to think". "I am a contractor in Mizuno, Miyamoto, but what if you think" if you are "Miyamoto you contract with Donnaia"? I think that it is strange because "Mizuno no Miyamoto" is a name and a name, so say "Murata of Murata" is better, then Miyamoto said "I do not like Murata of Murata What ... ". Now Miyamoto likes Donnaire quite a lot. It praises me that it is a good glove.

G:
Is it the opposite of 'name change', the name comes later?

Murata:
I think so.

◆ Donnai and Tetsuto Yamada
G:
last year,Triple three(Yakult Swallows that achieved at least 30% batting average, 30 home runs or more, and clearing 30 stolen bases or more)Tetsuto YamadaIt was also the opportunity for Dennya to be widely known to baseball fans that the players were using the gloves of Donnaire. When it comes to Yamada players class, it is common to contract with sports equipment manufacturers and receive tools provided free of charge. Yet, Yamada bought a glove of Donnaire by himself, that is, "using the glove of Donnaia" "paying money" is not it?


Murata:
That's right. I used a commercially available product "DJIM" of Donnaire for three years.

G:
From 2016 as a donor's first advisory player Yamada agreed with the playerI decided to do it. Is the glove free for now?

Murata:
It is free from this year. Actually, I am sorry about the contract with Yamada this time, I will call it "Yamada" as usual. Whether contracting or not, if I do it, either way was OK. Because SNS of the current era is developed, everyone knows that "Yamada uses Donnaa". I know it three years ago. I have to pay the contract by contract. However, at the time the company was launched, it became possible to deliver this Yamada catalog to the sports goods store handling Donnaire's glove even though there was no catalog.


Murata:
At the sports shop who recommended Donnel's grab to the customer, everyone should have been laughed at the beginning. When telling the customer the name Donya. Still "I tried grabbing once," I think that the customer finally understood the goodness. It means that we finally got back to the shops who dealt with Donnaire from the beginning. "I do not know Donaiya, see this, Yamada's using it", I signed up with Yamada for repaying that people in the store can tell.

G:
Yamada is doing a tool contract with other manufacturers, right?

Murata:
I am doing it.

G:
Is it just excluding gloves or is it different?

Murata:
(It is a manufacturer) Last year was a contract with all the tools, Yamada already used doner's grab for three seasons. In this season, we excluded only the glove, and it was decided that it was officially contracted in Donnaire.

G:
Other manufacturers are reluctant, do not they?

Murata:
It is unusual. Is not it also that he became a player who can say such a thing?

◆ Glove circumstances of professional baseball players
G:
There seems to be an example that some professional athletes use another company's grab even if they hide the logo. I bet it's a matter of contract. Are there many professional baseball players using Donnaire?

Murata:
That's fine. This is also a feature of Donnaire, but we also "sell" to professional players in Donnaire. Normally, manufacturers provide tools to professional baseball players for free.

G:
Are you scattering roses?

Murata:
To put it badly ... It's scattering roses (lol) However, there are plenty of players buying donor's gloves to get the tools for free. There are also players who buy three and some players use in the game. Even at the stadium, some athletes are calling out with a feeling that "Please show me that mitt."

G:
What triggered Yamada to use donor's gloves?

Murata:
It is the beginning that there was a player using Donnaie's grab and I was glad to borrow him.

G:
Is it common to exchange tools with professional baseball players?

Murata:
There seems to be quite a lot.

G:
Specifically, who is using it?

Murata:
Everyone has a contract with another company ... ....

(I heard secretly later, the name of the so-called so-called players who are not baseball fans but also baseball fans, including former and top batters, stoppers of the top team in Japan, foreigners of the former home run king, etc. came out)

G:
All the player of Bali Bali is doing a tool contract. Do you still use Donnel's gloves in the game?

Murata:
Thankfully. All professional baseball players are in a position to offer tools. As a matter of fact, athletes entering the professional are being offered tools to leading manufacturers from the amateur era. For large schools in Koshien regulars, major manufacturers provide tools, and even when entering a professional it is often called a contract with the same manufacturer. It is something like Aoi bargain, and it is not unusual that it is decided at the time of entering a professional. Some players have never bought any tools since the Little League era. In that world selling to professionals, and the existence of Donya which sells the same thing as a commercial item is likely to be different.

G:
Mizuno, SSK, ZETT, as well as overseas manufacturers as big manufacturers such as Nike, Adidas, Wilson crowded, were the barriers to entry small?

Murata:
Normally nobody will enter (lol) Because we have to fight with major manufacturers.

G:
Mr. Murata was originally Wilson (now ·Amea Sports Japan) Although it is said that he was in charge of tool development and professional baseball players, what kind of work did you do?

Murata:
In tool development, we initially handled bats, not gloves, primarily metal bats. I am improving the American bat for Japan. After that, I became involved as a professional baseball player in glove development. Gloves are difficult, unlike bats, they are not players and no, they talk to each other when they are not cool. I feel like leaning towards the glove gradually while doing such interaction.

G:
I felt funny and fell in love.

Murata:
I agree. But at first it does not work at all. Because players say only abstract things. It was my responsibility to convey the opinion of the players to the manufacturing factory, but I could not finish things as per the image. I went back and forth many times between the players and the factory, so I thought that I had to study this.

G:
Is it like an interpreter?

Murata:
I agree. It is like a bridge between professional athletes and factories. At that time, Wilson sold the American glove as it was, but I needed to develop a tool for the Japanese, I decided to develop a new series for Japan. However, at that time the factory also made American gloves and never made something for Japan. So I had to tell the factory that Japanese model is like this. Make it by trial and error, start over, make over and start over. When thinking that something was done, I was asked to be seen as "a glove watching!" As a master of the spherical world. It is a bad story.

G:
Are you pushing a contractor from another manufacturer?

Murata:
Yes. And, please tell me a bit at a time. I have accumulated it.

G:
Is not that legal?

Murata:
It will be legal. I was young then I was desperate, I did not know well. As I entered Wilson as an amateur, I became professional at once, so I did not know anything scary, I was not aware of common sense in the professional world.

G:
Were professional athletes surprised?

Murata:
I guess I was surprised. It seems that the manufacturer responsible for more than professional athletes was surprised.

◆ History of independence
G:
From baseball fans who develop professional baseball players and tools, it seems like a dream, why did you decide to stand up?

Murata:
I wanted to do something I could not do with a major manufacturer. Donnel's glove leather is the same as used by professional baseball players. Even if you are singing as a ○ ○ player model by other manufacturers, it is completely different from what the players use. I wanted general people, especially children, to use the same things used by professional players. However, as it is difficult in terms of cost, it is impossible for a salaried worker. First of all, it is normal to manufacture it considering the cost. Profit degree It is impossible for a salaried worker to do with outsiders, and then only an individual can do it.


G:
Is the glove used by the professional so different from the glove that is on the market?

Murata:
It is completely different.

G:
Do you understand it at the amateur level or the grass baseball level?

Murata:
I understand. Because everything is different. It looks different as well. Besides, if you release the glove (as a commercial item) used by a famous professional baseball player, nobody can catch it.

G:
Because it is a model only for that person who is not considering versatility. It sounds like a racing machine.

Murata:
Oh, maybe so.

G:
Were you confident when you were independent? It is said that you can quit Wilson.

Murata:
It was only my desire to have the same thing as professional. I thought that no one could do it. It was supposed that I was the only person in charge of Japan who professed the entire team, 24 teams including 2 troops, and also occupied the major in Japan. As a major manufacturer, for example, one of the Hanshin Tigers' military personnel is one person, and two military personnel are one person. Further development also has people specializing in development. I had the mission of having a professional charge, a development of a glove, and a sales so that I could do it all by myself.

G:
The sense of mission was preceded. Excuse me, did not you think much about profitability?

Murata:
I did not think about it. Because it is not money.

G:
If you can make money, other work would be better.

Murata:
I guess. Now that Yamada uses popularity, its profile is coming out, "I am profitable?" It is said that you can see the price (of the glove).

G:
If it is a hard type glove, the donor's glove is cheap about 20,000 yen more than the major manufacturer.

Murata:
I can not make money (bitter smile)

G:
Was there anyone who opposed independence around?

Murata:
There were only people who opposed it.

G:
How was the reaction of professional athletes when they launched Donnais?

Murata:
I was surprised, but there were many people who thought that it was "like Murata." Not only athletes, but also at sports shops.

◆ What is the "type" of three types of gloves?
G:
Mr. Murata is a glove independently developed independently of the mission sense, but"Three types of gloves, story that both professional and amateurs will fit three kinds"Although it is being done, what is "type"?

Murata:
I will explain about Uchinohara. I have heard many stories about many professional athletes, especially players called masterpieces, and I have also listened to a variety of people from high school baseball schools of high school baseball and children of weak school. Then, strangely, I found something in common with professional athletes who are top and amateur 's weak schools. With the usage of the glove between the top professional and the lowest level people. Specifically, it is what "pocket" to catch a ball is.


G:
Is it like a player's "type"?

Murata:
That's right.

G:
For example, do you mean that the three types are A, B, C, the professionals also have A type, B type, C type, and even amateurs have A type, B type, C type?

Murata:
That's right.

G:
Is there a bias in type?

Murata:
There is. There are biases also by professional team, there are many A type in players of a certain team, and there are many B types in another team. I think that this may be caused by the leader. How to catch the ball changes depending on how you teach.

G:
I see. Is there a "mold" that fits the way you catch it?

Murata:
To be exact, it is the "type" of a series of actions to catch + throwing. Of course the type will change depending on the level. High school baseball player, grass baseball player. I am doing softball now, but there are also many types of members of that team, which is interesting. I also like to spoil the sports goods store, there are occasions when there are 7 or 8 high school students at that time. When collecting everyone and asking "What grabs do you want?", "I am this good" "I am here" is divided. Even if you do not receive a ball, you can understand it just by putting it in your hand. It is the same when you receive a ball.

G:
I see. The glove that is comfortable is easy to use and error is reduced. Are three types of Donnaire's glove's "DJIM" "DJIK" "DJII" three types?

Murata:
That's right. Three types of grabs for infield hands. Also, this year I gave a small model of DJIM that Yamada is using.

G:
It is interesting that all professional and amateurs apply to any of the three types.

Murata:
Now is the story for Uchino. Last year I brought out a new catcher mitt, which I had been researching before launching Donnaire, and it has finally become a product for 6 years. I asked the professional catcher to use it, listen to the impression, asked the amateur players to use it in the same way, took the impression and made the prototype based on them repeatedly. For major manufacturers, we will make about 100 pieces at once and choose to go from there among them. Every year a new product will also come out. In the case of myself, if you improve, make one piece, and if you improve it make one piece. It took me six years until the new model. It was a catcher mit who finally sold the same model for 6 years and finally changed the model.

◆ What is a "commercial item" used by a pro?
G:
Donya's glove is made for Japan for rigid type, Vietnam production for soft type. Does this mean that the material is different?

Murata:
No, it is the same. Leather is totally together. What is different is whether the part where the hand is put is black or leather (the same color) and the hardness of the core. The harder the harder the core is. After that, is the Japanese or Vietnamese who passes strings? The material is exactly the same as it is sent from Japan. Therefore, I think that the quality of glove for Denny's soft type is higher than the hardness for other companies' gloves. Because it is for hard type of material used by professional and also for soft type.


G:
Dennya's way of thinking is opposite. Normally we develop professional tools first and bring down the technology to commercial products. It is a feeling from upstream to downstream, but there is neither a top nor a bottom in Donnay, is that the same for both professional and amateur?

Murata:
I agree. In that sense it is from the reverse. It is a form that "a commercial product is used by a pro".

G:
Does that mean that the level of professional can be used if the quality of commercial products is thoroughly checked?

Murata:
That's right. Yamada's glove is also commonly called "Yamada model", but in Donya it is "DJIM". Since Yamada uses the standard model of ourselves, there is a part number first and that is Yamada player using model. This is also the opposite of major companies.


Murata:
In today's era, even major manufacturers will go to ask to put items in sports shops. But I am not doing business. I do not even post addresses or contacts in the catalog (lol) I do not want to make money, so I do not want to increase the number of business partners here and there. I think that it would be good if you treat it at a shop that understands the goodness of Donnaire's glove. Thanks to you, I got inquiries from many sports shops, but I'm sorry but there are only a few shops that I will place newly and I am refusing to do so.

G:
Is the number of gloves to be produced decided?

Murata:
That's right.

G:
Can not make more numbers?

Murata:
The capacity of the factory is big. You can make as many pieces as you want to make. It might be possible to arrange the materials if we want to arrange it. But the biggest problem is "total inspection".

G:
Does Mr. Murata inspect everything?

Murata:
I am doing everything.

G:
Is it all gloves to ship?

Murata:
Yes. I put it all in my hands and inspect it. Sometimes it gets scratched.


G:
How are major manufacturers doing?

Murata:
I guess there are many unannounced checks. But I want to do everything. I do not want to do only the range that I can see. I want to put out only convincing things. Naturally, it is done (neatly). Leather and mold are surely. Although there are few cases where there is a problem even if you inspect goods, I do not want to have even one. Then, there is a limit to the number that can be made, and I can not increase the number of shops by all means.

G:
Mr. Murata was the bottleneck?

Murata:
That's right. After inspecting, I will do all the slips by handwriting. Further checking the destination checking again. Yamada is coming back to Osaka on the off season, there are phones and LINE saying "Where is Murata?" "Playing" until Yasuda and late into the night, inspected again from the morning. Yamada → inspection → Yamada → inspections (laughs) There were times when I chose Yamada's glove in a karaoke box (lol)

G:
By the way, Yamada is now wearing the number 1 which Mr. Ikeyama had worn. Is there no mention from Ikeyama to Yamada?

Murata:
Although everyone seems to be in the direction of Ikeyama → Yamada from the jersey number, there is no flow of Yamada from Mr. Ikeyama. At the time he launched Donya, he told Mr. Ikeyama who was at Yakult, "It is said that professionals provided free of charge from high school will not use Donya's gloves." Of course it is a just argument. But I was excited, "Like, look, I will sell it to professionally for free". Now Yakult alone bought quite a few.

G:
I see. It is common sense to say that professional athletes can not use Donya which only produces commercial products.

Murata:
Major in the age of salaried workers (MLB) To go camping,Barry BondsYaIvan RodriguezI also talked about it, but everyone is using "classic" (hereinafter referred to as "marketable") as usual. It is not a special model made only for a certain player, but a commercial item. I also appreciate it when they are offered from the manufacturer. Japan alone is doing only for this player. The other side (major) is super - class if you ask me. Kobo I will choose a brush. To be able to use the standard as it is natural is that the arm is on.


G:
That is to master it. Make up by raising your own skills.

Murata:
That's right. On the contrary it is a professional so you can use anything. I think that it is commonplace, but it seems that major manufacturers do not think it is natural, "I am surprised that you are selling the standard (to the professional)", but to me It is a matter of course.

G:
It is the other way around.

Murata:
It is the reverse. Thanks to being one and only existence (laugh)


G:
There is a fact that the professional actually chooses Donya's glove. The fact that professionals are buying the same goods is, from the amateurs, that "You can buy exactly the same tools as pros", it is irresistible.

Murata:
Order (order customization) is also the same. You can change the color of the glove and the web (part of the web), but the professional is the same order only. I can do it only from this. Even if it is told that it is narrow or long, I can not hear it. (Laugh) Professional and general people are the same. Because it's not a manufacturer I made for a professional.

G:
Murata says that both professional and amate are the same as one user, are not you?

Murata:
Of course it is. Rather it may be that professionals are treated as evil (lol) because they are gifts from other manufacturers too. Children with the glove of Donnais are bought by my father, I bought for pocket money.

G:
I was wrong.

Murata:
That's right.

G:
Are you up to preferential treatment? (Lol)

Murata:
Now, there is no glove in the shop because it is sold out. Everyone waits for a reservation at a sports shop. There is a reservation table, but as in the case of ○○ sports store, there is a name called Yakult □ □ player. I won the one I ordered earlier. Neither professional nor amate. Actually the same in Yamada. Next to sports shop's 40 pieces is Yamada feeling.

G:
Yamada is the only advisor contract pro for Donnaire, is not it?

Murata:
There is no way. It is equal. Everything.

◆ Making Growth · Growing
G:
I heard that you are raising Yamada's glove now.

Murata:
Yes. This. The right is a brand-new one and the left is raised for Yamada. Originally the same glove.


G:
Is this supposed to be used by Yamada at the pennant (official game)?

Murata:
That's right. Right now, the glove that Yamada uses is the glove that I used last year and another new glove. Yamada now has two, I am making one at hand. That is, one that I've been using for three years has been completed. The new one is Yamada 's one and one of my hands, breeding each other, and exchanging, for example, when I meet next at the Koshien. And we will exchange next time we will meet next, we will bring up the next glove to each other. Since the glove that I used so far is the 4th year of this year, I have to raise the next glove.

G:
Does a professional use the same glove for three years?

Murata:
No, I will change it every year. I will use 5 or 6 pieces per year, Uchinohe. Also, the following year it is common for manufacturers to receive 5 or 6 pieces. That is normal, Yamada uses the same glove for 4 years.

G:
It is unusual.

Murata:
Moreover, it is a standard.

G:
There is one glove that is finished now, which means that we make two spare gloves.

Murata:
That's right. Yamada and I are raising two while exchanging it, centering on the glove we have used so far. There may be an accident that a strap may be cut during the game. It is necessary to prepare for it.

G:
Is it supposed to be a generational change at a time?

Murata:
Someday I have to change. It is not yet decided when the glove you are making now will be launched. Is it next summer (April 2016) summer? I do not know if it will come next season. However, we need to prepare for that time. Anyway, everything is a classic DJIM.


G:
(Have the glove show you) Oh, it is true that the part number will be included in this part of the glove.


Murata:
The order number does not enter the product number. That is, Yamada's glove is a standard (commercial item). Since Yamada is an advisor since this year, just changing the label and putting his name in embroidery, the others are standard. At first it was a classic as well as the current glove, but Yakult also has people who use DJIM (DJIM) besides Yamada, so I do not know which one is Yamada's glove (lol) I peeled off and replaced the one for Yamada. This is only Yamada's special.

G:
So many loyal people.

Murata:
I am sending one today as well. So it is increasing.

G:
Because Mr. Murata is writing a slip, I understand.

Murata:
That's right.

G:
Professional athletes are also waiting for turns.

Murata:
The professional will reach me through other players and stakeholders. In other words, professionals do not have to go to sports shops. So, some players are faxed by handing slips. Some players write cleaner order forms than any sports store (laugh)

G:
There is no opportunity for professional baseball players to write slips on their own (laugh)

Murata:
Even high school ball children can leave it to the sports shop. But I can not go professional. I play the game at night as well. So I can not buy professional kids unless I go.

G:
It is Mr. Murata's job to make it possible for anyone to buy Donnaire.

Murata:
It is not that I can go to the whole team. But I will follow up when I come to Koshien or Kyocera Dome. Yamada is also here when I came to Osaka. But if you think carefully, you are great. If other manufacturers will come to the shrine (Jingu Stadium).

G:
It is exhausted as a creator.

Murata:
I am happy.

G:
Please tell me more about Yamada's gloves. What kind of work do you specifically say "raising a glove"?

Murata:
The state of a new article is a state of tickiness. In his case, the pocket is under the web. It's rather like a pitcher style. (On the bank) Instead of taking wide pockets, grab and grasp it gently. It becomes a form different from ordinary fielder.

This is the form of fielder catching ball.


Yamada is like this.


G:
Is it an image that catches a pinpoint?

Murata:
That's right. For that, I will make a pocket on the web side of the spreading glove. While doing so, just do catch the ball and soften it, then it's the adjustment of the lace (string). Expanding width, spreading, tightening and so on.

G:
Does the race part also have a player's preference?

Murata:
Yes. Everyone is different. Expanding, spreading, narrowing or something.

G:
By the way is Yamada players?

Murata:
Large, medium, small. Right now it is growing, but the race will grow as the game starts. Then I will make an adjustment that I must return the large, medium and small race again. When the season starts I am in Osaka and he is Tokyo, so I can meet only 3 times a month if Koshien is 3 cards in a month.


Murata:
Also, the conditioning will change for each season. In the beginning of the opening you can move. When you can move it is a good place to narrow it, the physical strength falls in the summer, it will not catch up with the ball. On the contrary spread widely so that the ball will catch even a little.

G:
You change it even during the season.

Murata:
Last year I participated in the Japanese series and fought over 160 games, so I busted and dropped about 2 fries last time. At times like that, you can raise this part and make the fly ball catch on easily. To tell the truth, before and after the All-Star, he sprained his left foot. It hid while hiding it. Since it can not be put in front of the ball, it is devised such as spreading out so that the ball catches easily for a while.

G:
Do you adjust so finely?

Murata:
I have to look at his physical condition firmly.

G:
Does Yamada say that you want this?

Murata:
There are many things to say from me. Yamada has few things to say from himself. So, from me, "Hey ... I'm having a sprain now, is not it because I am not catching up with the ball, then I'm going to spread this place, what do you say?" "What does it mean to spread this place?" Yamada will ask. Advice is given to the wind that "spreading leads to such things, so why not?" After dropping the fly, "Since we are catching this way, the ball has escaped from here, so why not stand up here and hit it?" Yamada is "I see." I exchanged image of Yamada and my image, and Miki head coach of the defensive running coach (Hajime MikiWe also participate in the head and coach Uchino defensive baseball stadium) and we will hold meetings on whether they are friends or not.

G:
I see.

◆ For the Golden Grab Award
Murata:
I teach Miki Coach, maintenance is me, and I use Yamada. But this kind of thing, no maker is doing it. The tool staff can not tell the defensive coaching coach anything. Please let me practice like this.

G:
Murata says?

Murata:
say. Because I'm a friend I know since Miki coach 's active career. Yamada, in contracting with Donya, "Golden Grab AwardI want to take a picture. " And I said, "I think that it is useless if Miki Coach and Yamada-san and three of us are unified together to take the Golden Grab Award." Therefore, I also say to Miki coach. Three people take the Golden Grab award together. Maybe you have seen the camp, Yamada is definitely defensive this year. Actually, since I was Yamada, I signed up. There is a feeling that I want to get better, and I practice more than anyone else. Also studying hard about gloves. Triple Three does not matter separately. I think he was contracting him even if he was still unknown. Because it is an effort.

G:
Maybe Mr. Murata seems to be a baseball player, or a baseball boy.

Murata:
I will find out if you investigate, Yamada last year,Defense rateIt is the top of 12 teams. However, the Golden Grab Award is a press ballot.

G:
Impression is important.

Murata:
Yamada continues to say this season. Golden Grab Award.

G:
I see. Is it a strategy to appeal to make reporters see it?

Murata:
I am also sometimes applied for interviews about Yamada to the people of the newspaper, but I am jokingly saying "I will receive the golden grab prize if I put it in Yamada (interview)". It is a joke, but important.


G:
Yamada You must watch it carefully for the player. Do you think you will qualify to take the Golden Grab Award?

Murata:
There is. After that, how to make catching that shows how good it is. A fascinating balloon, a catchy balloon. Kikuchi player (Ryosuke Kikuchi)I can do that.

G:
Indeed, it is useless to just capture, it is a conflict at the next level.

Murata:
That's right. But it is really good playing like Mr. Shinya Miyamoto. Technique to capture the ball in front that you have to jump in. Catch not to be anything. I think that the ultimate is there. Mr. Kuji (Kuji Hisaki) Or Mr. Kosaka (Makoto Kosaka)And.

G:
Yamada players were working on defensive practice at camp aiming at that. Although the fans are amused at the opening batting batting average.

Murata:
It's okay. I interacted with LINE yesterday, but it's okay. It is okay if you keep the defense perfect. I will beat Yamada. However, I did not practice at first when I joined. It's like this time, it's natural (lol) It's like getting angry at seniors "get home" by self-training and going home. He is a terrible guy.

G:
It's amazing (lol)

Murata:
But I thought it would be a star. Originally it came in short and the image is like Mr. Ikeyama. I'm slimming and handsome.

G:
I wonder if the team wishes to raise it as a big short of Slugger.

Murata:
I thought that it would popular.

G:
There is flower. surely.

Murata:
I practiced messed up from the 3rd year of joining. It's amazing since I got serious. I think I'm practicing more than anyone else now. I am practicing in Japan. It was at that time that I thought that it was a professional baseball player who I watched for the first time as a great amount of exerciseMakoto MatsuiIt is a player. I came to the stadium earlier than anyone, until late.

G:
It is a switch hitter (two hits). I have to double it.

Murata:
That's right. Since then, I have not seen players beyond Mr. Kazuo Matsui, but Yamada was the first thing I thought exceeded. That's why I want to support you.

G:
I see.

Murata:
However, LINE is terrible. "I like Donnai, I hate Murata" "Why abandon me?" (Laugh) But even when I am in work mode, they are completely different. When it comes to gloves, there is no fancy.


◆ Takahiro Ikeyama exists
G:
Yamada and Murata are a wonderful relationship. You mean a partner?

Murata:
Originally, Mr. Ikeyama taught me how to get along. At that time, since I went to Tokyo alone from Osaka and lived alone, I had him interfere with Mr. Ikeyama's house. Having a nice accommodation, my wife is going to have a meal. Because I am living alone, I have bento raised. Mr. Ikeyama's child knew well from a childhood and got a consultation on career (laugh) When I came to Tokyo, Ikeyama said "Since I became an adult and came out to Tokyo, Mabu of Tokyo (best friend), Ikeyama Mr. Ikeiyama was the first friend to make in Tokyo (laugh) "I, Mabu-chan," said. Mr. Ikeyama, even though I am a coach, I say "Please sign up earlier with me." Which manufacturer contracts with the coach?

G:
Coach and equipment contract (haha)

Murata:
Not sure (laugh)

G:
It is a relationship that makes it possible to discuss such a joke.

Murata:
I entered this industry as a professional professional, learning from Mr. Ikeyama that "the professional world is like this". I have not learned directly about this, but I think that Mr. Ikeyama taught me how to interact with professional athletes.

G:
Mr. Murata is surrounded by people's connection.

Murata:
Yes. Thanks to Mr. Ikeyama who could jump into the professional world.

◆ Yamada Tetsuhito Contract Memorial Model
G:
Soon Yamada Tetsuhito commemoration model glove will be on sale.

Murata:
This. We will sell it at the end of March 2016.



G:
Is this a soft model?

Murata:
I am making it from rigid material, but since rigid baseball has regulations of color, soft people will buy it. Especially the rigid · soft type does not call it "Tetsumi Yamada Contract Memorial Model". This color is the type Yamada used last year in practice. I used the classic for a long time, but I used a glove that changed color in the order last year and used it for practice. People of the fans knew that Yamada used it for practice and many people ordered the same color, so I decided to put out this color as a contract commemoration model.

G:
Black is a base and pink stitching is treated, but is Yamada 's order?


Murata:
That's right. If you want the same thing as Yamada, there are many people who ordered with the same color. This time, I will sell it with a price restrained by the users of Donnaire, Tetsuyama Yamada fans, sports shops and so on. By just saying once. So I'm making stamping as "YS 1 (Yakult Swallows 1)". This is the first and last.


G:
This contract commemoration model, will it be a fight?

Murata:
We have already decided the number of payments to all goods and sports shops. It is only the sports store's order, so it will end if sold out at the shop. I can make it with the same color as it is order, though. "YS 1" will not enter.

G:
How many sports shops handling Donya now?

Murata:
It is about 50 stores. It is many in Kyushu and Kinki.

G:
Do you really want to pay to prefectural sports shops?

Murata:
Ideal is the case. Originally I thought that only Kyushu with Osaka and factory would do. Thankfully I would like to deal with it from various places. It gradually became handled in various places. But I can not increase the number of gloves. I have enough capacity at the factory and I think that quality will not change even if I make a number, but inspection work ... ....

G:
Is the manufacturing factory located in Akune City a factory specializing in leather?

Murata:
It is a factory specializing in gloves. We are also making gloves from other manufacturers. However, leather is different from manufacturer to manufacturer, mold is also different. Line is also different. It is a factory that can cut all leather, sew through straps and make gloves until engraving. So it does not give rise to variations in quality.

G:
Because it is a factory in Kyushu, there are many dealers in the Kyushu area.

Murata:
That's right. In addition, it is also great to have been doing sales that sports sports shops in Kyushu in the Asics sports sales era before Wilson. I think that it is not common to go from sales to development and then go to professional charge.

G:
I had such experience, so now I am doing donor alone.

Murata:
That's right. But often it is called "It's hard to be alone," but it's easy. Since I was a professor at the University of Osaka (Osaka Sangyo University), I went to a university after 5 o'clock in the evening and went to a university and practiced the baseball club from 20:20 and that was I was playing bye at 2:30 in the rental video store since I finished. I was doing 4 things with bite, student, baseball, bite. It's now easier because it's now only one.

G:
It is amazing what makes the basis of comparison ....

Murata:
Moreover, it is my favorite thing. I appreciate it. I am grateful to the people around me for having something I like.


◆ Ultimate glove
G:
It is a donor's glove that is unbearable for fans, like being able to use the same as a professional, but it is cheaper compared to major manufacturers as I said earlier. Why can you do it at a lower price?

Murata:
I think that it is because we do not spend promotional expenses. Advertising costs are large. Besides that it costs the cost of providing it to professional and strong schools. Because Donniea is not doing it to sell, you do not need to spend money on promotional expenses.

G:
Even this is profitable, is not it?

Murata:
Yes. However, I have invested in the glove for my profit. This infield glove continued the same model for the seventh year, but in fact it is evolving.

G:
Does it change every year?

Murata:
Yes. For example, there is a white part here. Although this is called "Kirihami", the front wrapped around from the inside, but then the ball might hit (Kirihami) and it could be torn. So I put it inside a little.


In addition to that, you can slightly shift the position of the "finger stall" where you put your thumbs. No one notices, but I am doing that kind of improvement. Even with such a slight improvement we have to change molds. But I want to keep improving this classic and make it the ultimate glove. I would like to make it even more perfect if I have the money to put Donnaire's advertisement. Perhaps, no one notices it (laugh)


G:
Even with a standard model of the same part number, it continues to evolve.

Murata:
For such evolution it is important to listen to the sports store. Sometimes you may notice by looking at professional gloves and you may notice by asking from a sports store that "the user said this". Also, sometimes you will notice thanks to a full inspection. All inspections are also being used for development. There is also a difference in the leather of the material, for example, I notice that the part of the back is getting a bit steady. This is because the leather entering now is soft, if you feel that it is such a tendency, you have to change to the one for pulling the mold more.


G:
Work to inspect all of them is necessary for development as well.

Murata:
Yes. Also, I have been playing baseball since college, now I am playing softball, but it is also for development.

G:
Do you actually use the data to get it?

Murata:
That's right. Softball is the best. First the ball is large, and the distance from the batter is short. Because the ball is big, make a bigger pocket. Also, as the distance is short, it is difficult to cover. As baseball is distant, you can shuffle even if you shuffle. Softball gets safe if you do not throw it so quickly, so it's not deceitful.

G:
I see. Is it possible to use gloves that can be used with softballs even in baseball?

Murata:
That's it. Originally I was selling Louisville Slugger 's softball bat with ASICS sports sale, and Wilson also got Dimarini' s softball bat. I have caught up with two bat makers who are famous for softball bats and thought that I had to figure out what I could sell after all, I joined the softball team. Softball, which was originally for bat research, is now being used in the development of gloves.Wind millI also practiced and practiced to be able to do all the positions including the pitcher. In order to use the pitcher glove, you can not go out to the game unless you can throw it. You can develop all the gloves if you do all the positions.

G:
I see.

Murata:
I also make Yamada's grab with softballs. Using a softball makes the pocket wider. If you extend the pocket, afterwards Yamada is hard and finishes only the part that catches the ball is ok. There are quite a few professional players holding softballs while moving.

G:
Do you squeeze a softball and bind it with a strap? I put two balls in order to attach a mold, but I bind it, is it softball?

Murata:
Oh yeah, it's the same as two balls. The pocket is wide and wide.

G:
What kind of glove is "the ultimate glove" that Mr. Murata who caught in a glance thinks about last time?

Murata:
(I think for a moment) I think that it will not come all the way. On the contrary, it may quit when you get there (lol) I wonder if you can bring parts that you do not notice a little bit closer to perfection.

G:
Words are bad but are you satisfied with yourself?

Murata:
Hahaha. We will invest hundreds of thousands of yen, millions of dollar mold fees there. To a place I do not know even if I see it. It may be self-satisfaction (haha)

G:
Is not it not necessary to do it?

Murata:
You can not close your eyes beyond noticing. However, this is absolutely impossible if it is a salaried worker. If I were a boss of a salaried worker, my men would never allow such a thing (laugh)


G:
Perhaps it is the ultimate glove that you can do whilst pushing selfish.

Murata:
I was blessed with the people around me.

G:
Thank you very much for your busy schedule today.