<h2>What is Manager Abe&#8217;s strange plan?</h2>
<figure id="attachment_392465" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-392465" style="width: 1649px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="fa655fb3"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/09/3b46f2338abbbccc156fb724c8426f98.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-392465" class="wp-caption-text"> The &#8220;winning instinct&#8221; that made him the captain and regular catcher for so long during his active career is still alive and well</figcaption></figure>
<p> The Giants, led by manager Shinnosuke Abe (45), are closing in on their first championship in four years.</p>
<p> The Giants, led by manager Shinnosuke Abe (45), are on the verge of winning their first championship in four years. An alumnus of the team who has coaching experience said.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> This year, however, he kept his Buddha-like face and maintained a mild-mannered character, switching to a policy of letting the young players play baseball without restraint. Under Tatsunori Hara&#8217;s (66) predecessor, there were many players who played with a lot of trepidation, always looking at the coach&#8217;s face, so he must have looked the other way on that.</span></p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> He focused on maintaining a good balance as the man in charge of the field while letting the coaches take charge to a certain extent. &#8220;</span><span class="strongInContent"> He was also concerned about his relationship with the media in order to show that the Giants had changed. I&#8217;ve been even more concerned about our relationships with the press in order to clear up any allegations of power harassment.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> However, &#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;After the 2-8 loss to Chunichi on August 23.</span><span class="strongInContent"> After the 2-8 loss to Chunichi on August 23. Perhaps unable to hide his frustration at the disappointment, Abe refused to give a post-game press conference. About two weeks later, on September 8, after the 0-8 loss to DeNA, Abe refused to hold a press conference. The G staff, who had built a relatively good relationship with Abe up to that point, were in a panic, wondering what had happened. They were in a state of panic.</span></p>
<p> Why did Abe refuse to hold a press conference? The unusual incident occurred at the end of August, with less than 30 games remaining in the season.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent">One day before a game, Abe gathered the leadership together and declared, &#8220;From now on, I will make all the decisions on how to lead the team and how to use the pitchers. Since then, he has been making more and more decisions on his own regarding the use of players and pitching. He probably could not hide his frustration at not being able to keep up with Hiroshima and Hanshin, even though they had the capability to take over the top spot.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> On the other hand, he continued to be mild-mannered toward the players. Of course, from the outside, there were scenes that made one think, &#8220;What the heck! but it was cute compared to his days as a second army manager. On the other hand, reprimands are also an important tool to tighten up the team in critical situations. Manager Abe, who himself blocked it in order to break away from Hara Baseball, is probably sending an indirect message to his players by &#8220;refusing to hold a press conference in anger. In fact, when one player learned of Abe&#8217;s refusal to hold a press conference on August 8, he said, &#8220;The manager got angry &#8230;&#8230;&#8221; and trembled.</span></p>
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<h2> Between the &#8220;de-baseballing of Hara baseball&#8221; and &#8230;&#8230;</h2>
<p> Perhaps this &#8220;rough trick&#8221; paid off, as the team won all of its games immediately after the &#8220;refusal&#8221; to give interviews, including the third game on September 18 against DeNA. It is a fact that the &#8220;rough handling&#8221; of the situation was a major catalyst in the race for the championship.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The team&#8217;s refusal to give interviews was a major catalyst for the team to win the championship, and it was quite effective as a statement of intent to tighten up the entire team without putting unnecessary pressure directly on individual players. Players nowadays tend to shrink away if they are scolded directly. &#8230;&#8230; However, &#8220;refusing to hold a press conference&#8221; is a double-edged sword. If it is used too often, the effect will decrease and the relationship with the media will deteriorate. It is necessary to use it at the most opportune time. Since things are going well at the moment, I hope that they will continue to run toward the championship.</span></p>
<p> Since the beginning of September, Abe&#8217;s in-game managerial decisions have been getting the job done. I wonder if his off-the-field &#8220;strange&#8221; strategy will prove to be a good thing or a bad thing. &#8230;&#8230;</p>
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 The Giants, led by manager Shinnosuke Abe (45), finished the Tennozan (the heavenly mountain) game against the Hanshin Tigers at Koshien with a win and a loss, and are just a win away from winning the championship for the first time in four years. Behind the victory was the "strange plan" that Abe has often demonstrated.

The real aim of the “angry refusal of the press conference,” a bizarre measure played by Giants manager Abe, according to an insider.

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