If you are a kid playing baseball and attend an instructional clinic at which a professional player teaches his elaborate techniques, you naturally become interested in absorbing those.

News photoMichihiro Ogasawara of the Yomiuri Giants watches one of his three home runs against Orix leave the yard on Monday night at Tokyo Dome. KYODO PHOTO

If it is Yomiuri Giants third baseman and slugger, Michihiro Ogasawara, you are lucky to see one of the top stars in the Japanese pro game, but he is the least ideal player to ask about skills.