TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Baseball is a sport of repetition. You can easily lose your knack for the game if you don't swing the bat or throw the ball for a while.

That's not the case for Tomoya Satozaki.

Satozaki was back on the Chiba Lotte Marines top-team roster right before the postseason, after two months on the farm team due to a back injury.