With his top-notch pitch selection and adaptability to multiple positions, Kondo Kensuke, though not highly ranked in the draft, quickly caught the eye of Kuriyama Hideki after a few years of struggle in Nippon Professional Baseball's minor league, and was promoted to the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' first team. This season, he secured his position as the main Left Fielder with a batting average over .300 and an incredibly difficult-to-strike out ability.
According to SoftBank's data on Kondo Kensuke's hitting hot spot map, he has a batting average of over .400 in the key zones of low inside, low outside, and high outside pitches, making him a rather troublesome opponent for pitchers;
The only weakness in his strike zone coverage is the high middle area, which falls in the number 2 grid of the nine-square grid—with an overall batting average of .328, Kondo Kensuke's average for high pitches in this spot is only .184.
