>'Junwoo → Na Seung-yeop' Next is Jo Se-jin? Futures MVP cheers "I'll follow in the footsteps of good seniors one by one."
Jul 05, 2024
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Sangmu Cho Se-jin (21), the MVP of the Futures All-Star Game, smiled brightly.
Cho Se-jin started as the fourth batter and right fielder in the south of the professional baseball Futures All-Star Game held at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 5th and won the MVP by hitting a three-run home run.
Cho Se-jin, who met after the game, laughed, saying, `It's an honor to make a performance worthy of the festival.'
As for the home run situation "It was a situation where runners were piled up. I was looking for a first pitch fastball, but a breaking ball came, and I was looking for a slider on the second pitch, but a fastball came. It was a little late, but he made a good hit with his strength. Did I get hit from the back??He looked back, saying, "Doesn't the door make you run?"
As for the MVP, he said, `I thought our batters were all good today and the last at-bat (the bottom of the seventh inning) was a ground ball, so I didn't know until the end.'
I can't help but think of Jeon Joon-woo and Na Seung-yeop, who were former MVP of the Futures All-Star Game.
Na Seung-yup was Cho's debut season. Cho Se-jin said "It was hectic because I was in my first year. I think it was very different from now. I'm more mature now than I was then," he said with a smile.
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The prize money is "I will buy delicious food for my colleagues and tie it up with the rest of the military installment savings."," he added.
"You know too well that I'm still not good enough. I want to work hard for the remaining four months to become a more mature and great player and be discharged from the military. I want to live up to the fans' expectations. I can't wait to go out and do well. I'll be more serious day by day, raising all my ability levels further, adjusting the zone and image and timing I drew."
As for Lotte's Park Joon-woo, who won the performance award, "I actually saw it in advance. When I saw him wearing makeup and a wig, I thought he would get it," he said with a smile.
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He struck out in his first at-bat. In the second at-bat, he fired SSG Choi Hyun-suk's fastball with a superior three-run shot with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the third inning with a 2-1 lead.
In the sixth inning, he appeared as a leadoff hitter and drew a walk, and in the following situation, he homered on NC Kim Se-hoon's sacrifice fly and scored his second run of the day. He hit well in the seventh inning, but was blocked by the good defense of northern third baseman Doosan Im Jong-sung.
The game was a 9-5 victory for the South, which had 11 hits.
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He joined Sangmu last year and is in his second year in the Futures League. I will be discharged from the military on November 7 this year. He has a batting average of 254 (49 hits in 193 at-bats) and seven homers and 35 RBIs in 57 games this season (on-base plus slugging) of 0.784.
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