"It's natural to be criticized when you're sluggish. But 'I'm going to hit a home run' is..." September rebound. 6 billion FA's Black Heart
Sep 25, 2024
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LG Twins' Park Hae-min is rebounding in September. In September alone, he has a batting average of 360 (18 hits in 50 at-bats) with two homers, six RBIs and 12 runs scored in 17 games.
Park Hae-min is particularly difficult this season. Park Hae-min, who has hit .300 only once but has consistently hit .28 or more, has been sluggish this season.
As of the 24th, he has a batting average of only 263. His lowest batting average season in a season was 2339 (121 hits in 581 at-bats) in 2019. It would be better than then, but it was clear that it was lower than expected. Park Hae-min, who was sluggish at the beginning or middle of the season and eventually returned to his batting average, failed to do so this year.
He got off to a good start with a batting average of 290 until April, but has been sluggish since then, falling further in the summer to 217 in July and 213 in August.
As he is sluggish, he has found various ways, and recently, he has improved his lower body stability by expanding his batting stance.
When it was sluggish, it could also help Park Hae-min to take a break and have time to adjust, but he could not take it out recklessly due to the importance of defense. Park Hae-min, who played in all 141 games, started 126 of them.
When I see him catch a hit ball in a crisis situation, I can't help but burst into exclamation and applause. However, fans were also frustrated when they came in weakly from the chance.
Park Hae-min appeared to acknowledge the criticism from his fans. "As a professional baseball player, I think I should be criticized and in a position to be criticized if I have a bad performance," Park Hae-min said. "I think it's a natural part to be criticized if I have a bad performance."
Park Hae-min was also well aware of the frustration of fans. In fact, it's because you're also a frustrating part.
Park Hae-min said "In fact, hitting doesn't work out as intended. I'm going to hit a home run because a fly ball comes out. I think there will be a lot of these curses. I'm not a batter who can hit 20 or 30 home runs just because I want to hit a home run, so I think I'm a little frustrated with myself in that regard"I want to go on a line drive, too…. If I get hit and fly, (the fans) will be frustrated."
But there was something I wanted the fans to know.
Park Hae-min said "You can say, "I keep playing games, so I'm hitting whatever I want without any sense of crisis, but that's not true.' "I also want to hit a strong batting line drive than anyone else, and I want to hit a single and steal a base." That's my baseball"
Then "I think such a flyball comes out because there is a mechanistic problem. Who wants to kill by hitting a fly ball on purpose, and who wants to strike out. But from the perspective of the viewers, there are a lot of fly balls when they get hit, so I think you can say that"Park Hae-min thinks it's up to the player to develop tomorrow, next week, and next season. We need to work it out."
indyk@sportschosun.com
