SSG Son Si-heon, 2nd-tier coach → Lee Dong-young, 1st-tier defensive coach, returns to head coach Song Shin-young

Oct 24, 2024

손시헌 코치. Photo =SSG Landers

SSG Landers changed the composition of the coaching staff.

SSG officially announced on the 24th that it will recruit Kyung Heon-ho, a pitching coach. Coach Kyung Heon-ho served as a player and coach for the LG Twins. From 2013 to 2024, he served as a pitching coach for LG's 1st and 2nd teams and the remaining teams, fostering pitchers for a long time. The SSG club praised Coach Kyung Heon-ho's achievements and experience as a pitching coach for 12 years and expects him to lead the team's pitching staff well in the future" he announced. Coach Kyung Heon-ho, who left LG to join SSG, will prepare for the 2025 season as the main pitching coach of the first team. He joined the team's finishing training from the 24th.

경헌호 코치. Photo =SSG Landers

(from left) Coach Lee Myung-ki, Coach Serizawa, and Coach Lee Young-wook. Photo =SSG Landers

SSG officially announced on the 15th that it conveyed its intention not to renew the contract next season to batting coach Kim Jong-hoon, pitching coach Kim I-seul, Yang Ji-hoon, and Kim Dong-ho, defensive coach Lee Dae-soo, running coach Lim Jae-hyun, conditioning coach Yoon In-deuk, and stress coach Koo Bon-hak.

At the same time, it said it has recruited former Doosan Bears battery coach Yoo Ji-ja, former team power analyst Lee Young-wook and former Hanwha Eagles player Lee Myung-ki as new coaches. Coach Serizawa, who is Japanese, is a veteran battery coach with 13 years of experience in the KBO League alone. In the past, he also served as a battery coach for four years at SSG. Lee Young-wook and Lee Myung-ki, former players, will take on new positions at SSG as new coaches. These three coaches have already joined the team's final training on the 16th, and their positions have not yet been finalized.

손시헌 코치. Photo =SSG Landers

At the same time, a full-fledged change began in the composition of the first and second-tier coaching staff. The most notable point is Son Si-heon, the second-tier coach's move to the first-tier defensive coach. After completing the 2023 season a year ago, SSG suddenly appointed Son Si-heon, the second-tier coach. Son Si-heon, who played for the Doosan Bears and the NC Dinos and coached at NC after retiring from active duty, will be in charge of fostering players at SSG in earnest. However, he will replace the second-tier coach again after a year. Son Si-heon, the second-tier coach, will move to the first-tier defensive coach and take charge of the defense of Lee Soo-yong and the first-tier players.

A match between SSG and Kiwoom at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 7th, and SSG coach Song Sung-young is replacing Anderson at the bottom of the 6th inning. Gocheok = Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2024.08.07/

Coach Song Sung-young, who previously served as the main pitching coach for the first team, will return to the head coach for the first team. It is a change of position twice in a year. At the time of Lee Sung-yong's appointment, former Kiwoom Heroes pitching coach Song Sung-young, who has a deep relationship, was appointed as the head coach. At the time of the coaching staff reorganization during the season, head coach Song Sung-young has been the main pitching coach of the first team as Bae Young-soo went down to the second team. He changed his position to the head coach again. Coach Cho Won-woo, who has been the head coach, will be determined later.

In addition, coach Serizawa will be in charge of the first-team battery coach, following head coach Song Sung-young, pitching coach Kyung Heon-ho, and defensive coach Son Si-heon. bullpen coach Lee Seung-ho, hitting coach Kang Byung-sik and Oh Jun-hyuk, and operation running coach Cho Dong-hwa and Yoon Jae-guk will be maintained next season without changing their positions.

Meanwhile, the formation of the second-tier coaching staff has not yet been completed. Due to the transfer of coach Son Si-heon, the position of the second-tier coach is currently vacant. "We are currently reviewing various candidates," the SSG club said. The positions of other coaches who have not been terminated will also be finalized later.

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SSG Son Si-heon, 2nd-tier coach → Lee Dong-young, 1st-tier defensive coach, returns to head coach Song Shin-young

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