"Isn't that too expensive?" The other teams were also surprised. Why Hanwha was at the center of the soaring market price.
Nov 08, 2024
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A club official said "We are not considering recruiting Um Sang-baek, but the amount seems to be more than expected. At first, it was said that it would be around 5 to 6 billion won, and I thought that the amount was high, but now I hear more than 7 billion won"I couldn't hide my surprise.
An official from club B also "I need a starting pitcher, so of course I'm interested, but it's too expensive. We can't disclose the amount we think, but honestly, I don't think we can ever match the amount that's being talked about right now."
And the actual amount was revealed. Hanwha Eagles officially announced the news of the contract with Um Sang-baek on the 8th, and the terms of the contract are up to 7.8 billion won for four years. The down payment received in a lump sum is 3.4 billion won, the total annual salary is 3.25 billion won, and the incentive is 1.15 billion won.
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Furthermore, Hanwha even announced the recruitment of shortstop Shim Woo-joon as FA on the 7th, a day before. Shim Woo-joon's contract terms are up to 5 billion won for four years (4.2 billion won guaranteed and 800 million won incentive). The total amount spent on the two players in two days alone amounts to 12.8 billion won.
Coincidentally, both players from KT Wiz. In fact, it is not that KT, the original team, was also not willing to catch it. They've grown together since their debut, and they really wanted to catch them because they had a good performance this year. The more good the history, the better.
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There is also an atmosphere of dissatisfaction among other clubs. This is because the market price itself has soared too much. Shim Woo-joon and Um Sang-baek are of course the main players in the first division that other teams can covet. However, he was not evaluated as an `S-class' player. However, it is widely believed that if the ransom is this high, not only the FA market but also the standard ransom of players who will be eligible for FA next year will increase significantly.
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A year ago, he signed Chae Eun-sung to a contract worth 9 billion won, and Lee Tae-yang and Jang Si-hwan. He has continued to invest, and even Ryu Hyun-jin returned, but he failed to advance to the postseason this year.
Until now, Hanwha has a relative disadvantage as a local team compared to the metropolitan area team. On top of that, it is true that other team star players have been shrinking due to an atmosphere in which they are reluctant to transfer due to the lack of recent team performance. Some complained that they had no choice but to invest more because they would not move to Hanwha if they did not pay even a few billion won more.
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There are complaints from other clubs, but this is nothing short of a victory for clubs. As some agencies recently monopolized the majority of FA players, clubs complain that `the market price has already been formed, not the appropriate price according to demand, and the player's ransom has risen through auction, but in the end, the clubs cannot achieve complete unity. At this point, it is virtually impossible to come up with fundamental measures against the soaring ransom of players.
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