"Park Hae-min can rest next year." Agent No. 118 → No. 38 for "Park Hae-min's successor" that Yeolryang confidently brought up. Will a second Shin Minjae be born
Nov 24, 2024
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What was disappointing about the LG Twins this season was that they were highly dependent on the starting lineup. LG is a team with nine main players, and in order for them to perform well, bench members had to be able to give their main players a break. LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop also thought that the main players should rest enough to produce good results.
However, as the hitting of bench members, who supported the main players this season, did not come up as expected, the dependence on the main players became higher as a result.
Some players seemed to need a break due to poor performance, but they could not make bench members due to the team fighting for the ranking. Coach Yeom said, `I thought that if the seniors who think the opponent is a little tricky go out anyway, they can do a little damage to the opponentMy theory is that fostering is important, but fostering is only possible when you have good grades. The first is grades, followed by nurture. We need to be together."
This is a case where Park Hae-min couldn't rest. Park Hae-min hit only 263 (127 hits in 482 at-bats) this year, the lowest batting performance since 239 in 2019. However, he played in all 144 games. Of these, only 16 were substituted and 128 were started. Park Hae-min's batting was not good, but it was true that there was no player to replace him because the defender's value as a center fielder was high. Park Hae-min could have recovered his hit if he had time to rest and readjust his hit, but he fell into a severe slump in July and August and improved after September.
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Choi Won-young, who graduated from Busan High School and joined LG in the 57th place in the second round of the second round in 2022, caught the eye of coach Yeom in this year's exhibition game. Coach Yeom decided to give him a chance to play with his life and death on the first-team stage. Choi Won-young, who was a nurturing player at the time, became an official player in May. Choi Won-young, who mainly played as a pinch runner and played outfielder, hit .27 (10 hits in 41 at-bats) with one homer, five RBIs and six steals in 57 games.
He joined the semi-playoff against KT Wiz as a pinch-runner-defensive agent, but failed to play, and unfortunately was excluded from the entry in the playoff against the Samsung Lions, including Kim Bum-seok to strengthen the hit.
Choi Won-young later went to Ulsan Polyg, and after it was over, he returned to Icheon and sweated seven hours a day in the closing camp of the batting.
Coach Yeom said, "Choi Won-young's hitting became very good." I invested in Won-young to give time for (Park) Hae-min to rest this season, but the hit was not so good that it didn't work out. But I've gotten pretty good in this closing camp." Coach Yeom saw Choi Won-young's defensive ability as a player who can grow as much as Park Hae-min. He also has the ability to steal bases as if he were a pinch runner, so if he supports the hit, he is a prospect who can challenge to become a starting player in the outfield in the future.
If Choi Won-young shows growth in hitting next season as expected, he can reduce his dependence on Park Hae-min and help Park Hae-min increase his hitting. In the case of Shin Min-jae last year, he started as a pinch runner at the beginning of the season, but became the main player at second base and played in the Premier 12 twice this year as a national team. Choi Won-young also started as a substitute for Park Hae-min
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