Elin → Korea's most wins → PS ace. It's already 75 wins in its 15th year. Now we're going on the path of legend.
Dec 30, 2024
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Now that his own pitching style has entered its heyday, he has established himself as a starter, and his former seniors have begun to show their performance.
Lim Chan-kyu won 14 games last year, the most domestic pitchers in the KBO League. Since then, Lim Chan-kyu, who signed a four-year contract with LG through the FA, has won 10-6 with a 3.83 ERA this year, his first year as an FA. It was a pity that he couldn't throw for about 20 days in June due to injury. Failed the regulation innings with 134 innings. Still, he played a strong role as an ace with 5-3 losses and an ERA of 3.55 in the second half, became a winning pitcher in all three appearances, including two semi-playoffs and one playoff win in the postseason, and pitched an amazing 1.08 ERA with only three runs (two earned runs) in 16 ⅔ innings. What has been sluggish in the postseason has been transformed into a strong image at once.
Although it is a fastball in the early 140km range, Lim Chan-kyu's pitching, which tricks batters with 120km changeups and 110km curves from similar places, is working. In particular, the curve delays the speed to the 90km range, increasing the speed difference with the fastball to 50km, giving the batter the effect of making the fastball appear faster.
Lim Chan-kyu, who won double-digit wins for two consecutive years this year following last year, will now try to win double-digit wins for three consecutive years next season. Only six of LG's domestic pitchers recorded it. Ha Ki-ryong first recorded it from the first year of MBC's Blue Dragon to 1984, and Jeong Sam-heum won 12, 14, 15, and 15 from 1991 to 1994, making him the only LG domestic pitcher to win double-digit wins for four consecutive years.
Since then, Kim Yong-soo (1996 ￣ 1998), Bong Jung-geun (2008 ￣ 2010), and Woo Kyu-min (2013 ￣ 2015) have recorded double-digit wins for three consecutive years, and recently Cha Woo-chan recorded from 2017 to 2019.
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Lim Chan-kyu, who joined the team in 2011 and will be in his 15th year next year, has also won 75 games so far this year. Now is the time when legends' career victories can be seen.
The most wins in LG Legends are Kim Yong-soo, who has 126 wins. Jeong Sam-heum is followed by 106 wins. These are the only two pitchers from LG who have won more than 100 games. And Kim Tae-won, who joined MBC in 1986 and won 85 games at LG until he retired in 1998, is third.
If Lim Chan-kyu wins a double-digit victory next season, he can surpass Kim Tae-won.
Lim Chan-kyu, who has steadily developed himself, finally led the team in the postseason as he blossomed into his own pitching and was proudly given the title of LG's domestic ace.
Next season, LG has a goal of recapturing the championship. Lim Chan-kyu will leave for the Arizona spring camp next season for about a week first to prepare. Because I know it's an important season for both him and the team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
