'I can't believe you've already made up your mind...' Samsung's 7 billion FA compensation list was delivered to LG a day earlier. Friday's announcement of the new LG man
Dec 10, 2024
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Samsung, which recruited FA Choi Won-tae, handed over the compensation list to the LG Twins a day earlier on the 10th. LG had three days to decide.
Samsung signed a four-year contract with Choi Won-tae on the 6th for a total of 7 billion won. The conditions are 2.4 billion won in down payment, 3.4 billion won in total annual salary, and 1.2 billion won in incentives for four years.
At the same time, Samsung gave up a reward player to LG, its original club. Choi Won-tae is A-class, so there are only 20 protected players, so power leakage is inevitable.
Although the contract was announced on the 6th, the compensation process will begin after the KBO announcement. As KBO made the announcement on the 8th, Samsung was given time to select 20 protective players for three days. Initially, the last day Samsung had to deliver the list of compensation players to LG was on the 11th.
There was a lot going on. In particular, there was a heated debate among fans over whether legend Oh Seung-hwan would be a protected player. Although Oh Seung-hwan made 27 saves, he fell sharply in the second half of the year, and eventually was eliminated from the postseason entry, making the scenario that Oh Seung-hwan could be excluded from the protected player and LG could take him sound plausible to fans. However, as Samsung unusually announced that it would include Oh Seung-hwan as a protected player, talks about Oh Seung-hwan faded.
However, as fans' opinions on various players have emerged since then, questions about who will go from Samsung to LG are growing. There are so few 20, and Samsung has been raising a lot of prospects, and the addition of veterans has increased the likelihood that players with names will be excluded from the protected players.
However, it was different from the expectation that it would be difficult to draw 20 players because there were many players who wanted to play together. Samsung handed over the list of compensation players to LG a day earlier. LG, which received the list of compensation players, also responded that it was a bit unexpected.
It's time for LG. In particular, since LG, which aims to regain the championship next season, gave up a stable starting pitcher named Choi Won-tae, who has 78 wins in his career and nine wins this season, there is a great atmosphere that he should select a player who helps him win as a reward player.
The winning team KIA Tigers sent FA Jang Hyun-sik to LG and received the reward player Kang Hyo-jong. He joined Sangmu on the 2nd and cannot play in the first team next season, but he chose it because he is the best among the players on the compensation list. Currently, KIA, which has strong power, can invest in the future rather than immediately, but LG is not.
LG, which has been running for the championship, has had a lot of outflows of prospects, and as a result, the difference in skills between the main and non-mainstream games this season has been noticeable as the growth of the remaining prospects has been slow. In order to win next season, the non-mainstream players have to improve their skills. LG plans to immediately draw up the sense of strength, not the future resources of the compensation players it will bring from Samsung.
LG has to announce the compensation player by the afternoon of the 13th. Currently, general manager Cha Myung-seok is in the U.S. to attend the Major League Winter Meeting, so he has to select a player while communicating over the phone.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
