Lotte, Doosan, and KT definitely need shortstop, but why isn't there even mentioning Ha Joo-seok's sat
Dec 24, 2024
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It's Christmas. It means that the sun will soon change. The FA market is also in the final stages. But there are players who have yet to find a new team, so it's just a pity.
The representative player is shortstop Ha Joo-seok. After playing as Hanwha Eagles' flagship and main shortstop, he has suffered ups and downs in recent years for one reason or another, showing a downward trend in his career.
There must be many reasons why it is not popular in the market at all. As mentioned above, his skills have deteriorated in recent years, and he has not taken many opportunities. Problems such as work consciousness and attitude were also exposed. On top of that, it came to the market in a situation where it would not be strange to choose to repeat the FA, and for now, Hanwha, the original fastball team, may have been embedded with hate. Hanwha embarrassed Ha Joo-seok by bringing in shortstop Shim Woo-joon of 5 billion won as soon as the FA market opened.
It is grade B here. You have to give and take a reward player. To put it bluntly, no club can easily access Ha if they think they might lose a better reward player after paying a lot of money to Ha.
Still, he's a shortstop. It is never easy to have a shortstop who can play stable defense in the first team. You need to have basic qualities and experience. All clubs have a hard time raising first-team shortstop. The LG Twins spent more than 10 years creating a flagship shortstop named Oh Ji-hwan.
Ha Joo-seok's defense splendor falls, but he is a style that can offset the disappointment with hitting. In other words, if a team needs a shortstop, it is still a resource that can be 'fascinated'. Currently, Lotte Giants and Doosan Bears are the teams that do not have a solid starting shortstop in the league. KT Wiz also has Kim Sang-soo, but they need a shortstop to fill Shim Woo-joon's gap.
There may be demand, but it is quiet, and in the end, the compensation player problem can be a fatal blow. So there's also talk of sign and trade, but it doesn't seem like it's on fire. In order for a sign-and-trade to take place, Hanwha must make a trade that is almost free of charge to some extent, but it is unclear whether such a deal will become a reality.
And the most important thing is Mr. Ha himself. Baseball skills are also skills, but no team has been convinced that any team will be able to fully integrate into a team member. I think the first thing to do is to solve this problem if you want to continue playing baseball. It can be more important than factors such as annual salary and compensation.
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