One-hour meeting with the general manager, Lim Ki-young's sincerity that he wants to stay at KIA, reward player → 1.5 billion FA success drama
Dec 22, 2024
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Sidearm pitcher Lim Ki-young (31) thought only of the KIA Tigers when he appeared in the FA market. Although he has been agonizing until just before applying for the FA due to his poor performance this season, FA rights are very valuable and valuable to players. Lim Ki-young made up his mind by applying for the FA and visited KIA General Manager Shim Jae-hak for an hour of interviews. In fact, it was a place to appeal, saying, `Please hold me tight.'
Lim Ki-young thought a lot about whether to apply with the agent or not before applying for the FA. Even the day before applying for FA, I had a meeting with the general manager for about an hour. At the meeting, I said a lot strongly that I wanted to stay on this team. The general manager also said 'I'll catch it somehow', and he actually paid a lot of attention to it.'I looked back on the past month.
Lim Ki-young completed his contract with KIA on the 21st for a total of 1.5 billion won, including a three-year contract period, a down payment of 300 million won, an annual salary of 900 million won and an option of 300 million won. At first, it took some time to reach an agreement due to disagreements with the club on the amount, but because he had the number one priority in mind, he was able to conclude the contract without overcoming the year.
Lim Ki-young said in a phone call with Sports Chosun on the 22nd, `It's a relief that the club signed the contract quickly so that it wouldn't be too late. I think I made a good contract because the club also cared a lot. I just wanted to sign a contract quickly. It's true that I thought if I had done better like last year, the result would have been better, but it's just a shame. He was satisfied that he concluded his first FA contract well.
The reason why he couldn't leave KIA is simple. This is because Lim Ki-young, a player in KIA, blooms. Lim Ki-young graduated from Gyeongbuk High School and joined the Hanwha Eagles as the 18th overall pick in the second round of the rookie draft in 2012, and in December 2013, he first wore the KIA uniform as an FA transfer compensation player for Song Eun-beom (currently Samsung Lions). Regardless of the starter and bullpen, he played wherever the team was needed, and succeeded in signing an FA contract, a measure of success for professional players. The overall KBO league performance is 11 seasons, 285 games, 51 wins and 59 losses, 21 holds, 4 saves, 867 innings, and a 4.80 ERA.
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Therefore, there was a lot of regret that he failed to contribute to KIA's overall victory this year. Lim Ki-young had everything twisted because his left side's internal oblique muscles were finely damaged at the start of the season. Since it's a preliminary FA season and the team is ranked first, what I wanted to add quickly became rather poisonous and held back. Lim Ki-young had only 37 games, 6 wins and 2 losses, 2 holds, 45 ⅔ innings and an ERA of 6.31. In the end, the pain of being eliminated from the Korean Series entry was inevitable, and the goal for the next season was to naturally set "contribute to winning for the second consecutive year".
Lim Ki-young tries to prepare more thoroughly this winter to show better performance to KIA fans than this year. He said "We've been showing so bad this season that we have to show the same side of last year next year. Also, since we signed an FA contract, our biggest goal is to show it accordingly.
I continued my commitment to be a good husband and father to my family. Lim Ki-young said "My wife had a hard time next to me, but she must have had a hard time alone even if she didn't show it. I'm grateful for that, and I think I should show you that in the baseball field next year so that I can be a good husband and father," he said, smiling.
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