The reason why I didn't catch Choi Wontae. Because there's a hit movie. The second best left-handed ace in the country's ERA. With that desperate heart, the advance team is leaving again.
Dec 30, 2024
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Son Joo-young, the LG Twins' best 'hit song' of this season, will start the Arizona spring camp next season as well.
Son Joo-young had left for Arizona as an starter again this year. On January 20, 10 days before the start of the camp, six pitchers, including Son Joo-young, Jung Woo-young, Lee Ji-gang, Kim Yoon-sik, Lee Sang-young and Kang Hyo-jong, trained first in Arizona. All six of them had reasons to do well this season, and they made up their minds, but the results were different.
Son Joo-young, who even had elbow surgery after serving in the military, went to training with a feeling of being on the edge of a cliff. At the age of 26, Son Joo-young, who was the oldest of the six starters, was competing with Kim Yun-sik for the fifth starter. Son Joo-young left for Arizona and said, "(Kim) Yoon-sik is ahead of me, but I also have accumulated years of experience. I've been to the army and I'm not sick anywhere. It's time to do well. I'll definitely go into the rotation"is determined.
The desperation worked. Son Joo-young, who faithfully played an exhibition game with the spring camp, was selected as the fifth starter and entered the regular league, drawing a reversal that no one expected.
On March 28, his first appearance, he became a winning pitcher with six scoreless innings against Jamsil Samsung, and continued his scoreless streak until two games later. He continued to rotate and gained experience as a starter by taking charge of around five innings. The more the game went on, the better. He also pitched seven innings well as his pitching ability improved.
He pitched in 28 games with a 9-10 record with a 3.79 ERA. On September 26, his last appearance, he finished his first full-time starting season by throwing in the middle without trying to win 10 games against Kiwoom in Jamsil and playing only one inning to fill the regular innings.
He pitched 144 ⅔ innings, ranking eighth overall in ERA and second in Korea after Samsung's Won Tae-in (3.66).
He could have tried to win 10 games, but he already threw a lot of innings in his first full-time season and had to throw in the postseason, so he didn't have any personal greed.
And he showed his true value in the postseason without regret. He took the mound as the second pitcher in Game 3 of the semi-playoff against KT Wiz and became the winning pitcher with two hits and no runs in five ⅓, and also won Game 5 with two perfect innings. Unfortunately, in Game 4 of the playoffs against the Samsung Lions, he was voluntarily withdrawn due to elbow pain and failed to throw until the end, and failed to play in the Premier 12. Still, it's not a big injury, so there's no problem in preparing for next season.
Choi Won-tae leaves for the Samsung Lions and has to start as the fourth starter next year, not the fifth starter. LG did not bother to catch Choi Won-tae because of Son Joo-young's growth.
In order to continue her success this year, Son Joo-young will go to Arizona first as a starting member next year. This year's success is not a coincidence, but a real skill.
Will Son Joo-young, who was the only player in the entry of the Korean Series last year who failed to get on the ground, be able to throw on the stage of the Korean Series next year. If Son Joo-young throws well, the dream gets closer.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
