Tomorrow's announcement! LG's Choi Won-tae reward player → Will a nuclear bomb-class transfer that will shake the baseball game
Dec 12, 2024
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Earlier on the 6th, Samsung announced that it had signed an FA contract with Choi Won-tae for a total of 7 billion won for four years. Choi Won-tae's main team, LG, can name a reward player from Samsung.
Choi Won-tae was a Grade A FA. Under the KBO rules, LG can receive one compensation player other than Samsung's 20 protected players and Choi Won-tae's 200% annual salary from the previous year. It is only possible to choose 300% of annual salary instead of compensation players, but there is virtually no possibility that LG will only take money because Samsung has many good resources.
Samsung's '20 protective players' drew a lot of attention. As speculation has been raised that KBO legends Oh Seung-hwan and Park Byung-ho may be released, the exciting imagination of a nuclear bomb-class move has stimulated dopamine among baseball fans.
As the prediction was expanded and reproduced, Samsung started to evolve itself. There was an unprecedented case of revealing one of the protected players in advance, saying, `Oh Seung-hwan ties up.'
However, this explanation rather became a kind of oil fire. The real names of the players who could be in the 20-man cut line were mentioned one by one, while the question of 'If it's not Oh Seung-hwan, who would it be?' was not resolved.
Among them, Park Byung-ho is the one with the largest weight class.
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In particular, if Park Byung-ho, a right-handed slugger who can hit 'one shot' at any time, LG may also be deeply concerned. Even Park Byung-ho was a promising player that he cherished at LG. It is a star player with a great story.
Park joined LG in 2005 as the first choice. LG failed to burst its potential in the end. In 2011, he transferred to the Nexen Heroes (currently Kiwoom) through a historic trade.
Park Byung-ho became the home run king for the fourth consecutive year since 2012. After entering the Major League, he returned to Kiwoom and became the home run king again in 2019. In his first year after moving to KT in 2022, he won another home run king. Park Byung-ho, who was traded to Samsung in the middle of the 2024 season, showed off his strong performance by hitting 23 home runs.
Baseball is paying keen attention to what decision LG will make.
dhhan@sportschosun.com
