4th Grade Rejected and Joined the Active Service → Meet Ki-yeon at Sangmu.. I asked WONJUN of KIA a lot

Jan 07, 2025

2024 A meeting of bears was held at Jamsil Stadium on the 24th. Doosan's Choo Jae-hyun is greeting. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.11.24/

Doosan Bears outfielder Choo Jae-hyun revealed a story he met at the Sangmu Baseball Team. He said he felt a lot while living in Sangmu for a year and a half, and in particular, he had a lot of conversations with Choi Won-joon of the KIA Tigers.

Choo Jae-hyun was accepted to Sangmu in the winter of 2022 when he was at Lotte. He was discharged from the military after spending time in the Futures League from the 2023 season to the middle of the 2024 season. He had elbow surgery and was classified as level 4 of a physical examination. He was able to replace his mandatory military service as a social service worker, but he chose active duty. I wanted an environment where I could play baseball consistently even if I was in the military. Chu Jae-hyun "A year and a half is long. Even if you are active, you can play baseball if you go to Sangmu. Any player would have done that.'

Chu Jae-hyun looked back on the fact that he was glad to go to Sangmu. Chu Jae-hyun was in the second division, but I really felt a lot of things in my own way. In particular, I learned a lot about hitting."

Choo Jae-hyun was called a genius hitter during his time at Shinil High School. It was evaluated that sophisticated hitting and pioneering were of high quality. But when I came to the professional program, I exposed my ups and downs. It was traded from Kiwoom to Lotte and from Lotte to Doosan. Although it has not established itself in the first team, it means that many teams have high potential.

Chu Jae-hyun simply relied heavily on 'gam'. I realized that it was important to establish an accurate and constant approach. Choo Jae-hyun said, `I have to set my reference point not only for form and training methods but also for directionality. Even if your condition is poor, if you keep your direction well, the average will come out. I was taught to maintain physical strength and make such a routine well.'

He confessed that he asked Choi Won-jun a lot. Choi Won-jun played for Sangmu from the 2022 to the middle of the 2023 season. Chu Jae-hyun asked Won-jun a lot about that part. He taught me so well. He talked a lot"I looked back.

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2024 A meeting of bears was held at Jamsil Stadium on the 24th. Doosan's Choo Jae-hyun, Kim Min-seok and Choi Woo-in are greeting each other. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.11.24/

Choo Jae-hyun has already started batting training. To be precise, he didn't stop batting training even in the offseason. Usually, players go on vacation for a certain period of time at the end of the season and start basic physical training based on weight training from mid-December. Technical training often resumes in earnest around spring camp. Choo Jae-hyun is spending the winter with a high-intensity schedule from weight training to batting training.

He said, "I'm trying not to forget the feeling I learned during the closing camp." Chu Jae-hyun said, `I want to make the training I did in the closing camp completely mine. My body leaned a lot when I hit. Now, I can't go out of my body and I'm fixing my head and modifying it to hit in place." Then "I think my strength is my ability to guess rather than my foresight." I'll prepare for a more accurate strike by increasing the probability," he said emphatically.

In Doosan's outfield, center fielder Jung Soo-bin and foreign hitter Jake Cave are expected to go to one spot each. One seat left is a competition. Attention is focusing on whether Choo Jae-hyun, who will wear his third professional uniform with his second trade, can burst his potential.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.