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| Moon Dong-hwan during his Lotte days. Sports Chosun DB |
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| Moon Dong-hwan immediately after joining Lotte in 1997. Sports Chosun DB |
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| Moon Dong-hwan, who burned the last flame of the 2006 Korean Series. Sports Chosun DB |
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It's been 22 years since I left Lotte Giants. 'True' The Busan Man is back.
Lotte Giants announced on the 17th that they will join Kim Tae-hyung's second year in the 2025 season.
The most notable point is that manager Cho Won-woo, who led Lotte's last fall baseball in 2017, returned as the head coach. Coach Kim Min-jae, who took a break due to health problems last year, also returned as a bench coach.
In the case of the second division, coach Kim Sang-jin, who fostered promising players by working with manager Kim Tae-hyung during Doosan, joined the team, and coach Moon Dong-hwan was newly appointed as a bullpen coach to be with.
Veteran coach Kim Kwang-soo, who served as a bench coach last year, moved to the head of the remaining force, while coach Kang Sung-woo and coach Lim Kyung-wan moved to the remaining force. Yoo Min-sang's name, who joined as a batting coach for the Remainers, is also impressive.
Among them, coach Moon Dong-hwan has returned to Busan for the first time in 22 years since he left Lotte as a compensation player when Jung Soo-geun was hired as an FA in 2003. He spent the last six years of his career at Hanwha, and later coached at Hanwha and Doosan, but he had no connection with Lotte. Recently, I have mainly been active in high school baseball.
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| Moon Dong-hwan during his Lotte days. Sports Chosun DB |
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He is a Busan man from Daecheon Middle School and Dongrae High School. When he was at Yonsei University, he was the best ace who played as the first starter for the national team with a fastball of more than 150km. Lotte picked Moon Dong-hwan as its first nomination in 1995, but Moon headed to Hyundai Phoenix, Ama Baseball, instead of Lotte. At that time, the down payment was 300 million won.
Since then, he wore Lotte's uniform in 1997 with Jeon Joon-ho + 500 million won in expedient trade, and played as Lotte's ace with 12 wins in 1998 and 17 wins in 1999. In particular, although he did not make it to the Korean Series in 1999, he played 189 ⅓ innings, winning 17-4 with a 3.28 ERA and 141 strikeouts.
He is also a pitcher who allowed Lee Seung-yeop's 43rd career home run in a single season, breaking the record of Tyrone Woods. Lee Jung-min (Lotte), a pitcher who allowed his 56th home run in 2003, is famous as a victim of Lee Seung-yeop's new home run record, but Moon Dong-hwan was preceded by him.
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| Moon Dong-hwan, welcomed by Ryu Hyun-jin in 2006. Sports Chosun DB |
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It was when there were a lot of dragonflies in the ballpark, and even Lotte home fans wanted Lee Seung-yeop's home run. Moon Dong-hwan said, "I'm Lotte's ace, but I can't avoid itHe chose to go head-to-head and allowed his 43rd home run (125m distance) at Daegu Civic Stadium on August 2.
Moon Dong-hwan, who gave up Jun-ho before the leadoff that will remain in Lotte's history, coincidentally left the team as another leadoff Jung Soo-geun's compensation player. Since then, he was traded to Hanwha immediately, reviving with 10-9 losses in 2005, and playing as a one-two punch with 16 wins and nine losses in 2006, when Ryu Hyun-jin joined, leading the team to the Korean Series. Since then, he has been injured and eventually retired in 2007.
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| Coach Moon Dong-hwan (center), who is training with Doosan players such as Lee Hyun-seung when he was Doosan pitching coach. Sports Chosun DB |
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He had a relationship with manager Kim Tae-hyung as a pitching coach from 2015 to 2016. Broadly speaking, along with coach Kim Sang-jin, it is another recruitment to make Lotte's pollination and plant 'Winning Mentality'. It is expected that the legendary ace who returned will pass on the know-how to Lotte pitchers.
Lotte's rehabilitation team (Yu Kang-nam Choi Joon-yong and Ko Seung-min) will start as a starting team on the 17th, and the team's main team will start for the first spring camp in Taiwan on the 24th.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
