400 million to Kim Do Young. Kim Sa-yoon insists on 6 million won. KIA kept its system to the end.Another proven cold professional world. You have to be good at the conclusion
Feb 08, 2025
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The world is cold. Especially in the world of professionals who say everything with money, it is not a waste to spend 10 billion won on a good player, but what about a player with poor performance??He is firm even with a million won.
KIA Tigers' Kim Sa-yoon ended the long and long salary tug-of-war with the club. The only outcome of the fight was 'hurt' by giving up the spring camp.
KIA renewed the contract on the 8th "Kim Sa-yoon's annual salary of 40 million won (34 million won in 2024) on the 7th." With this, the KIA Tigers have completed the renewal of the team's salary in 2025." This is an increase of 6 million won from last year. The increase was not small by 17.6%, but the amount was far from the shocking amount seen in the KBO League.
Fans who are familiar with the billion-dollar annual salary may have wondered if they fought like that for such an amount. However, since a player wants to receive a salary the following year as a result of working hard for a year and playing in the game, the club's offer may feel harsh.
According to KBO League regulations, the renewal of the salary must be completed by January 31. Players who fail to complete salary negotiations beyond the deadline are classified as unsigned players. If you do not sign a contract, you will not be able to participate in group training from February 1, when you will be paid. Therefore, Kim Sa-yoon was excluded from both the first and second-tier spring camp list and had to train individually.
Kim Sa-yoon is a player whose name is well known as Kim Jung-bin. After graduating from Hwasun High School, he joined the SK Wyverns (current SSG Landers) as the 28th overall in the third round of the rookie draft in 2013 and began his professional career. In SSG, he rarely settled down in the first division, and in May 2022, KIA gave up catcher Kim Min-sik to SSG and made a one-on-two trade to receive Kim Sa-yoon and infielder Lim Seok-jin, making a fresh start in KIA.
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The annual salary of 40 million won in 2025 is known to be the annual salary offered by KIA. In other words, Kim Sa-yoon wanted a higher salary than him. And the end of a long, long fight is the player's abandonment.
As the season approaches, players are more impatient than clubs. In particular, the less well-known players with poor performance are bound to be in the corner. A good main player will eventually find him at the club when the season begins, even if the club is mired in hate due to a salary fight. Because he's good. And if you do well, even if you fight again in next season's salary negotiations, you will increase it that much.
However, players who do not perform well are not. Since the annual salary is not high right now, training with personal money is also a burden. Since sufficient season preparation is needed for good performance, players are bound to become increasingly frustrated.
KIA gave Kim Do-young, who won the MVP award in this salary renewal, an annual salary of 500 million won, up 400 million won from 100 million won last year. However, he offered a 6 million won increase to Kim Sa-yoon and did not bend to the end.
Since the club determines its annual salary based on its high performance, there is not much room for change in the fixed amount. This is because there is also a problem of equity with other players who have already signed contracts, and it is like denying the salary calculation system.
Kim Sa-yoon had a long and long fight for the amount he wanted, but about two weeks after the spring camp began, he was eventually forced to sign the club's offer.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
