Can an 11th-win pitcher revive compensation for objectifying his ball? Lim Chan-gyu, left-handed, is the solution to the jealousy.
Feb 25, 2025
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Will Choi Chae-heung (30), who will start anew from the LG Twins, be 'left-handed Lim Chan-kyu'.
LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop's advice to Choi Chae-heung was 'know yourself'. Choi Chae-heung revealed the conversation he had with manager Yeom during the spring camp, saying, `The coach said he wanted to objectify his ball, but he told me to look at Chan-gyu and do a lot of research.'
Choi Chae-heung, nominated by LG as a compensation player for FA Choi Won-tae, who moved to Samsung, was a promising player who won 11 games as a starter in 2020. After being discharged from the military, he has yet to get on track with 1-7 losses and 6.68 ERA in 2023 and 6.30 ERA with one hold last year. In the meantime, juniors lost their place as they came up.
As Choi Chae-heung is a fastball type who does not have a fastball speed, Yeom said, "Think of directions based on control and timing rather than greed for speed."
In addition, LG has experts over there. It's Lim Chan-gyu. Lim Chan-gyu has a speed of around 140km, but he is a style that competes with batters through control and timing battles with changeups and curves. He won 14 games in 2023 and 10 last year, winning double-digit wins for the second consecutive year. In particular, he became a winning pitcher in all three games in the postseason last year and posted a good 1.08 ERA, proving that it works in big games.
Choi Chae-heung received a lot of help from Chan-gyu-hyung "Chan Kyu-hyung looks very bright outside, but when I saw him exercising, I felt that there was a reason why he was good at it." I played catch together, but it was different."
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Choi Chae-heung said, `In Samsung, I felt like I was brightening up the atmosphere so that young players could do well, but in LG, I was very serious when training and the atmosphere was solemn.' `Pitching was also raised to almost 100% at the camp site during Samsung, but there were many areas where I restrained myself. I think it's still 70-80% by slowly raising it."
The focus of the camp was the vertical movement. During the offseason, I found a lot of vertical movements fell off and my wrist was sagging, so I tried to fix them, and the result was good. Choi Chae-heung said, `The average vertical movement was 39 last year, but I'm satisfied because it seems to have increased by about 10 on average in camp.'
Choi Chae-heung, who won 11 games as a starting pitcher at Samsung, has a desire to start. Song Seung-ki, who recorded a triple crown in the Futures League last year, was first given the opportunity as a fifth starter.
Choi Chae-heung intends to focus on throwing a good ball first. "Whatever the role, it is most important to show my performance in the first team. If you throw it, you'll have a chance, and if you do that, I think it'll keep getting betterChoi Chae-heung said, `I have a desire for selection, but the first thing to do is to make sure I play the role given.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
