Gwangju Nail Sweeper, who has become a city of harnesses, is also going to die, but how do you hit the all-rounder's love
Feb 26, 2025
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KIA Tigers, the defending champion, won the combined championship last year. There were many glorious characters, but I can't help but think of James Nail, who played the ace, as the first contributor.
Nail mainly played as a bullpen in the United States, but she played as a first starter with overwhelming ball power, dispelling the starting physical problem. There was also a lot of bad luck during the season when he was hit on the chin by a hit, but after overcoming that, he returned to the Korean Series with 'Bulsajo' to win the team, so it's truly 'Bok-Doo'.
One of the biggest reasons Nail was able to succeed in the KBO League was his main weapon 'Sweeper'. A breaking ball thrown by many pitchers around the U.S. Major League Baseball recently. It's a slider trajectory, and it's a ball that batters don't even know because the angle of the ball is much bigger. In the 2023 season, Eric Peddy (then NC) created a sweeper craze and wrote a major league 'reverse export myth', and Nail once again dominated the KBO League as a sweeper. It's not that Nail didn't think about returning to the U.S., but she's joining hands again with KIA's hot bet of $1.8 million.
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Recently, it is easy to find information on new players coming to Korea. It was a mess even before I came. Looking at the play video, it was equipped with a weapon that no other players threw. 'Slubs' If Park Chan-ho is interested in baseball during his U.S. Major League career, he has heard of it. Simply put, it can be seen as a combination of slider and curve. The angle of bending horizontally like a slider is large, and it also falls like a curve.
Few pitchers recently threw slobs in the KBO League. Therefore, attention was inevitably focused on Oler's Slove. Major League hitters were also helpless because they came toward the right-handed batter's body and bent downward.
The video is a video. In fact, it was important what kind of ball All-Love threw. Then I took off the veil. Oler appeared as the third pitcher in a practice game against the Hanwha Eagles at Kin Stadium in Okinawa, Japan, on the 25th and played two innings.
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That was impressive. Hanwha veteran batter Lee Jae-won flinched and avoided, thinking the ball was coming with his head, but the ball was ruled a strike in the middle. Shim Woo-joon is also surprised and avoids it. Looking at the fast fastball and the slub flowing from the right-handed batter's body or center gave me the feeling that I would have no choice but to be beaten even if I knew it.
What was scarier was the fastball. In the chilly Okinawa, the first real game in KIA uniform, he was not in normal condition due to a stomachache. But I shot 153 kilometers. The ball itself was strong, and the height was 1m93, so the RBI was high, which seemed to be tricky for the angle hitters in which the ball flew in.
If the game's physical strength is raised smoothly, it has been clearly confirmed that he is a pitcher with qualities that can threaten Nail's ace position. Nail sweeper is also too much, but now I have to deal with Oler's Slove. Gwangju has become a city of harnesses.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
