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| LG Twins Son Joo-young sprays the ball at Arizona camp. Photo courtesy = LG Twins |
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| LG Twins Son Joo-young sprays the ball at Arizona camp. Photo courtesy = LG Twins |
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| LG Twins Son Joo-young sprays the ball at Arizona camp. Photo courtesy = LG Twins |
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Usually, pitchers can tell themselves how good their condition is, but they feel more objective after looking at the restraint. When you have a good sense of throwing, but there are times when you actually don't have a good sense of restraint, you are more likely to believe in restraint, which is an objective indicator.
One of the figures that gives you a sense of how well you've done in spring camp is restraint. In early bullpen pitching, the ball is thrown at 60-80% of the time in the season, but the ball speed is sometimes a little less than in the season, which sometimes surprises officials and fans.
However, even though I have made a good body, there are times when the restraint comes out less. Not only the player himself but also the people around him can be embarrassed. If there is less restraint, you may think that people around you have trained less.
Main players intentionally pull themselves up slowly in time for the season according to their routines, but those who do not may get injured while trying to speed up their speed. In particular, rookies, young players, and first- and fifth- or second-tier players who need to be in the eyes of the coaching staff may be impatient.
Son Joo-young, the left-handed ace produced by the LG Twins last year, did not measure his speed gun in the first bullpen pitching, and put a speed gun on the bullpen pitching on the 7th (Korea time), the second time, but he was a little embarrassed. Son Joo-young, who had a maximum speed of 152km last year, recorded about 148km on days when his condition was not good, but 140km was the maximum speed even though it was about 80% of the bullpen pitching. Son Joo-young's arrest can be seen as an unexpected result at a time when there are already articles on pitchers who are speeding up to their maximum regular season arrest. Still, Son Joo-young said, `It's not as fast as I thought yet. I'm going to try to pull it up slowly for the rest of the camp."
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| LG Twins Son Joo-young is pitching a bullpen at Arizona camp. Photo courtesy = LG Twins |
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| The 5th semi-PO game between KT and LG held at Jamsil Stadium in Seoul on the 11th. LG advanced to the playoffs with a 4-1 victory. Lim Chan-kyu, who was selected as the series MVP, and Son Joo-young, the MVP of Game 5, are hugging each other. Jamsil = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2024.10.11/ |
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| A game between the LG Twins and the KT Wiz in Game 5 of the semi-playoff at Jamsil Stadium on the 11th. Daily MVP Son Joo-young is posing. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2024.10.11/ |
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Comments that you can say because you know your location and physical condition well. It may be embarrassing, but it can be interpreted that the mental state is that stable. Son Joo-young will play in the postseason for the first time last year, but she pitched confidently as if she were a pitcher she had thrown for a long time. In the third and fifth semi-playoff games against KT Wiz, he played a big role in LG's advance to the playoffs by scoring one win and one hold by not allowing a run.
If it was last year, Son Joo-young had to do his best in the spring camp to become the fifth starter, but now he has already been confirmed as the fourth starter, so he has plenty of time until the regular season. There is no need to raise the restraint quickly. And there is no reason to overdo it. He threw 144 ⅔ innings as the first full-time starter last year and threw in the postseason, so he had a lot of physical consumption. Unfortunately, he gave up his participation in the tournament even though he was selected for the Premier 12 national team due to a problem in his elbow after coming out as an intermediate pitch in the fourth playoff game against the Samsung Lions. It wasn't a major injury because he stopped pitching right away when he felt an abnormality, and he was able to exercise with only two weeks of rest, but he had no choice but to be cautious.
Son Joo-young recorded 9 wins and 10 losses with a 3.79 ERA last year, ranking eighth overall in ERA and second in Korea. He showed quite stable performance as a left-handed starter, showing the quality of selecting the next national team. However, Yoon Seok-min, Hanwha Ryu Hyun-jin, and SSG Kim Kwang-hyun, who retired in the off-season, appeared on a YouTube channel and talked about the next generation of pitchers as national team ace, but the names of left-handed pitchers, including Son Joo-young, did not come out.
In response, Son Joo-young "I think I need to work harder."I think I should make an overwhelming score and imprint my name on my seniors," he said, adding that he was determined. "I want to throw more than 160 innings and win 15 games in 28 to 30 games as a starter."He confidently revealed his goal for this season.
In the spring camp, it is just a training session for the regular season. The restraint in the spring camp doesn't matter at all. It was an episode that confirmed Son Joo-young's strong mentality.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
