No. 1 Song Seong-moon No. 1 Puig Dodgers, I'm not jealous, I'll go to Dakgong no matter what

Feb 22, 2025

Song Sung-moon preparing to strike. Photo = Kium Heroes

[Zai (Taiwan) = Reporter Na Yuri from Sports Chosun] Attack no matter what. The Kiwoom Heroes' test for a strong lineup continues.

The Kiwoom Heroes team is holding a second spring camp in Taiwan that focuses on actual games. Kiwoom, which played a practice game against the Zhongxin Brothers at CTBC Park in Pingtung, Kaohsiung on the 20th, will check their sense of practice again with the Rakuten Monkeys at Zai Zai Prefectural Stadium on the 22nd.

Since the first camp's own practice game in Arizona, the U.S., coach Hong Won-ki has been taking out the 'strong first hitter' card. In the Arizona practice game, foreign slugger Yasiel Puig was the first hitter, and in Taiwan, Song Sung-moon was placed in the first batting order for the second consecutive game.

Song Sung-moon is the first hitter, Puig is the second hitter, and Ruben Cadines, another foreign hitter, are the third hitter, and all of the first to third are the strongest hitters in the team. It is also in contrast to placing foreign hitters and key hitters who are the best in the team in the clean-up, such as Song Sung-moon.

야시엘 푸이그. Photo = Kium Heroes

The Los Angeles Dodgers also come to mind. The Dodgers usually place Shohei Ohtani, the league's MVP and the team's most threatening hitter, at No. 1, and Mookie Betts, another key hitter, at No. 2. Rather, Tommy Edman, who has weak slugging power, may be deployed in the batting order of No. 4 and No. 5. The main hitters are placed at 1 to 3.

Kiwoom is conducting several tests in practice games, placing Choi Joo-hwan and Lee Ju-hyung at No. 4 and 5. The batting order can be finely adjusted throughout the exhibition game, but for now, stronger hitters are being tested in the upper batting order and relatively less slugging hitters in the lower batting order.

Photo=Kium Heroes

In fact, except for the first attack in the first inning, the turn of batting during the game is meaningless. Even if Puig is placed at No. 1, hitters No. 8 and No. 9 can serve as table setters. Rather, strong batters such as Song Sung-moon and Puig can take advantage of the advantage of being able to enter more at-bats.

Kiwoom manager Hong Won-ki recruited two foreign batters to strengthen their offensive power. We are trying to forward-deploy strong hitters to increase efficiency as much as possible"It seems that the recent trend is flowing in that direction. There is no right answer, but I think that direction will not be bad for us to score a lot of points and RBIs. I think this batting order will be tried a lot this season"It foretold 'strong number one active utilization"

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.