157km → 144km speed limit. King Hold returned to basics, allowing three hits, two steals and two runs in his first Futures. Still, it's better than a walk or wild pitch.

Mar 30, 2025

157km → 144km speed limit. King Hold returned to basics, allowing three hits, two steals and two runs in his first Futures. Still, it's better than a walk or wild pitch.
A practice game between LG and KIA at Kin Stadium in Okinawa, Japan, on the 27th, LG Jung Woo-young. Okinawa (Japan) = Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2025.02.27/



157km → 144km speed limit. King Hold returned to basics, allowing three hits, two steals and two runs in his first Futures. Still, it's better than a walk or wild pitch.
LG Jung Woo-young is pitching hard in the bottom of the third inning in a practice game between LG and KIA at Kin Stadium in Okinawa, Japan, on the 27th. Okinawa (Japan) = Reporter Heo Sang-wook wook@sportschosun.com /2025.02.27/
157km → 144km speed limit. King Hold returned to basics, allowing three hits, two steals and two runs in his first Futures. Still, it's better than a walk or wild pitch.
The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins exhibition game held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 8th. LG Jung Woo-young is catching his breath. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.08/
LG Twins Jung Woo-young was sluggish in his first appearance in the Futures League. There was no walk, but the speed was only in the early 140km range.

Jung Woo-young took the mound in the top of the sixth inning in a Futures League game against the Hanwha Eagles at LG Champions Park in Icheon on the 30th and allowed three hits, one strikeout, and two runs in one inning.

Jung Woo-young, who won the Rookie of the Year award in 2019, grew steadily and became the hold king with a fast mindset of up to 157 kilometers in 2022, playing an active role as LG's setup man.




However, trying to fix the slow slide step, which was considered a fatal weakness, rather made the advantage disappear. The speed of the quick motion reduced the speed and the ball control became unstable.

In 2023, he was sluggish with a 4.70 ERA with 5 wins and 5 losses and 11 holds, and returned after the season after undergoing surgery to remove bone fragments in his elbow, but he was sluggish with 2-1 losses and 3 holds and an ERA of 4.76 last year. The annual salary, which rose to 400 million won in the 2023 season, fell to 180 million won this year.

Jung Woo-young trained for six weeks at the Tread Athletic Center in the U.S. after the season to find the right pitching form for him. Jung Woo-young, who expressed satisfaction, however, shocked the exhibition game with his pitching that was completely out of control. In the exhibition game against KT Wiz on the 8th, he took only one out count, walked two and threw two wild pitches, and left the mound. In the match against Samsung on the 14th, he also walked one and struck out one in ⅓ innings.




157km → 144km speed limit. King Hold returned to basics, allowing three hits, two steals and two runs in his first Futures. Still, it's better than a walk or wild pitch.
The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins exhibition game held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 8th. LG Jung Woo-young is pitching hard. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.08/
157km → 144km speed limit. King Hold returned to basics, allowing three hits, two steals and two runs in his first Futures. Still, it's better than a walk or wild pitch.
An exhibition game between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 14th. LG Jung Woo-young is pitching hard. Daegu=Park Jae-man Reporter pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.03.14/
In the end, we decided to start from the ground up. Jung Woo-young went down to the second division after taking the mound at least once a week for basic training.

And making his first appearance on the 30th.

Jung Woo-young, who came out in the top of the sixth inning, trailing 0-5, hit a ground ball in front of the shortstop for the sixth pitch after a full count battle with No. 7 Jung Min-gyu. In the beginning, the ball fell out of my hand and I didn't seem to be able to catch it, but it gradually came around the strike zone.




From now on, left-handed batters appear one after another.

He struck out Song Ho-jeong No. 8 with a 129km curve in the ball count of 1B2S on the outside strike zone.

However, he allowed No. 9 Jung An-seok to double to the left, and allowed more than one run after being hit by a heavy hit. He then allowed a stolen base to second base, with two outs and a runner on second base, and lost another point after being hit by Lee Min-jae to the left. He allowed Ha Joo-seok to steal second base again during his at-bat, but he caught Ha Joo-seok with a ground ball in front of the first base to finish the inning.

The maximum speed of the day was 144km, and most of the two-seam took about 140,141km. Jung Woo-young, who recorded 146km in the exhibition game, is going through the process of re-establishing basic skills for stable pitching, so it is positive that he did not have a walk on the day.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.