Pitchers are good this year, scouting eye, not wrong, rookie 4 starters, finish, must-win group..There are so many opening games?
Mar 06, 2025
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It was a story that sounded familiar at front-line sites such as the Cheongryong High School Baseball Tournament in the year of Han Jin-hae. The eyes of the 'hawk eyes' scouts traveling throughout the field were not wrong.
Rookie pitchers assigned to each club are drawing attention ahead of the opening. There are many pitchers who will be in the present, not the future of the team.
There are also four or five candidates for the team's closer and must-win group.
Kim Young-woo, a right-handed fireballer who joined the LG Twins as the 10th pick in the first round, is likely to be the closing pitcher for the opening game.
This is because Jang Hyun-sik, who was selected as LG's new closing pitcher this season, injured his right foot and other external ligaments during the Arizona camp in the U.S. If the opening treatment of Jang Hyun-sik, who is rehabilitating for four weeks, is delayed, the temporary completion is Kim Young-woo. The pitcher who threw a fastball of up to 156km during his time at Seoul High School. In this camp, it also attracted attention as a 154km light speed ball. Coach Yeom Kyung-yeop, who boldly gives a chance when he sees a sprout, is determined to enter the opening entry.
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At the Okinawa camp, Bae Chan-seung was one of the top talk players. In the warm-up match against Yomiuri, he engraved 152km on the electronic display at the first pitch, allowing no runs in one inning and one walk. In the warm-up match against KIA, he turned the batter to KKK and was selected as one of the camp pitcher MVPs along with Park Joo-hyuk.
He is a top left-hander with not only strong pitching but also boldness and calmness that is not like a rookie. He is the first pick that quickly proves the trust and choice of Lee Jong-yeol and the scout team. He emerged as a welcome rain in the Samsung bullpen, which has no left-hander throwing fast balls. Samsung manager Park Jin-man also fully admits it. "Even if it's a practice game, the players think differently about the Yomiuri match. Cellular field also has a large number of Japanese spectators. Bae Chan-seung threw his ball even in such a situation. If the ball power is in the air right now, it is possible to make a winning team," he said, expressing his intention to appoint him not only in the opening entry but also in the bullpen.
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Kiwoom Heroes left-hander Chung Hyun-woo is the No. 1 overall draft winner. He has competed with Hanwha Jung Woo-joo as a perfect left-hander special since high school.
It's a masterpiece. Chung Hyun-woo was also on the radar of Hong, who raised promising pitchers such as rookie Kim Yoon-ha and Ha Young-min with excellent vision and tenacity last year. Coach Hong said in an interview back home on the 5th, "He is a young player as evaluated by the Scout team, but I felt that he was definitely one step ahead of his peers in terms of his ability to run games and count fights."First of all, Rosenberg, Ha Young-min, Kim Yoon-ha, and Jung Hyun-woo are definitive," he said, making Chung Hyun-woo's fourth starter a fait accompli.
There is one more rookie aiming for the remaining starting spot. Kim Seo-joon, a 1m90-tall right-hander who was designated as the seventh-ranked player in the first round transferred from NC. The combination of a 150km fast ball, a big curve, and a slider that goes down from a high RBI using a tall height is excellent.
During the Taiwan camp, he showed up to 146km of fastballs and curves in one inning against the Zhongxin Brothers, impressing with two strikeouts and no runs in one inning. If he is selected during the competition for the fifth starter, an unconventional picture is expected to unfold in which two rookie pitchers take the two starting positions.
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A real-life pitcher who skillfully plays fastball in the mid-to-late 140km range and change-up sliders with good control and tunneling. It received attention early on for its stable pitching balance and game management ability. He was the only Doosan rookie pitcher to join the camp, and after being selected as the MVP in the first Australian camp, he received a lot of trust from manager Lee Seung-yeop in Miyazaki. Manager Lee hinted at the possibility of joining the opening entry, saying, `Lee Seung-yup is brave enough not to look like a fresh high school graduate.'
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
