We finally met! Will the trade bill be rewritten? Fate meeting from the opening game...Can we be lucky ones for each other?
Mar 23, 2025
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A fateful meeting took place from the opening game. Lotte Giants Son Ho-young and LG Twins Woo Kang-hoon met again on the first-team stage after the counter-trade.
It was in the top of the ninth inning when LG led 12-2 in the opening game of Jamsil on the 22nd. Woo Kang-hoon took the mound as LG's fourth pitcher after Kim Jin-sung and Park Myung-geun. Son Ho-young pulled Woo Kang-hoon's second fastball of 147km and hit an infield hit that flowed to the side of the shortstop.
It ended in vain with the next batter, Information Geun, but it was a moment when Son Ho-young's living batting sense and concentration stood out.
Woo Kang-hoon has gone through a period of adjustment over the past year. This year, it is expected to be used as a pitcher who can even put in a must-win group in case of emergency in the LG bullpen. LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop said, `Jang Hyun-sik, Kim Kang-ryul, Kim Jin-sung, Baek Seung-hyun, Park Myung-geun are the must-winners, and Woo Kang-hoon, Lee Woo-chan, and Kim Yoo-young are the backers. First of all, the bullpen plan for this season.'
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However, LG manager Yeom Kyung-yeop paid attention to Woo Kang-hoon as a counter-trade target. He is a sidearm pitcher who throws a fastball '150km', and he is young, born in 2002, and has already completed his military service. For LG, it was a shot that penetrated Lotte's weaknesses fiercely. Rather, Lotte accepted it after deep consideration.
Sidearm throwing a 150km fastball to the military pen, and the target of the trade is a 30-year-old infielder who is 8 years old, injured, and has never had a proper chance in the first team. Immediately after the trade, Lotte's fandom expressed anger.
The result is a case that proved the insight of director Kim Tae-hyung. Even he was tongue-in-cheek, saying, `I didn't expect to be this good.' He missed more than a month due to a hamstring injury and did not fill the regular at-bats, but he hit a batting average of 318 with 18 home runs (first place in the team) with 78 RBIs and an OPS (on-base plus slugging) of 0.896. He recorded the most home runs in the team and even entered the clean-up trio.
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Son Ho-young was sluggish in the exhibition game, but he showed off his good batting performance by hitting two hits, including a two-run timely hit that became the team's only score in the opening game.
That second hit was Woo Kang-hoon's pitch. It is expected that he will be able to play as Lotte's center hitter again this year.
But the trade bill can change at any time. Will Woo Kang-hoon be able to show the future as coach Yeom Kyung-yeop guaranteed this season and in the future. How will the two teams' bills change in the future.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
