What did he learn in the U.S.? Walk → Riot → Riot → walk. The 157-km hold king's bitter first appearance
Mar 08, 2025
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LG Twins' Jung Woo-young threw a disappointing pitch in his first appearance in Korea.
Jung Woo-young saved starter Yoni Chirinos in the bottom of the fourth inning, one out and one out, trailing 1-2 in the opening match of the exhibition game against KT Wiz at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 8th, but he walked two and threw two wild pitches before leaving the mound.
Jung Woo-young, who recorded 35 holds with up to 157 kilometers of fighting spirit in 2022, became the hold king and stood as the best middle pitcher, fell into a slump for the next two years. While trying to fix the quick motion, which was pointed out as the only weakness, the messy and fast fighting spirit, which was the advantage, disappeared, and when the ball speed dropped, he tried to throw hard, but his ball control was shaken. In the 2023 season, he tormented him with bone fragments and performed surgery the day after winning the Korean Series. I couldn't solve my homework last year, and there was even the aftermath of the surgery.
He deteriorated to a 4.70 ERA with 5 wins, 6 losses and 11 holds in 2023 and a 4.76 ERA with 2 wins, 1 loss and 3 holds last year.
Salary has also dropped sharply. The annual salary, which rose to 400 million won in the 2022 hold king and the 2023 season, fell to 180 million won in the 2025 season.
Desperate. Flying to the US to get back to my old good self. He trained for six weeks at the Charlotte Tread Athletic Center in North Carolina.
Jung Woo-young said, `I want to know more clearly what I did about my baseball for two years after the season and what doesn't suit me well, so I went to a place called Tread Athletics in the U.S. early to train"I've been thinking about wanting to learn about advanced American baseball for years and I've been wanting to go, but I couldn't go because of the WBC and bone fragment surgery, so I thought I'd have to go this time."
Then "Our coaches are good at teaching, but I was curious about what direction they teach in advanced baseball and the mainland baseball."I've been looking at a place called Tread for a year through SNS, but I wanted to experience it myself, so I went to the training center at the end of last year, built myself up for about two weeks in Jamsil, moved right away, and trained for about six weeks on the tread."
Jung Woo-young was not impatient that he would regain his good form in a short period of time. Jung Woo-young said "When I went to a place called Tread and had my first interview, I think it would be difficult to raise the level by 100 percent in the short term to produce results," and "I came to find the form to throw strong balls again and to correct my wrong thoughts" said Jung Woo-young. So, rather than getting results in the short term, I learned from what I learned and learned throughout the season, and I am still training with feedback"
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Jung Woo-young, who was satisfied with his training in the U.S., continued with Arizona camp and Okinawa practice games, especially with a sweeper, raising expectations.
However, expectations collapsed in his first appearance. Jung Woo-young, who met left-handed batter Kim Min-hyuk with one out, allowed a straight walk. With runners on the first and second bases with one out, he threw two balls in a row and became a wild pitch on the third pitch. An absolutely unfavorable count of 3B on second and third bases with one out. Hwang Jae-gyun hit the fourth pitch, and it was a slightly floating ball. Tall Jung Woo-young jumped, but he couldn't catch it, and he wondered if he would be an infield hit like this, but Shin Min-jae, who ran, caught it no-bound with a diving catch and made two outs.
Jung Woo-young, who played against Bae Jeong-dae No. 8 with two outs and runners on the second and third bases, caught the advantageous count of 2S with a swing and miss on the second pitch following a strike on the first pitch. However, with two consecutive balls and five pitches, the ball fell backward, and Moon Sang-chul, the third baseman, homered. 1-3. Then, he becomes a ball for the sixth time in the full count and walks to base.
In the end, LG replaced the pitcher with Song Seung-ki.Song Seung-ki caught Kim Sang-soo with a fly to second baseman at the first pitch and ended the long fourth inning.
A total of 14 balls were sprayed, with 3 strikes and 11 balls. He threw 7 pitches of up to 146km, 2 fastballs of 142km, and 5 sliders of 128km.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
