Batting a batting average of 0.485! Ha Joo-seok appeared in the first team...Registration is still

Apr 06, 2025

The KBO League exhibition game between Hanwha and Samsung held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 17th. Hanwha's Ha Joo-seok hit a timely RBI single in the third inning. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.17/

Ha Joo-seok of Hanwha Eagles finally appeared in the first team.

Ha joined the first-team training ahead of the match against the Samsung Lions at Samsung Lions Park in Daegu on the 6th. After bombing the Futures League, he was called to the first team.

Ha Joo-seok finished last season and became the first FA in his career.

After graduating from Shinil High School, he joined Hanwha in the first round of the rookie draft (the first overall pick) in 2012. It was evaluated that it is highly likely to grow into a large shortstop. He gained experience when he was given the opportunity to play in his first 70 games, but he became a first-team player in earnest from 2016 after completing his military service at Sangmu. He played in 115 games in 2016 and hit 10 home runs with a batting average of 279, making his first double-digit home run, and established himself as a `big shot shortstop' with 11 home runs in 2017. However, after injuries overlapped, he was disciplined for a series of personal incidents and was unable to properly improve his sense of action afterwards.

Last year, when he was a preliminary FA, he did not have a bad performance with a batting average of 292 in 64 games. However, as Hanwha signed a four-year total of 5 billion won with shortstop Shim Woo-joon, who has good defense early on, Ha Joo-seok's remaining at Hanwha became unclear.

It was not easy to sign a contract with other clubs, and in the end, he signed a contract with Hanwha for a total of 110 million won per year.

Ha Joo-seok, who prepared for the season with great enthusiasm, showed a good batting sense with a batting average of .400 in six exhibition games. However, the opening entry failed, and Ha Joo-seok began an armed protest in the Futures League.

In 10 games in the Futures League, he hit hard, hitting a batting average of 485, four RBIs, one stolen base, four walks, and a 0.541 on-base percentage.

Hanwha's batting lineup continued to be in a slump until the 4th. With the team's batting average falling to the 10% level, he had only three hits in the game on the 4th.

Naturally, attention was drawn to Ha Joo-seok, who bombed the Futures League. Coach Kim joined the first-team training after completing 10 Futures games while he had been reticent about Ha Joo-seok's story.

Meanwhile, Hanwha formed the starting lineup in the order of An Chi-hong (2nd baseman), Esteban Floral (left fielder), Kim Tae-yeon (1st baseman), Moon Hyun-bin (center fielder), Noh Si-hwan (3rd baseman), Lee Jin-young (right fielder), Chae Eun-sung (designated hitter), Lee Jae-won (possessed) and Shim Woo-jun (striker).