The result is more important than the process. The 151km fastball of a rookie, who is 19 years older than the process, also hit...How a 38-year-old veteran survives

Apr 08, 2025

The result is more important than the process. The 151km fastball of a rookie, who is 19 years older than the process, also hit...How a 38-year-old veteran survives
The KBO League game between Lotte and Doosan held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 5th. Jeong Hoon hit a timely RBI single in the sixth inning. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.04.05/



The result is more important than the process. The 151km fastball of a rookie, who is 19 years older than the process, also hit...How a 38-year-old veteran survives
The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and KIA will be held at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 8th. Jung Hoon is doing batting training before the game. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.08/
The result is more important than the process. The 151km fastball of a rookie, who is 19 years older than the process, also hit...How a 38-year-old veteran survives
KBO League SSG and Lotte at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 26th. Lotte's batting Jung Hoon. Incheon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.26/
It's always a full swing. He analyzes his opponent and swings his bat with all his might. Even at the age of 38, he is evaluated as being "strong in fastball" and is the secret to making bullet hits. It is the mindset of a swordsman with the meaning of 'Ildo (one 刀, one 殺)'.

The first week of April for the Lotte Giants was the first winning week of the new season (3 wins and 2 losses). The 8th-ranked team batting average was frustrating, and on the 6th, Lotte, which fell to the bottom, was a victim of the so-called 「4·6 Battle」 against the Doosan Bears, but set up a turning point.

Jung Hoon is at the center of it. He had six hits in 19 at-bats (316), including one home run, beating his juniors and hitting hard for a week. In particular, home runs are one of Lotte's only six arches this season. He performed like an oasis in the frustrating reality of team batting average, team home run, and team OPS ranking eighth.




The home run launched on the 3rd was against Hanwha's rookie Jung Woo-joo. Along with Moon Dong-ju and Kim Seo-hyun, he is called the three brothers of fastball baby eagles. However, he gave an unexpected blow to the veteran who had gone through all the hardships.

"I've been playing for decades, but I don't know baseball every year. While preparing 'It's really good', but the result doesn't come out, and it's not good again, but the result comes out. Now I'm a person whose outcome is more important than the process. Somehow I'm squeezing my head out of every at-bat to make an in-play hit."

The result is more important than the process. The 151km fastball of a rookie, who is 19 years older than the process, also hit...How a 38-year-old veteran survives
The KBO League match between SSG and Lotte at SSG Landers Field in Incheon on the 25th. Jung-hoon got on base after hitting the leadoff hitter in the top of the eighth inning. Incheon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.25/
Last year's lineup led by Yoon Go-na Hwang-son ' is sluggish all at once, but players who have had experience in the first division, including Jung Hoon, Yoo Kang-nam, Kim Min-sung, and Jeon Min-jae, are leading the lineup. Jung-hoon said "Until the existing main players come up, I won't give them up, but of course, it's a role that veterans should play. Competition that creates such synergy is the power of our team."




In the KBO League, the number of fastballs exceeding 150km has increased significantly due to the occurrence of the 「Arrest Revolution」. Jung-hoon "In the past, he threw 145, 150 kilometers only for the first and second starters, but that's not the case these days. The breaking ball has also become much more diverse than before."

In particular, Jung Woo-joo's ball, which Jung Hoon hit a home run, was a 151km fastball. Usually, when you get older, you tend to be strong against breaking balls instead of showing weakness in fastballs.

But Jung-hoon is different. He still maintains the bat speed as much as he did when he was young. Jung-hoon "A young friend threw a really good ball. I was thinking of focusing on the center of the bat, but it came to my body, so I hit it with a momentary reaction, and it became a home run. If we meet again, I'm not confident," he said with a smile. Regarding watching the ball without leaving the batter's box immediately after the home run, he was embarrassed, saying, `I was not watching it, but watching it because I was afraid it would be foul.'




The result is more important than the process. The 151km fastball of a rookie, who is 19 years older than the process, also hit...How a 38-year-old veteran survives
The KBO League exhibition game between Lotte and LG at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 11th. Lotte Jung-hoon, who hit an RBI timely hit in the bottom of the first inning. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.03.11/
He joined the Hyundai Unicorns as a new player in 2006 and was released a year later. No one knew that Jung Hoon would remain such a long-running player in 2010 when he joined Lotte as a nurturing player after serving in the military as a mortar. It's been a while since my student (Park Young-wan) who was working as a physical education teacher played for a team. The desire to win is hidden in a good laugh.

"If you ask him to play in any position, he will play in any position. It always starts as a backup, but our juniors should always be on their toes. If I feel like there will be an empty seat, I practice that position from that day. "I'm not playing baseball until this age to back up," said Jung-hoon, a professional spirit who said, "It's a point that juniors should learn more than anything else.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.