It's not even an injury, but he's going back to the second division 10 days after returning to the first team of 2.1 billion FA. Large trade outfield was also canceled
May 08, 2025
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On the 8th, a break day that ended the long and long nine-game series, each club adjusted its entry.
The most notable player is Lotte's Koo Seung-min. Koo Seung-min, who signed an FA contract worth a total of 2.1 billion won in 2+2 years after finishing last season, has yet to show what he expected.
The restraint did not rise early in the season. On March 23, against the Doosan Bears, he had three hits (one home run) and one walk in ⅔ innings, and eventually went down to the second division on March 26 to reorganize.
Contrary to expectations that it would rise quickly, it took time. He had to recover his speed enough to fight in the first team, but his speed rarely increased. Fortunately, the speed limit, which was only in the early 140km range, rose to 148km and came back to the first team on April 29, about a month later.
Koo Seung-min, who took the mound immediately against Kiwoom on the first day of his return and pitched a stable pitching with no hits and one strikeout for one ⅓ inning, continued to be uneasy in pitching afterward.
On the 2nd, the NC match went up to effectively wrap up the game after one out in the top of the ninth inning with a 4-3 lead, but was hit by pinch hitter Park Si-won's double to the right-center. He caught Kim Joo-won with a fly to center field to make two outs, but eventually replaced Kim Sang-soo at Park Min-woo's at-bat. Kim Sang-soo caught Park Min-woo with a ground ball in front of the second base and managed to secure a one-run victory.
On the 4th, he became a losing pitcher against NC. Koo Seung-min, who came up as the second pitcher after starting Barnes at third base with one out in the top of the sixth inning with a 6-4 lead, caught pinch-hitter Park Min-woo with a ground ball in front of the first base, but the third baseman homered and became 6-5 at that time, and in the top of the seventh inning, he was replaced by Jung Chul-won after giving up a walk to Son Ah-seop after one out and Davison, and Jung Chul-won was beaten by Kim Hyung-joon, giving Koo Seung-min two runs, and the loss was recorded.
In the match against SSG on the 7th, he gave one hit and one walk in ⅓ innings, allowing one run (scarce). Koo Seung-min, who took the mound with two outs and a runner on first base in the top of the eighth inning with a 6-1 lead, handled the pinch-hitter Jihoon Choi with a fly to left field, but when he also came up in the top of the ninth inning, he gave a walk to lead Choi Joon-woo and was replaced by Jeong Chul-won after hitting a right-handed hit by pinch-hitter Jung Joon-jae. Eventually, he was eliminated from the first team on the 8th.
Doosan Bears outfielder Kim Min-seok was also notified of his move to the second division. Kim Min-seok, who was in a slump after showing good performance early in the season and went down to the second division on April 3, returned to the first division on April 20 but remained batting .273 (6 hits in 22 at-bats) with one RBI in 12 games since then. In recent years, most of them have played as substitutes, and they haven't had many opportunities. He decided that it would be better to play in the second division while not being able to play much in the game.
In addition, Samsung infielder Ahn Joo-hyung, pitcher Jung Min-sung, Kiwoom infielder Kim Woong-bin and outfielder Park Soo-jong were canceled from the first team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
