Of course, it's right to hear a word...Have you ever hit 8 percent? You're most desperate for 4.6 billion won
May 12, 2025
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NC Dinos catcher Park Se-hyuk (35) is having the most difficult season this year since his professional debut in 2012. Park Se-hyuk won his first career FA qualification ahead of the 2023 season and succeeded in signing a four-year contract worth 4.6 billion won with NC. NC invested in Park Se-hyuk's experience playing as a master since 2019 at the Doosan Bears, which is called the catcher's academy. NC was raising Kim Hyung-joon (26) as a leading catcher early on, but it certainly needed an experienced catcher like Park Se-hyuk.
Since moving to NC, Park Se-hyuk has not established a position to be called 'House Ma'am'. The number of opportunities to play has significantly decreased compared to Doosan's time with 88 games in 2023 and 82 games in 2024. First of all, NC was a team with a clear goal and will to raise Kim Hyung-joon as the No. 1 catcher, and Park Se-hyuk continued his opportunity to play at a level that arranged Kim Hyung-joon's physical strength. The club's plan to raise young and promising players is fully understandable.
Park Se-hyuk personally had to secure more time to play in order to pay 4.6 billion won for his meal. This is why he visited Kang Jung-ho, who has been taking batting lessons in the U.S. every winter for the past two years. Park Se-hyuk himself acknowledged his weakness in hitting and tried to make up for it.
However, Park's season performance this year is disastrous. He hit 0.088 (3 hits in 34 at-bats) with one homer and three RBIs in 21 games. It was a report card that I had never received when I played as a backup when I was a prospect at Doosan. This year, the No. 1 catcher position was completely given to Kim Hyung-joon, so it was not even easier to raise the sense of hitting and playing.
In the first game of the doubleheader against the Doosan Bears at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 11th, he was frustrated due to the replacement of the reprimand. Park Se-hyuk got a chance to start as Kim Hyung-joon's knee injury made it difficult to play in both double headers, and Park Se-hyuk was in the process of allowing four runs due to two defensive errors in the bottom of the first inning. As a catcher, NC manager Lee Ho-joon replaced Park Se-hyuk with Ahn Jung-yeol as a pinch hitter ahead of his first at-bat in the top of the second inning in consideration of his breathing with starting pitcher Logan. In addition to Park Se-hyuk, shortstop Kim Joo-won and second baseman Seo Ho-chul, who participated in the error, were replaced one after another. Fortunately, NC came from behind to win 11-5 amid the performances of its replacements.
Coach Lee also used Park Se-hyuk as the starting catcher in the second game of the subsequent doubleheader. In fact, Ahn Jung-yeol, who played like a starter in the first game, needed a physical arrangement. Park Se-hyuk did not miss the opportunity to make up for it, and held on tightly. With the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the third inning at 2-2, Park Se-hyuk hit a timely two-run hit to the right to widen the distance to 4-2. Thanks to this, NC won 7 consecutive games with a 5-2 victory, and was able to rise from 7th place to 4th place at once.
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Before the second game of the doubleheader, Park Se-hyuk's batting average for the season was only 0.067. It's a lie if you don't care about figures that rarely go up, but I'm holding out with the idea of not seeing the batting average and only hitting that helps the team.
Park Se-hyuk says, `I have a low batting average, but I don't want to dwell on it. I'm still a senior rather than a batting average, but I feel good to be able to give strength to the team when it has to win a little bit and continue its winning streak. The reason why I was able to hit the final hit was because veteran players on the real bench cheered me a lot. All the players cheer for me a lot when I go out. My grades have been bad so far, but I want to thank my team today (11th) for the support"He confessed.
He hoped that the winning hit would serve as an opportunity to rebound. Park Se-hyuk himself is feeling the balance gradually improving in his recent batting.
Park Se-hyuk said "My balance seems to be getting a little better, so I think I should keep it well. Although his performance is a little low now, it is right for professional players to say something when his performance drops. "I thought my self-esteem was falling a little bit after the second, but it's good that a little pleasant timely hit came out. "
As NC is on a roll with seven consecutive wins, he vowed to continue to do his best to help the team as a veteran.
Park Se-hyuk said, `We have a lot of young players on our team. If veterans don't play a role, young players feel intimidated when they play against an opponent team with a lot of veterans. I'm on the bench, too, but I interact with young pitchers in the dugout and say a lot of things like, `Try to throw it in this situation." Today, (Kim) Nok-won is a young pitcher, and I felt grateful that he threw bravely at Jamsil Baseball Stadium without being intimidated. I think he kept saying thank you. Veteran players are working really hard right now, but I think the ranking will go up if you wait a little bit," he said emphatically.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
