Baseball is not easy...The expected player mentioned directly by veteran Baek Jeon-won, joining the first team → Why Futures?

Jun 22, 2025

Baseball is not easy...The expected player mentioned directly by veteran Baek Jeon-won, joining the first team → Why Futures?
The 2024 KBO Awards ceremony was held at Lotte Hotel World in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 26th. Sangmu Park Jung-hyun, who won the Futures League RBI Award and the Home Run Award, is giving his acceptance speech. Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2024.11.26/



"It's only a week away...."

Hanwha Eagles head coach Kim Kyung-moon recently said, `There is a player I look forward to.'

The player Kim directly mentioned was Park Jung-hyun (24), who was discharged from the Sangmu Baseball Team on the 17th.




Park Jung-hyun, who joined Hanwha in the second round of the rookie draft (78th overall) in 2020, appeared in 197 games by 2023, recording 224 six home runs, 41 RBIs, and an OPS (long hitting rate + on base rate) of 0.570.

At Sangmu, Park Jung-hyun showed a clear growth. Last year, he hit 16 home runs in the Futures League and became the home run king of the Futures League.

Although he played only 12 games due to hamstring pain this year, he is considered a resource to revitalize Hanwha's infield.




Park Jung-hyun joined the first-team squad, which has been playing at Sajik Stadium in Busan since being discharged from the military, to train. Park Jung-hyun, who built his body with the first-team squad for about a week, will not be registered in the first team immediately, and will join the Futures League for now.

Ahead of the game on the 22nd, head coach Kim said "After today's game, it will be an away week. I'm afraid I'm not playing well. Now that I've heard from coaches what kind of practice I need (while training in the first team), I think it would be good to go (to Futures) this time and raise the sense of the game while playing. Also, I couldn't go to the game much because I was hurt. Baseball seems to be easy, but it's never easy. "You have to get used to it by playing in the game," he stressed.

Coach Kim continued, `Now, there are many second-tier broadcasts, and even if there is no second-tier broadcast, the contents of the game are coming, so I try to see the situation when it's enough.'




Park Jung-hyun said "Some of them were not prepared properly because they were injured in the military. After being discharged from the military, the coach, coaches, and older brothers taught me a lot, so I improved. I felt that I was growing for a week." "The coach told me the part of fighting at the ballpark and told me to practice a lot." He also explained, "Futures told me to hit a lot of bats."

Baseball is not easy...The expected player mentioned directly by veteran Baek Jeon-won, joining the first team → Why Futures?
The match between Hanwha and LG held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 14th. Hanwha Ponce finished the inning with Park Dong-won striking out in the sixth inning. Daejeon = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.14/
Meanwhile, while the game was not held due to rain for two consecutive days, Hanwha predicted Cody Ponce as the starting pitcher for three consecutive days. Ponce had nine wins, no losses and a 2.16 ERA in 15 games this season.

Coach Kim said, `I think the pitching coach should ask Ponce about the starting pitcher after the cancellation before the decision to cancel the rain is made on the 21st. Ponce and Weiss (who are scheduled to start on the 22nd) are both throwing well. But I think I should ask Ponce, who started first, and then decide" he said. In the end, Ponce will start on the 22nd.

Coach Kim has won nine games and gone a few times, but has not won 10. "I asked because he is the team's ace," he said. "If he is pushed to the next mound, (the rotation) will be mixed up." That's why he said he would pull it off."



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.