King Hold's Forgotten Struggle. The 147km fighting spirit is S-zone fly → strikeout → strikeout. the first three-way withdrawal. When is the first team opportunity?
Jun 10, 2025
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Jung Woo-young took the mound in a Futures League game against the Goyang Heroes at LG Champions Field in Icheon on the 10th and neatly stopped one inning with no hits, two strikeouts and no runs.
Jung Woo-young, who went all the way to the U.S. in the offseason to raise his ball speed and find his form, exposed his ball control anxiety in the exhibition game and is eventually in the process of establishing his form by training in the second division.
There has been no real pitching for nearly two months since the match against Doosan on April 2, but he has been playing in the real game recently.
On May 30, he won the hold by allowing one hit and one out in one inning against Doosan, and on the 3rd, he allowed two hits, one walk, one strikeout, and one run (non-earned) in ⅔ innings against Goyang. In the match against SSG on the 7th, he recorded a hold with stable pitching with one hit, no four outs, two strikeouts and no runs in one ⅔ inning.
On this day, he showed stability in his control and did not send out runners for the first time, but ended up with three outs. Jung Woo-young, who took the mound in the top of the fourth inning with a 2-1 lead, easily cooked Goyang's right-handed batters.
He threw the third high slider in the 2S' advantageous count against Kim Dong-heon, the first seven, and handled it with a fly to left field. No. 8 Yeo Dong-wook struck out swinging with a fighting spirit in the middle in the advantageous count of 1B2S. And No. 9 Kwon Hyuk-bin also sprayed a slider in the middle of the fourth pitch in 1B2S to strike out the rookie.
The number of pitches was 17. He sprayed 14 pitching sims and 3 sliders, and the maximum speed of pitching sim was 147km. Except that the first pitch thrown to Kwon Hyuk-bin went deep into the body, almost all of the balls seem to have found stability toward the strike zone.
This is Jung Woo-young, who has shown stability in the last four games. In four ⅓ innings, he has four hits, one walk, five strikeouts, and one run (non-earned) with an ERA of 0.00.
Jung Woo-young was an intermediate pitching agent representing LG. Jung Woo-young, who won the Rookie of the Year award with 4 wins, 6 losses, 1 save and 16 holds in 2019, gradually elevated his status as a must-winner by recording 20 holds in 2020 and 27 holds in 2021, and by bulk-up in 2022, he raised his speed to up to 157km, winning the hold king with 35 holds. However, as he tried to fix the slow quick motion, which was pointed out as a weakness, his speed fell, and his performance fell to 5 wins, 6 losses and 11 holds in 2023 and 2 wins, 1 loss and 3 holds last year. In particular, the average ERA, which was 2.64 in 2022, increased to 4.70 in 2023 and 4.76 last year, showing a lack of stability.
In the end, Jung Woo-young moved to the U.S. after last season to correct his pitching form and started the hopeful 2025 season, but he opened in the second division as he showed difficulty in controlling the ball in the exhibition game.
Will Jung Woo-young, who has recently started to show stability in practice after a long training process, be seen in the first team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
