Lee Seung-yeop resigned in shock. Why now? Was the 2nd consecutive Youngbong defeat to the last place team the final shot

Jun 02, 2025

Lee Seung-yeop resigned in shock. Why now? Was the 2nd consecutive Youngbong defeat to the last place team the final shot
Dusan won the game between LG and Doosan 5-2 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 7th. Director Lee Seung-yeop greets his fans. Jamsil= Reporter wook@sportschosun.com/2025.05.07/



Everything is grades and timing.

Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yeop resigned voluntarily. Doosan released a press release on the afternoon of the 2nd and officially announced the voluntary resignation of manager Lee Seung-yeop. According to the club, manager Lee expressed his intention to resign voluntarily, and the club accepted it. From the match against the KIA Tigers in Jamsil on the 3rd, coach Cho Sung-hwan QC will take over as acting manager for Doosan. Coach Lee Seung-yeop ended up leaving the team without completing the last one of the three years of his contract.

As of the 2nd, Doosan is ranked 9th with 23 wins, 3 draws, and 32 losses and a winning rate of 0.418. Top and middle teams are competing closely for rankings, but Doosan is a step away from this point. It is a tight ranking battle within one or two games from LG in 1st place to NC in 8th place, and Doosan is slightly different from NC in 8th place by three games.




Lee Seung-yeop resigned in shock. Why now? Was the 2nd consecutive Youngbong defeat to the last place team the final shot
Dusan-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 24th. Doosan won the game 9-3. Director Lee Seung-yeop is greeting the spectator. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.24/
Lee Seung-yeop, who started with a shaky hunch after losing two consecutive regular season opening games against SSG Landers, failed to rebound until the end. At one point, it rose to fourth and fifth place, but it has been at the bottom of the list for the past month. The 50% win rate was too much.

In a precarious situation, he seemed to change the atmosphere by sweeping the three consecutive series against the Hanwha Eagles, who were on the rise in the away game in Daejeon on May 13-15. The ranking also went up from 9th to 7th. However, he was swept away in an away series against the KIA Tigers that weekend and became a road-amitabul.

Coach Lee Seung-yeop's decisive hit, which continued to repeat the loosing series since then, was the away series at Gocheok last weekend. Doosan, which won 9-4 on the first day of the three consecutive games, lost 0-1 the next day and the third day in a row.




Lee Seung-yeop resigned in shock. Why now? Was the 2nd consecutive Youngbong defeat to the last place team the final shot
Coach Lee Seung-yeop of Doosan is talking with reporters at the game between Doosan and KT at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 28th. Suwon = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.05.28/
Kiwoom is the weakest team this season, as it has lost 11 consecutive games, the most since its foundation, before meeting Doosan. He is the only last-place player with a 20% winning rate. Although the opponent's foreign one-two punch took the mound, Doosan was humiliated by 20 scoreless innings, including two games. It was disastrous that he showed this level of performance against the last-place team, not against other teams.

On top of that, Raul Alcantara was the starting pitcher for the last game of the series against Kiwoom. A foreign pitcher who played for Doosan. When he broke up due to injury last year, he even heard the sound of 'eat and run', and Doosan's pride was further hurt as such a player wore the opposing team's uniform and made Doosan hitters spin their bats.

Even when the strange atmosphere began to circulate, the second consecutive defeat against Kiwoom was decisive. Not everything is decided by the director alone, but in the end, the director has no choice but to take on the responsible role.






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.