Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigns...Cho Sung-hwan's acting system

Jun 02, 2025

Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigns...Cho Sung-hwan's acting system
Dusan-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 13th. Manager Lee Seung-yeop is watching the game. Daejeon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025..May 13/






Doosan Bears manager Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigned on the 2nd. He dropped his baton after 58 games in this season.

Manager Lee Seung-yeop expressed his intention to resign voluntarily to the club, and the club reportedly accepted it. Manager Lee signed a three-year contract with Doosan for a total of 1.8 billion won ahead of the 2023 season. It was the highest treatment ever for a new coach, but he was forced to leave in disgrace.

A Doosan official said, `Thank you for the hard work of coach Lee Seung-yeop who led the team for three seasonsManager Lee Seung-yeop took responsibility for his poor performance this season and made the decision to renew the team's atmosphere. The club accepted it after consideration" he said.




After manager Lee took office, Doosan entered the fall baseball for the second consecutive year, ranking fifth in 2023 and fourth in 2024. However, he was eliminated in just one game when he lost 9-14 in the first round of the wild card decision against the NC Dinos in 2023, and last year, he was shocked by being eliminated in all two games against KT Wiz. Since the introduction of the wild card game in 2015, he has been humiliated by the elimination of the fourth-place team for the first time in history.

Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigns...Cho Sung-hwan's acting system
Dusan-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 13th. Manager Lee Seung-yeop is watching the game. Daejeon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025..May 13/



Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigns...Cho Sung-hwan's acting system
The KBO League KT Wiz and Doosan Bears match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 29th. Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop is in thought at the bottom of the seventh inning when he was being dragged 11 to 2. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.29/



Manager Lee prepared for the season by pledging to rebound this year. Park Jung-won, the owner of Doosan Group, visited Miyazaki, Japan, the spring camp training site, not to play baseball to rank fourth or fifth. "Please play Bears-like baseball to the best of your passion..." he said, urging the team to work harder.

However, contrary to expectations, Doosan is in ninth place with 23 wins, 32 losses and 3 draws for the season as of the 2nd. Amid the all-time fierce mid-range competition, the pace was gradually falling as it was three games apart from the eighth-ranked NC Dinos.




It seems that the decisive hit was the losing series against the Kiwoom Heroes, the lowest team in the league with a 20% winning rate. Doosan won the first game of the series against Kiwoom 9-4 on the 30th of last month, but suffered a humiliating 0-1 defeat for two consecutive days in the game on the 31st and 1st of last month. In the end, coach Lee decided to voluntarily resign after the series with Kiwoom.

Meanwhile, quality control (QC) coach Cho Sung-hwan will take over as acting coach from the match against KIA in Jamsil on the 3rd.

Doosan manager Lee Seung-yeop voluntarily resigns...Cho Sung-hwan's acting system
Dusan manager Lee Seung-yeop preparing for the game.







This article was translated by Naver AI translator.