Our team is good at trading, right? Smiling Steel Magic → The reason for going to the 2nd Army of the New Aces with 8 wins is

Jun 11, 2025

Our team is good at trading, right? Smiling Steel Magic → The reason for going to the 2nd Army of the New Aces with 8 wins is
KT manager Lee Kang-chul talks 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/



Our team is good at trading, right? Smiling Steel Magic → The reason for going to the 2nd Army of the New Aces with 8 wins is
KT starter Oh Won-seok is pitching hard in a game between KT and Hanwha at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 4th. Daejeon = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.04/
"I think our team is really good at trading. It's all thanks to the general manager. You're good at picking foreigners…"

They are tying for fourth place. KT Wiz's biggest strength is its solid starting lineup.

This year is different from previous years when he made a turnaround since the summer. He has been consistent since the beginning of the season. After 4 wins and 3 losses in March, 12 wins and 11 losses in April, and 14 wins and 11 losses and 2 draws in May, he finally caught up with the Lotte Giants by recording 4 wins and 4 losses in June.




At the center is Oh Won-seok, who is showing off his new native ace-class presence. He scored three runs in six innings against Lotte the previous day and his seventh quality start this season (more than six innings and less than three earned runs) to win his eighth game. He is tied for second place with multiple wins and has a whopping 2.93 ERA.

He was excluded from the first-team entry shortly after posting eight wins. It's not an injury, it's a planned break from before. After Ko Young-pyo and So Hyung-joon, it is Oh Won-seok's turn. He will return to the first team in 10 days.

Our team is good at trading, right? Smiling Steel Magic → The reason for going to the 2nd Army of the New Aces with 8 wins is
KT starter Oh Won-seok is pitching hard in a game between KT and Hanwha at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 4th. Daejeon = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.04/
It was good enough to be considered as 'post Kim Kwang-hyun', but this year, when he met coach Lee Kang-chul, 'pitcher trainer', it changed again. KT manager Lee Kang-chul, who met at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 11th, said "(Oh) Won-seok is throwing more comfortably than before."," he said with a big smile.




Oh Won-seok was hired as a trade with Kim Min, a must-win team, last winter. Oh Won-seok, who played in 29 games last year, starting and 121 ⅓ innings with a 6-9 record and a 5.03 ERA with one hold, has completely changed this year.

"The pitching form has become simpler than before. Although he lost the game against Hanwha (June 4, four runs in six ⅔ innings), didn't he strike out 10 at the time. The ball was really good. Best ball I've ever thrown."

Manager Lee Kang-chul said, `It's not a show-off, but our starting pitcher is good. When good pitchers are together, they learn from each other. Such synergies are clearly needed. Probably Hanwha would like that kind of atmosphere, he said. "Other pitchers throw well, so wouldn't I want to throw well?" It is a competition in good faith, and it seems that Oh Won-seok is absorbing all the advantages of Cho Hyung-joon."




Our team is good at trading, right? Smiling Steel Magic → The reason for going to the 2nd Army of the New Aces with 8 wins is
The KT Junghoon Lee is hitting the game between KT and Hanwha at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 4th. Daejeon = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.04/
In addition to Oh Won-seok, KT is considered a team that is particularly good at trading. In the previous day's match against Lotte, Lotte Junghoon Lee Oh Yoon-seok and Lee Ho-yeon combined for six hits, six runs and three RBIs, including one home run. Junghoon Lee, which failed to find a place at Lotte, has been reborn as a .300 hitter (7 hits in 23 at-bats, 304 leis) since moving to KT.

In response, head coach Lee Kang-chul said "Our general manager, Do-hyun, is good. He's good at picking mercenaries, and the leader brought the Junghoon Lee (the players he needs) just right. I really appreciate it. Sincerely" he reiterated.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.