The reason why I asked Lee Jae-won to smash the second division is that the standard for success in the first division of the second division batter seen by Yum-ryang is
Jun 08, 2025
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LG Twins manager Yeom Kyung-yeop told Lee Jae-won, who joined Sangmu, why he said, `Crash the 2nd Army.'
Lee Jae-won, a promising right-handed pitcher of LG, showed off his strength to hit as many as three home runs in a Futures League game against Samsung on the 7th. He had a batting average of 372 (42 hits in 113 times at bat) with 14 homers and 41 RBIs in 28 games through Sunday. Despite not playing enough games due to thigh injury, he has come up to the second place in homers.
Lee Jae-won is a promising right-handed slugger who graduated from Seoul High School and joined LG in the 17th place in the second round in 2018. Lee Jae-won, who won the Futures Home Run King with 13 in 2020, hit 16 home runs in the first half of 2021 and played in the first division in the second half, but became the Futures Home Run King for the second consecutive year.
Lee Jae-won, who joined Sangmu in June last year, hit a batting average of 292 (49 hits in 168 at-bats) with 14 homers and 42 RBIs, but he has already hit a home run last year this season, showing a tremendous pace.
Before the game against the Kiwoom Heroes at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 8th, LG manager Yeom said his performance reference point for second-tier players to succeed in the first team, with a batting average of more than 350.
Coach Yeom said, `In the past, Choi Hyung-woo and Koo Ja-wook had a batting average of more than 350 in the second division and occupied the second division. So, when I went to Sangmu, I told Lee Jae-won to smash the 2nd Army, and "Hitting more than 350% in the 2nd Army is a contact ability. It becomes a contact, so you can hit a high batting average. Then you can adapt to some extent even in the first team. That's how much the chances of success increase."
Choi Hyung-woo, the center hitter of the KIA Tigers, was released by Samsung after the 2005 season and joined the police. In 2007, he ranked first in the second division Northern League batting average (0.391), the most hits (128 hits), the first in homers (22), and the first in RBIs (76 RBIs), and then joined Samsung again and became a legend.
In the case of Koo Ja-wook of the Samsung Lions, he played in 75 games at Sangmu in 2014, hitting 357 (86 hits in 241) with three home runs and 48 RBIs, and started playing in the first team in 2015 and became a central hitter for Samsung.
This season, there are many hitters who are batting more than 350 due to the pitching wind in the Futures League.
As of the 7th, Sangmu's Ryu Hyun-in (KT) is the No. 1 hitting player, with a batting average of 433. The second-ranked Sangmu Han Dong-hee (Lotte) is also ranked 6th, with 429 percent for Hyun Won-hoe of SSG Landers, 382 percent for KIA Tigers, 379 percent for Yoon Joon-ho (Doosan), and 376 percent for Kim Jae-sang (Samsung).
Lee Jae-won will return to LG after being discharged from the military in December. I wonder how Sangmu players, including Lee Jae-won, who are doing well this season, will return to their original team next season after being discharged from the military.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
