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| NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. Um Sang-baek, who allowed a timely hit to Kim Joo-won with two outs and runners on first and second bases in the top of the fourth inning, is being replaced. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.3/ |
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| NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. Um Sang-baek, who allowed a timely hit to Kim Joo-won with two outs and runners on first and second bases in the top of the fourth inning, is being replaced. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.3/ |
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| NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. Um Sang-baek, who allowed a timely hit to Kim Joo-won with two outs and runners on first and second bases in the top of the fourth inning, is regretting. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.3/ |
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It is not easy to live up to the four-year 7.8 billion won. However, it is not easy to be full of disappointment like this.
The hearts of Hanwha Eagles fans looking at the '78 billion FA' Um Sang-baek have been burned down for a long time. He was selected as the fourth starter after Ponce, Twice, and Ryu Hyun-jin this season, and has been steadily starting since the opening.
As he is a player who has paid a lot of money, the club is also desperate to save and spend it. However, it is time for the first half to end, and Um Sang-baek has started a total of 14 games and is 1-6 with a 6.23 ERA.
His performance is not much different from that of Kim Yoon-ha (0-10). What would happen if two players traded teams? This is the part that makes you imagine that.
Um Sang-baek's slump continued in the match against the NC Dinos in Daejeon on the 3rd. He failed to fill the fourth inning and was replaced after allowing five hits, four outs, three runs and 73 pitches in three ⅔ innings. Considering that Hanwha and NC had a bloody battle in the 11th inning of extra time, Hanwha had eight pitchers and NC had nine pitchers at full capacity, the sluggishness of Um Sang-baek is painful. It was a Friday game, but Hanwha, which competes for first place, cannot give up such a game.
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| The NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 3rd. Um Sang-baek, who allowed consecutive hits from the 1st inning, is regretful. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.3/ |
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Expectations for this year's Um Sang-baek were 'a sense of stability' itself. The player himself is well aware of it. Therefore, with the impression of wearing the Hanwha uniform "I will be responsible for as many innings as possible."It was even said.
The reality is only 60 ⅔ innings (37th overall in innings) this season. He only exceeded five innings twice, and although he recorded a quality start (more than six innings and less than three earned runs), he stopped in just six innings.
Even if foreign pitchers such as SSG White (13 games, 74 ⅔ innings) or Ryu Hyun-jin (14 games, 75 innings), or equivalent players, they have fewer innings than Moon Dong-joo (13 games, 67 innings) who is his junior and played one less game.
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| The game between Hanwha and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 18th, and Hanwha Um Sang-baek, with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the bottom of the second inning, are regretful as he gave up the first three-run home run to Lotte Park Jae-yeop. Busan = Reporter's book @sportschosun.com/2025.06.18/ |
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Samsung's Lee Seung-hyun (14 games and 60 ⅓ innings) is the only player with similar number of games and innings, and Lee Seung-hyun is a fifth-year pitcher with an annual salary of 120 million won this year. On the other hand, Um Sang-baek is a 29-year-old FA pitcher who receives an annual salary of 900 million won this year and 7.8 billion won over four years.
This is why Hanwha's No. 1 race this year is called 'mystery'. FA (Thumbs up, Shim Woo-joon, An Chi-hong) who have invested boldly are sluggish, and Chae Eun-sung is not satisfied either. Noh Si-hwan also falls short of expectations. If you lean on the power of Ponce-Wai's strongest foreign player, one-two punch, you will be concerned about the second half.
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| NC-Hanwha match held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 1st. Director Kim Kyung-moon of Hanwha. Daejeon = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.1/ |
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What does Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon think. Asked about Um Sang-baek's poor performance the previous day, head coach Kim Kyung-moon, who met at Gocheok Sky Dome on the 4th, said, `The pitching was not bad…" he opened his mouth.
"We don't have enough points right now, so we just changed it a little faster."
Currently, it is unlikely that the All-Star break will be used as a turning point to change roles such as bullpen. Will Um Sang-baek be able to repay the coach's unwavering trust.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
