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KIA-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 26th. Stone, who is out of the starting lineup, is watching the game from the dugout. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.6.26/ |
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Did you bring a player to retire?
A house that works well, no matter what it does, it works well. A house that can't work gets twisted even if it does the same thing. It is about foreign hitters of Hanwha Eagles and Kiwoom Heroes.
The lowest-ranked Kiwoom broke up with Stone, a foreign hitter who spent six weeks as a substitute due to the injury of Cardinez. As a batter with 14 home runs in the U.S. Major League, he expected it to help the weak central lineup, but the reality was terrible. With a batting average of 241, two homers and 15 RBIs in 22 games, he hit a home run that he had not hit so well, in the last game against the Samsung Lions on Tuesday after confirming the expiration of his contract. As you can see from the enormous muscular build, the power was great. But it's also meaningful to hit the ball, and it didn't make any contact at all. He struck out 24 in 93 at-bats. The on-base percentage is 280 percent. I couldn't help but place it in the center, but it was frustrating to lose all the chances.
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The game between Kiwoom and SSG at Gocheok Dome in Seoul on the 19th. Kiwoom Stone, who is striking out in the ninth inning. Gocheok =Reporter Song Jeong-heon@sportschosun.com/2025.06.19/ |
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What's even more surprising is that the final game at Kiwoom was his last professional game. Now the thirty-year-old suddenly announced his retirement. It's been more than a decade of baseball, and ending your career would have been done after a lot of consideration. In other words, it was very likely that he had given up his lingering feelings about his career to some extent before coming to Kiwoom. It may be interpreted as a good way to say let's burn the last flame in Korea, but it may be said that a player has already organized his thoughts on baseball to some extent.
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The Kiwoom-SSG match to be held at Gocheok Dome in Seoul on the 19th. Kiwoom Stone Garrett warming up with catch ball. Gocheok = Song Jeong-heon Reporter songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.19/ |
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It can only be interpreted that Kiwoom lacked a pioneering plan to see foreign players in the lowest performance. Of course, Kiwoom did not expect to make such a choice. We introduced the moment when they were also embarrassed, saying, "'If you're well prepared, there's a possibility that you'll be together next year as well.'" One baseball player even made a laughable joke, saying, `Since you can't do this in the KBO league, not in the Major League, did the player suddenly retire due to a breakdown in his mind?'
As a matter of fact, he took out two cards of unconventional foreign hitters this season, Puig-Cardines. Both of those players were "devastated" and the entire season was twisted, but even the short-term substitute recruitment was ruined, so foreign farming this year has no choice but to fail.
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The Hanwha-KT match held at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 20th. Liberato is happy after hitting a single with no outs in the top of the ninth inning. Suwon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.20/ |
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"Do you think it's easy to pick a player?" he may protest, but if you look at the leader Hanwha, you can't say that. Hanwha did not panic despite the unexpected injury of foreign hitter Floral and recruited a high-quality hitter named Liberato. One step further, as Liberato performed better than expected, he threw a game-changer to completely replace Floral with Liberato at the start of the second half. Riverato received a 'regular' business card and hit three times in two consecutive games. As such, Hanwha has made thorough preparations for various situations.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.