We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.

Jul 18, 2025

We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.
photo courtesy of Lotte Giants



We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.
photo courtesy of Lotte Giants
We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.
Lotte won the game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd with a score of 9-6. Yoon Sung-bin and Kim Tae-hyung share the joy of victory. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/
Lotte Giants Yoon Sung-bin (26) has been put to the test of a true revival.

On the 17th, Lotte put Yoon Sung-bin in the first team along with three starting pitchers including Gamboa, Park Se-woong and Davidson, catcher Cho In-geun and outfielder Yoon Dong-hee.

It is the first entry adjustment since the All-Star break. This is the result of cutting all 10 teams.




Starting pitchers as well as Information Geun and Yoon Dong-hee are also players who were scheduled to call up the first team. They are also key players by position in the first-team squad drawn by head coach Kim Tae-hyung.

The fact that Yoon Sung-bin was named here is significant. As a starter in the first half of the year, he gained experience in the first division little by little with the bullpen. It was a process of carefully adjusting myself. He gained experience of success little by little while going back and forth between the 1st and 2nd armies. He overcame the past of being used as a substitute starter expecting "just five innings somehow" and went through a realignment to the bullpen.

Now his career as a first-team pitcher begins again. Yoon Sung-bin joined Lotte in 2017 as the first designated player. It is the first season that Yoon Sung-bin, who was not easy to pitch one game in one season since his debut in his second year as a starter, will be appointed to the first team in earnest.




We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.
After a game between Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd, Lotte Yoon Sung-bin is heading to the dugout after pitching in the top of the seventh inning. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/
Lotte manager Kim Tae-hyung, who met at Jamsil Stadium on the same day, expressed his intention to start with 'Bridge' regarding the use of Yoon Sung-bin. It is the role of holding out the long man, or the fifth to sixth innings, when the starting pitcher goes down early. Until now, Kim Kang-hyun and Kim Sang-soo have mainly been in charge.

"Kim Kang-hyun and Kim Sang-soo have ball control, and especially Kim Sang-soo has a lot of experience. However, he can't win (a match against a batter) because he's not being arrested. Yoon Sung-bin can give a walk, but he is a pitcher who can strike out with ball power. If the situation arises, I will try it out and check it again."

Yoon Sung-bin was a promising player enough to knock on the Major League during his high school days in Busan. Although it is 1m97 in the official profile, it may have grown to about 2m now given the appearance of the head crossing the advertising surface at the time of the broadcast interview. The fastball in the late 150km, which falls from an overwhelming height, is chillingly attractive.




We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.
photo courtesy of Lotte Giants
Since he pitched in 18 games (10 starts) in 2018, he has become a pitcher who is rarely seen in the first team with 2-5 losses and a 6.36 ERA. However, he appeared in the first division as a starter last year when head coach Kim Tae-hyung took office, and was called back by the first division when he showed good performance in the Futures League again this year.

However, he showed the worst difficulty with nine runs in one inning against the LG Twins on May 20. Six walks were painful than four hits.

Manager Kim Tae-hyung tried to revive Yoon Sung-bin's momentum, who handled Park Hae-min with three strikeouts in the first inning against LG. At that time, Yoon Sung-bin struck out swinging by putting in 156-157 kilometers of fastballs in succession.

We're ready! The second half of the year → 1m97 Giants Now it's time to show...A first-team registered master's inner walk? But it becomes a ball.
Lotte Yoon Sung-bin is pitching hard in the top of the seventh inning against Samsung and Lotte at Sajik Baseball Stadium in Busan on the 22nd. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.06.22/
Since then, he has steadily gained experience as a bullpen in the Futures, and in June, he came back to the first team and added two scoreless innings in four games and two ⅔. In particular, he also enjoyed the joy of becoming a winning pitcher for the first time in 2,462 days against the Samsung Lions on June 22.

Coach Kim Tae-hyung is a style that emphasizes the charm of fastballs as long as he has basic control. The must-win group was made up of Choi Jun-yong and Jung Cheol-won, and Lee Min-seok was added to the starting team.

Can it be said that Yoon Sung-bin broke the egg. All the preparations are complete. Now it's Yoon Sung-bin's turn to show.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.