Yoon Dong-hee is coming right away, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young are still here? When can we see Lotte's Yoon Gon or Hwang Son in full?

Jul 16, 2025

Yoon Dong-hee is coming right away, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young are still here? When can we see Lotte's Yoon Gon or Hwang Son in full?
Lotte-Kium match held at Gocheok Sky Dome in Seoul on the 29th. Yoon Dong-hee is delighted after hitting an RBI double in the top of the seventh inning with one out and runners on second base. Gocheok = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.4.29/



Yoon Dong-hee is coming right away, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young are still here? When can we see Lotte's Yoon Gon or Hwang Son in full?
The game between the Lotte Giants and the LG Twins at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 1st. Lotte's Ko Seung-min is cheering after hitting a timely hit with two outs and runners on the first and second bases in the bottom of the third inning. Busan = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.07.01/
Yoon Dong-hee is coming right away, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young are still here? When can we see Lotte's Yoon Gon or Hwang Son in full?
The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the Lotte Giants at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 24th. Lotte's Son Ho-young is cheering after hitting a hit with no outs and first base in the top of the seventh inning. Daejeon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.05.24/
He was a five-member team that emerged as the mainstay of the lineup in a year. The trust of the head coach remains, but the body rarely listens.

Last year, Lotte Giants was praised for the appearance of `Yoon Dong-hee, Ko Seung-min, Na Seung-yup, Hwang Sung-bin, Son Ho-young' and `The batting rebuild is over.' Except for Hwang Seong-bin, who has a batting average of more than 300, all five players have the potential of more than 20 home runs. From the youngest Yoon Dong-hee (22), who is in his fourth year of debut, to Son Ho-young (31), who is a middle-aged player, he has various years and ages, but he also has strong best friend chemistry.

But all of them are staggering all at once in just one year. None of them played in the All-Star Game. Yoon Dong-hee and Ko Seung-min were listed as the best 12, but both players left due to injuries and were replaced by other players.




When it comes to going up and down, Na Seung-yeop is the most common case of going back and forth between heaven and hell. He showed off his presence as the next-generation big guns first baseman by hitting seven home runs until April, but he collapsed sharply with a batting average of only 195 for a month in May. At the beginning of June, he was eliminated from the first team, reorganized himself in the second team, and then joined the first team again in late June, but he has yet to show a clear rebound and remains at a batting average of .230.

Yoon Dong-hee is coming right away, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young are still here? When can we see Lotte's Yoon Gon or Hwang Son in full?
Lotte-KIA match held at Kia Champions Field in Gwangju on the 4th. Na Seung-yeop hits a hit in the top of the seventh inning with one out and a runner on the first base. Gwangju = Reporter Jeong Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.7.4/
Ko Seung-min's injury is a headache. By May, he had an impressive performance in offense and defense with a batting average of more than 300. Ko Seung-min's best batting order is No. 2, which head coach Kim Tae-hyung picked, but he went between cleanups and No. 6-7 depending on the needs of the team. In addition to the second base, which is the main position, the position also sees the outfield, and since June, he has played a built-in first baseman. While there are infield substitute resources such as Han Tae-yang and Park Chan-hyung in the team, there is no right first baseman to replace Na Seung-yeop and Jung Hoon.

He suffered throughout the season from a chronic knee injury. Although he was thrilled to play in his first All-Star Game in seven years since his debut, he left on the 2nd due to an injury to his abdominal muscles, delaying him to the next opportunity.




Yoon Dong-hee also overcame a severe slump at the beginning of the season and hit his first home run of Monster Wall, Daejeon's new stadium, and hit a batting average of 300 until June. However, he fell out due to thigh pain in early June, and was diagnosed with muscle damage to the left anterior femur and left. After committing to rehabilitation for a month, he participated in the Futures League in July and improved his sense of practice.

Despite suffering a finger injury at the beginning of the season, Hwang Sung-bin played the role of the first batter center fielder, which was established last year. He has a batting average of 314 this season and an on-base percentage of 362, similar to that of the previous season. However, he suffered a fracture in his left heavy bone during the first base head-first sliding process in early May, and returned to the first team only on July 8 after about two months of rehabilitation.

Son Ho-young is struggling the most, facing the worst season of the five. Injuries, sluggishness and defense instability all came at once this season.




He has no slugging power that shot 18 home runs last year, and is sluggish with a batting average of 253 OPS of 0.613. Despite playing in just 210 at-bats, he has nine double plays, ranking second in the team after Reyes (15). 'No. 1 double play (87 in the first half)' is the one who created Lotte's notoriety.

In defense, he made as many as 10 mistakes and completely lost his sense of stability. Coach Kim Tae-hyung was considerate, such as transferring his position to a more comfortable second baseman, but he left due to injury in the process.

He also has a lot of injuries. He took a break for more than two weeks in early April due to damage to his internal abdominal muscles, and although he played a role in enduring sluggishness for two months, he finally left on June 16 due to a finger muscle injury. At that time, it was said that it needed two to three weeks, but the period has been getting longer during the rehabilitation process since then.

Yoon Dong-hee is coming right away, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young are still here? When can we see Lotte's Yoon Gon or Hwang Son in full?
The game between Doosan and Lotte held at Busan Sajik Baseball Stadium on the 8th, and Lotte Hwang Sung-bin is happy to advance to the base with an infield hit in the bottom of the first inning. Busan = Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.07.08/
Hwang Sung-bin and Na Seung-yeop returned to the first team at the end of the first half, and Yoon Dong-hee is expected to return to the first team at the beginning of the second half, but Ko Seung-min and Son Ho-young still need more time.

At the beginning of the second half of the year, Lotte club agonized over whether Ko Seung-min would also register for the first team, but will be as conservative as possible in injury' has decided to maintain its stance this season. Ko Seung-min, who is currently on the injured list, will play the Futures game to improve his sense of play and return to the first team as soon as possible.

Son Ho-young is also returning later than scheduled. Head coach Kim Tae-hyung said, `Yoon Dong-hee seems to be able to return to the first division at the beginning of the second half, but Son Ho-young still needs more time. I think it will be about a week later (than the opening of the second half)." It is expected to examine whether to register for the first team or not until late July.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.