Hanwha will be higher when he is discharged from the military, right? The wind came to reality...I'm here to support the winning team. It's an environment that's as big as baseball

Aug 19, 2025

Hanwha will be higher when he is discharged from the military, right? The wind came to reality...I'm here to support the winning team. It's an environment that's as big as baseball
Hanwha Eagles Kang Jae-min. Photo courtesy = Hanwha Eagles



Hanwha Eagles will welcome a welcome supporter at the end of the season.

Kang Jae-min (28, Hanwha Eagles) was discharged from the military on the 12th.

Nominated by Hanwha in the second round of the 2020 Rookie Draft (38th overall), he stood tall as a must-win group with 14 holds from his first year. By 2023, he had 46 holds, serving as a key bullpen agent for Hanwha.




After developing elbow pain in September 2023, he eventually underwent reconstruction of the medial collateral ligament. It took about a year of rehabilitation, and I joined the active duty in February 2024.

He served as an assistant at the boot camp of the 5th Division in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi-do, and stood on the mound at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 7th. He gathered his vacation well and went on a last-year vacation, and while building his body in Seosan, he played live pitching in front of Hanwha coach Kim Kyung-moon.

He threw a total of 37 pitches against Son Ah-seop, who was out due to a side injury at the time, and Lee Jae-won and Lee Jin-young. The average fastball speed was 141 kilometers. He also mixed sliders and changeups to check his pitching sense.




Coach Kim, who watched Kang Jae-min's pitching, said "It was better than I thought. Still, the practice and the game are different, so there is a pitcher who is getting tired after throwing a few games in the second division, so I think it would be good to join then."

Kang Jae-min was also "It was the second live pitch, and the balance was better than the first time." I also talked to Yang Sang-moon, the pitching coach, and he said he was okay in general. He said to pay a little more attention to the angle of falling when throwing a two-seam ball. He said, "I'm trying to focus on the breaking ball and prepare while rebuilding my body in Seosan."

Hanwha will be higher when he is discharged from the military, right? The wind came to reality...I'm here to support the winning team. It's an environment that's as big as baseball
Coach Yang Sang-moon talking to Kang Jae-min (left) of the Hanwha Eagles. Photo courtesy = Hanwha Eagles
After briefly returning to the unit on the 8th, he was discharged from the military on the 12th and joined the team again.




The army has been making a good body. Kang Jae-min "I got a lot of help because there were many people who liked baseball"When I had a trainee, I didn't have enough time, but I worked out at the weight center whenever I had time. I was able to run a lot, so I worked hard" he said.

Hanwha finished the season in ninth place in 2023, when Kang Jae-min was about to serve in the military. From 2020 to 2022, when Kang Jae-min joined the team, he was at the bottom. Kang Jae-min remembered 'lower rank'Hanhwa was erased. This season, Hanwha is competing for the lead.

Kang Jae-min said, `I was watching the club's YouTube a while ago, and in an interview before I joined the military, `By the time I'm discharged, I'll be doing well on high ground.' `Last year, I only watched records, but this year, my friends living with me played baseball at 6:30 p.m. Of course, I also felt good because it was one of the big goals for Hanwha to perform well as Hanwha's affiliation. I hope it's in thereIt also occurred to me that ' Still, rather than being impatient, I felt strongly that I wanted to be of help even a little bit."

Hanwha will be higher when he is discharged from the military, right? The wind came to reality...I'm here to support the winning team. It's an environment that's as big as baseball
Hanwha Eagles Kang Jae-min. Photo courtesy = Hanwha Eagles
Hanwha's bullpen, which has boasted 'iron wall' throughout this season, has shown a little tiredness recently. If Kang Jae-min shows his appearance before joining the military, it will be even more breathtaking. Kang Jae-min "I received a lot of opportunities in the four years since I joined the company, but I don't think I paid back much in the last two years. I prepared it thinking that I wanted to erase that image"I talked to my brothers before I went to the army because I was a little sensitive in the process of preparing for the game." He said it would be good to take a break, but it was good to see baseball from a different perspective. It can be said that there is no place to run now, but on the contrary, an environment where only real baseball can be played has been created. Now that I have no excuse to join the military, I will focus on baseball and prepare well to produce good results"He expressed his determination.



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.