It's the 5th time this year! Former major leaguer who filled an annual salary of 1.4 billion won → Quick hook again...The head coach, who has a long way to go, is burning up.

Aug 15, 2025

It's the 5th time this year! Former major leaguer who filled an annual salary of 1.4 billion won → Quick hook again...The head coach, who has a long way to go, is burning up.
The match between NC and Hanwha at Changwon NC Park on the 15th. NC Logan pitching. Changwon = Reporter Song Jeong-heon @sportschosun.com/2025.08.15/



It's the 5th time this year! Former major leaguer who filled an annual salary of 1.4 billion won → Quick hook again...The head coach, who has a long way to go, is burning up.
The match between NC and Hanwha at Changwon NC Park on the 15th. NC Logan pitching. Changwon = Reporter Song Jeong-heon @sportschosun.com/2025.08.15/
It's the 5th time this year! Former major leaguer who filled an annual salary of 1.4 billion won → Quick hook again...The head coach, who has a long way to go, is burning up.
photo courtesy of NC Dinos
August also turned the halfway point, but only 6 wins. The grades are not good, but the ups and downs are severe. Major leaguers' career is rarely working on the Korean stage.

NC Dinos Logan started in Game 1 of the weekend series against the Hanwha Eagles at Changwon NC Park on the 15th. However, he was replaced in four ⅓ innings without completing the fifth inning.

Disappointing pitching with eight hits, four four outs and five runs against 23 batters. Despite not completing the fifth inning, the number of pitches reached 103. He struggled and managed to endure it, but it collapsed in the top of the fifth inning.




The start was good for NC. He allowed a hit to Liberato in the top of the first inning, but he was out while trying to steal second base while a wild pitch came out, and the inning ended with three batters. Rather, NC won two points first.

But Logan said every episode was a nightmare. In the second inning, Hanwha Chae Eun-sung caught an infield hit on the eighth base and Lee Jin-young caught a fly ball to center field on the eighth base. In An Chi-hong's at-bat, he threw a wild pitch and walked a walk. At least, he managed to not lose a point by dealing with Choi Jae-hoon's ground ball.

However, after one out in the third inning, Hanwha Son Ah-seop Liberato's consecutive hits made it to first and third base, and Moon Hyun-bin's sacrifice fly gave up his first run.




It's the 5th time this year! Former major leaguer who filled an annual salary of 1.4 billion won → Quick hook again...The head coach, who has a long way to go, is burning up.
A match between NC and Hanwha at Changwon NC Park on the 15th. NC Logan pitching as a starter. Changwon = Reporter Song Jeong-heon @sportschosun.com/2025.08.15/
In the fourth inning, after one out, Lee Jin-young and Ahn Chi-hong's consecutive hits added a ball that hit Choi Jae-hoon's body, and loaded the bases with one out. Still, Shim Woo-joon's well-hit ball went to the front of the third baseman, who was guarding the third base line, and handled it with a 5-1 double play, overcoming the crisis once again.

That was the end of the fluke. After one out in the fifth inning, Liberato's walk, Moon Hyun-bin's hit, and Roh Si-hwan's body hit the bases loaded with one out again.Here, Chae Eun-sung was allowed to make a timely two-run hit in front of center field, and the game was overturned 2-3 and replaced as it was.

NC's second pitcher Jeon Sa-min also faced a full base crisis again with a walk to Lee Jin-young, An Chi-hong's sacrifice fly, and a ball that hit Choi Jae-hoon's body. Here, Shim Woo-joon hit a two-run timely hit again to the left, quickly widening the gap to 2-6.




Logan is a pitcher recruited by NC by filling the annual salary limit of $1 million (about 1.4 billion won). Starting with the San Diego Padres, he played for the Cleveland Guardians, Baltimore Orioles, and Arizona Diamondbacks, and played a total of 45 big league games (15 starts) and 124 ⅓ innings, recording 5 wins and 11 losses.

He has played 132 innings in 23 games this season, not as bad as innings, but his 6-9 record and 3.89 ERA are disappointing overall. It ranks 15th out of 23 players who have completed the regular innings so far.

It's the 5th time this year! Former major leaguer who filled an annual salary of 1.4 billion won → Quick hook again...The head coach, who has a long way to go, is burning up.
photo courtesy of NC Dinos
What's more regrettable is the lack of stability. This is the fifth time that the so-called 'quick hook' was replaced before the fifth inning of this season. He showed impressive performance by recording five consecutive quality starts (more than six innings and less than three earned runs) in June, but disappointment arose again from July.

In August, following the poor performance of eight runs (six earned) in five ⅔ against the KIA Tigers on the 10th, the team failed to fill the fifth inning against Hanwha.

NC is in a hurry as it is down to 7th place out of 10 clubs. NC manager Lee Ho-joon sighed, saying, `It's not easy to match the 50% winning rate.' As one foreign pitcher who should lead the team is so sluggish, the head coach, who is in his first season in office, is very anxious.





This article was translated by Naver AI translator.