Hanwha Um Sang-baek, this year's annual salary of 900 million won is still not too late → What if you do it like last year's L Dong-won? Samsung War Confirms Resurrection Embers

Sep 09, 2025

Hanwha Um Sang-baek, this year's annual salary of 900 million won is still not too late → What if you do it like last year's L Dong-won? Samsung War Confirms Resurrection Embers
Hanwha Um Sang-baek, who finished pitching scoreless in the top of the eighth inning at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 2nd, is heading to the dugout. Daejeon = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.09.02/



Hanwha Um Sang-baek, this year's annual salary of 900 million won is still not too late → What if you do it like last year's L Dong-won? Samsung War Confirms Resurrection Embers
Hanwha Um Sang-baek, who finished pitching scoreless in the top of the eighth inning at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 2nd, is heading to the dugout. Daejeon = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.09.02/
If you do it like last year L Dongwon?

Hanwha Eagles Um Sang-baek left a very disappointing report card in the first season of the mega FA contract. But there is still a chance to make up. The postseason is left. What if he does as much as Hernandez, a foreign pitcher of the LG Twins, in 2024.

For now, the spark of the revival has been confirmed. Um Sang-baek took the mound in relief against Daegu Samsung on the 7th and allowed no runs in the first ⅓. It raised expectations that he could be responsible for one inning for the match.




Hanwha has begun to check whether Um Sang-baek can be used as a must-win team in the postseason. It's off to a good start. It is a scoreless game for two consecutive games. On the 2nd, he was in a good situation with 10 points ahead of the match against KIA in Daejeon. He went one scoreless inning. The match against Samsung was chasing 1-3. In the future, the importance of input point is expected to gradually increase.

This would not have been the picture Hanwha drew when recruiting Um Sang-baek.

Hanwha signed a four-year total of 7.8 billion won with FA Um Sang-baek after the end of last season. The down payment is 3.4 billion won, the total annual salary is 3.25 billion won, and incentives are 1.15 billion won. Hanwha hoped that Um Sang-baek would take over as the second starter in Korea after Ryu Hyun-jin. In 2025, the annual salary alone is 900 million won.




Coldly, this year's regular season is a failure. Um Sang-baek was 1-7 with a 7.18 ERA in 72 ⅔ innings in 21 games. As a starter, he has a 7.06 ERA in 16 games and 65 innings. In nine games, more than half of them, they went down less than five times.

Hanwha sent Um Sang-baek to the second division in early August. As the September expansion entry was applied, Um Sang-baek was called up.

Hanwha Um Sang-baek, this year's annual salary of 900 million won is still not too late → What if you do it like last year's L Dong-won? Samsung War Confirms Resurrection Embers
A game between the LG Twins and the Hanwha Eagles at Jamsil Stadium on the 9th. In the top of the second inning, Hanwha starter Um Sang-baek is coming down from the mound without catching a single out count. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.09/
Hanwha Um Sang-baek, this year's annual salary of 900 million won is still not too late → What if you do it like last year's L Dong-won? Samsung War Confirms Resurrection Embers
A game between the LG Twins and the Hanwha Eagles at Jamsil Stadium on the 9th. Hanwha Um Sang-baek and Moon Dong-ju are watching the game. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.09/
Hanwha manager Kim Kyung-moon said he would use Um Sang-baek as the middle player with the postseason in mind. Manager Kim Kyung-moon said, `It's not long. I'll throw an inning in the middle and consult with the pitching coach depending on the content." I'm not saying I'm going to use it as a long man who puts it behind the starting line. In other words, he wants to see the possibility of a must-win team.

He showed hope through two games. If Um Sang-baek plays a strong role as an intermediate pitcher in the postseason, the slump in the regular season can be relieved to some extent. Hernandez was dispatched from Game 1 to Game 5 of the semi-playoff last year, blocking seven scoreless innings and earning two saves with one hold. He also earned the nickname 'El Dongwon' by throwing his arms out. Based on this, he succeeded in renewing his contract.

Um Sang-baek also has a lot of experience in fall baseball. We played the 2022 semi-playoff, the 2023 playoffs and the Korean Series, and the 2024 semi-playoff. It can be a great help to Hanwha's mound, which has taken the postseason stage for the first time in seven years.



Reporter Han Dong-hoon dhhan@sportschosun.com



This article was translated by Naver AI translator.