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The Doosan-KT match at KT Wiz Park in Suwon on the 9th. Kwak Bin took the mound as a starting pitcher for Doosan Bears. Suwon = Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.9/ |
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Kwak Bin leaves the mound in the top of the sixth inning of the game between Samsung and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 26th. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.08.26/ |
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Kwak Bin leaves the mound in the top of the sixth inning of the game between Samsung and Doosan at Jamsil Baseball Stadium on the 26th. Jamsil= Reporter's wook@sportschosun.com/2025.08.26/ |
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"The ball is the best in his professional life."
Kwak Bin of the Doosan Bears, who won the most wins last year, has only won three games this season. He started in June due to injury, but is only 3-6 with a 4.48 ERA in 16 games.
The hit rate is not very high at 239%. Among the starting pitchers who filled the regular innings, only six pitchers, including Hanwha Ponce (0.192), SSG Anderson (0.197), Hanwha Weiss (0.200), NC Riley (0.210), Doosan Zachlog (0.226), and KIA Nail (0.227), showed better hit rates than Kwak Bin.The on-base allowance per inning (WHIP) is also not bad at 1.29. As expected, about 12 pitchers had better WHIP than Kwak Bin among pitchers who filled the regular innings.
But it certainly seems problematic that the grades are not good.
At the KT Wiz match held in Suwon on the 9th, Kwak Bin stopped the game with two runs until the sixth inning, but collapsed in the seventh inning, eventually becoming a losing pitcher with five hits (one home run), one walk, seven strikeouts, and five runs in six ⅓ innings.
Doosan's acting manager Cho Sung-hwan tried to find him in pitching design and crisis response.
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The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the Doosan Bears at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 20th. Kwak Bin of Doosan is pitching hard. Daejeon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.20/ |
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A game between the Doosan Bears and the NC Dinos at Jamsil Stadium on the 14th. Kwak Bin of the Doosan Bears is catching his breath. Jamsil = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.14/ |
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The game between the Hanwha Eagles and the Doosan Bears at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 20th. Kwak Bin of the Doosan Bears is catching his breath. Daejeon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.08.20/ |
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In the game against the LG Twins at Jamsil Stadium on the 10th, Cho said, "(My feeling and the analysis team say similar things)," adding, "First of all, (Kwak) Bin's current ball is the top in his professional career." The pitch of the fastball and the angle of the curve are numerically so good that there is nothing wrong with Kwak's ball.
Then "The occasional throwing ball was also cleared up. "There are a lot of good things about it," Cho said. `The analysis team talks about pitching design. It would be nice to add more sophistication. The figures are good, and my control has been cleared.... Now I'm checking how to design the ball and how to fight it."
And he said that the disadvantage of throwing well and collapsing when a crisis comes should be fixed.
Acting Cho said, `It bothers Kwak Bin whether he can overcome a crisis or not if he leads well,' adding, `We have to think about it, but if Kwak Bin wants to establish himself as a top class, he must make up for it."
"There is no problem with the ball or overall figures," Cho said. "How can we make use of this good ball?" I think I have to think deeply about it."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.