Park Jin-man officially launches 2+1 year contract with Samsung for up to 2.3 billion won → tries to win the Korean Series next year
Nov 03, 2025
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Samsung Lions manager Park Jin-man (49), who led the great fall baseball, renewed his contract. Samsung officially announced the renewal of coach Park Jin-man's contract on the morning of the 3rd.
The contract period is 3 years (2+1 years) up to 2.3 billion won (down payment of 500 million won, annual salary of 500 million won, annual incentive of 300 million won).
As a result, coach Park Jin-man will challenge to win the Korean Series next season by completing the generational change with the players who have grown together as the team's main players.
The team's future and achievements over the past three years have been recognized for catching two rabbits.
Park Jin-man, who was appointed as the 16th manager of the Samsung Lions ahead of the 2023 season after serving as the head coach and acting head coach of the Futures League, has transformed prospects such as Lee Jae-hyun and Kim Young-woong, who have coached since he was the head coach of the Futures League, into a team with a future in harmony with the old and new. Based on his strong defense as a former top shortstop, Zaki gave opportunities to big guns that fit baseball and the park factor and added color to his home run squad.
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In his first year in office, he slowed to 8th place, but despite his lack of power in 2024, he ended the season in 2nd place, beating the previous year's champion LG Twins in the playoffs and causing a stir in advancing the team to the Korean Series for the first time in nine years. Young bullpen pitchers such as Choi Ji-kwang, Kim Moo-shin (former Kim Yoon-soo) and Lee Jae-hee, who were expected to fill the bullpen's weakness this season, suffered ups and downs amid the injury loss of veteran Baek Jung-hyun, but he succeeded in entering fall baseball for the second consecutive year by raising the ranking from 8th to 4th at the end of the season.
Although stopped in the playoffs, Samsung was the star of the fall, which showed the best fighting spirit of the postseason.
He succeeded in advancing to the playoffs by winning a series of wild-card games and semi-playoffs. He threatened Hanwha to the end with two wins and two losses and did not give up on advancing to the Korean Series for the second consecutive year.
2026 is the season when the generational change of young Samsung, which head coach Park put his heart and soul into, will be completed.
Coach Park's new leadership and strategic flexibility, which has been guaranteed a new term, are also expected to be strengthened. The eyes that read big trends have also evolved, such as waking the team up and awakening the players through short and concise messages at each crisis.
Through three interviews this season, he woke up Diaz, who was sluggish at the beginning of the season, awakened the eighth-ranked team, and provided the beginning of a miraculous reversal drama by blowing his fighting spirit into a team on the verge of elimination from Game 3 0-4 in the playoffs.
Now it's time to unfold the final episode of the drama.
Coach Park Jin-man, who has renewed his contract, will join his team's Okinawa closing camp, which began on the 31st of last month, on the 4th.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
