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| Lotte and KT held at Sajik Stadium in Busan on the 27th. KT's batting squad. Busan = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.06.27/ |
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Will KT Wiz choose another power reinforcement.
KT announced two FA contracts on the 25th. He signed a three-year contract with Kim Hyun-soo (38) for 5 billion won (a down payment of 3 billion won and an annual salary of 2 billion won), and then recruited Choi Won-joon (28) for a four-year total of 4.8 billion won (a down payment of 2.2 billion won, an annual salary of 2 billion won, and incentives of 600 million won).
After the end of this season, KT stepped up as a big player in the FA market. As he failed to enter the fall baseball league for the first time in six years, he properly expressed his will to strengthen his power and actively approached the big-time fielders in the FA market.
He contacted Park Chan-ho and Park Hae-min, but signed contracts with Doosan and LG, respectively. Kang Baek-ho, who was a member of KT, left the team after signing a contract with Hanwha.
In the meantime, he recruited Kim Hyun-soo, who had both leadership and batting skills, and immediately succeeded in embracing outfielder Choi Won-joon.
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Coincidentally, both Kim Hyun-soo and Choi Won-joon are outfielders. In the case of Kim Hyun-soo, it is said that he focused a little more on strengthening the batting, but in the case of Choi Won-joon, defense is also a choice considered to some extent. Choi came out mainly in center field. KT has a certain center fielder resource, Bae Jeong-dae (30).
Choi Won-joon and Bae Jeong-dae are only two years apart. a situation in which traffic needs to be cleared to some extent. There is also a way to coexist by using it as a center fielder and corner outfield. However, considering that Park Hae-min signed a four-year contract for a total of 6.5 billion won this season and Choi Won-joon also stamped for four years and 4.8 billion won, it can be used as another power reinforcement card.
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| The 2025 KBO All-Star Game held at Hanwha Life Ball Park in Daejeon on the 12th is hitting. Daejeon = Reporter's book@sportschosun.com/2025.07.12/ |
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Bae Jeong-dae only played in 99 games this season due to injuries, but he showed strong performance in the match as the nickname of 「The Man Who Ends」. This year's scoring batting average was 281, far exceeding the season's batting average. Although the pace has dropped in recent years, he played all 144 games in three years from 2020 to 2022, and showed good performance in hitting and running to the point where he recorded double-digit home runs-stealing in both 2020 and 2021. His defense is outstanding even in the league.
It is not easy to obtain compliance center field resources in the league. In fact, there are clubs who have inquired about trades to recruit center field this year, and multiple off-season clubs have entered the race to recruit Park Hae-min.
KT is able to open up various possibilities by recruiting Choi Won-joon. With the recruitment of three external FA, 'FA Market' is over, but once again, it has a knife handle that can change the game of power.
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| The KBO League KT Wiz and LG Twins match held at Suwon KT Wiz Park on the 24th. KT's allocation team is heading to the dugout. Suwon = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.06.24/ |
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
