The professional baseball Samsung Lions, who suffered a league-high 38 upset losses, are reinforcing their bullpen pitchers, and the KIA Tigers
who were pushed out of the semi-finals due to their starting lineup collapsing at every crucial moment, are working hard to recruit high-quality foreign pitchers.
The Hanwha Eagles, who suffered from empty balls, established a dynamite batting lineup early on to bombard the opponent's mound.
On the 10th, three weeks before the start of each club's training camp, lower-ranking teams that were unable to play in the fall baseball league are supplementing their weaknesses through thorough analysis. Last year, 9 clubs, excluding Kiwoom Heroes
who ranked last, competed fiercely for the rankings until the end of the season, so they appear to be aiming for a major turnaround by strengthening their power. 카지노사이트랭크
On the 8th, Samsung retained free agent (FA) 'Submarine' Dae-woo Kim for a total of 400 million won for two years (100 million won down payment, 200 million won annual salary, 100 million won in options).
Starting with special closer Kim Jae-yoon, who signed a four-year, 5.8 billion won free agent contract in November last year, veteran Lim Chang-min (2 years, 800 million won), who had shown signs of revival at Kiwoom, was also brought in after persistent courtship.
In the second draft, left-hander Choi Seong-hoon, sidearm Yang Hyun, and Lee Min-ho, who were released from NC Dinos. It's literally a storm.
Samsung, which was last in the league in bullpen ERA (5.16), ended the season in 8th place after repeated games in which the mound was lost due to arson by relief pitchers. Seung-hyun Lee and Jae-ik Lee recorded 14 holds and 11 holds, respectively
but were anxious with an ERA above the mid-3 point range. Even Woo Gyu-min, who was the center of attention, left for KT Wiz. Accordingly, the back door was strengthened with Kim Jae-yoon with a total of 169 saves and Lim Chang-min with 122 saves.
The remaining task is free agency negotiations with Oh Seung-hwan, who achieved the milestone of 400 career saves for the first time in KBO League history and 522 career saves in Korea, the United States and Japan.
A Samsung official said in a phone call with the Seoul Shinmun on the 10th, “We are in the process of reducing the difference in position with Oh Seung-hwan.
He has a strong will to remain with the team, so we are negotiating positively,” he explained.
6th place KIA, who unfortunately missed out on the wild card game by one game to the Doosan Bears, added foreign pitcher Will Crowe for a total of $1 million.
Crow, who uses a fast ball of 153 km per hour and a variety of breaking balls, is a special resource who played in the starting rotation for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the Major League Baseball (MLB) in 2021 and was responsible for 116 and two-thirds innings
the second most in the team. am. At that time, he had 26 games (25 starting games), 4 wins, 8 losses, and an average ERA of 5.48.
KIA's team batting average (0.275) and relief ERA (3.81) were second only to the winning team LG Twins, so if the starting lineup
which was ranked 9th in ERA (4.38), rebounds, a higher ranking can be expected. KIA is looking for a right-handed pitcher with excellent skills, considering combinations with domestic left-handed pitchers.
Hanwha, ranked 9th, recruited outfielder Jonathan Peraza and infielder Ahn Chi-hong in November last year.
They moved quickly to improve key batting indicators, which were at the bottom, such as the team batting average of 0.241, slugging percentage of 0.350, on-base percentage of 0.324, and scoring percentage of 0.240.
The addition of Noh Si-hwan, the home run and RBI leader in the 2023 season, veteran slugger Chae Eun-seong, Ahn Chi-hong
who has the advantage of consistent play, and Peraza, who makes strong hits with a fast bat speed, has raised expectations for the upcoming season to the fullest.