Power leak? We have enough resources to fill it! KT to watch fall baseball for 6 consecutive years

Power leak? We have enough resources to fill it! KT to watch fall baseball for 6 consecutive years

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The team lost its starting pitcher and its main shortstop. Though the team suffers from a large loss of power, there is no need to worry. It has enough resources to fill the gap. It has also formed a top trio of foreigners. This is a story of KT, which is still considered one of the favorites to win. Wizards look forward to autumn baseball for the sixth consecutive year by minimizing power leakage.안전놀이터

With the start of the stove league, Shim Woo-joon (a four-year total of 5 billion won) as a free agent and Um Sang-baek (a four-year total of 7.8 billion won) as a native starter have been transferred to Hanwha. As proven starting pitchers and key shortstop have been excluded, power leaks have occurred.

Instead, KT brought Heo Kyung-min (a total of 4 billion won (4 million U.S. dollars) for four years to seal the hole in the infield. Some are concerned about the aging of infielders with higher average age. This is not a problem. They certainly have infield resources that showed good performance last season, including Chun Sung-ho and Kwon Dong-jin.
The same goes for starting pitchers, too. KT is known as the "pitcher kingdom." There are two players who were born in the year of the snake even though Um Sang-baek is absent. The hero is Oh Won-seok, who wore KT's uniform in trade with the young ace, So Hyung-joon. It is the year of the blue snake. The two best friends, who were born in 2001, practiced together in Japan before the team spring camp, foreshadowing their solid performance.

"I will hold individual training with Oh Won-seok in Tottori, Japan before the team's spring camp," Cho said in a phone interview with Sports Seoul. "I will focus on building my body in a warm place. I will also strengthen my body before the half pitching including basic weight training and step-by-step catch ball. I want to contribute to my team's victory without getting sick this year."

Cho Hyung-joon, who received KT's first pick in the 2020 rookie draft, secured the starting position from his first year, winning 13 wins, 6 losses and an ERA of 3.86 to win the Rookie of the Year award. Since then, he has been on a roll and played a key role in starting as a "young ace."

He ended the season early on after undergoing Tommy John surgery in 2023. After returning to the mound in September last year, he contributed to KT's fall baseball team. Since he spent more than a year this year, he is committed to returning to his original position as a starting pitcher and playing for the full season.
The Wizards' corps 1st to 5th starting pitchers have been selected this season. Foreigners' one-two punch William Cuevas and Enmanuel de Heysus, native ace Ko Young-pyo, as well as So Hyung-joon and Oh Won-seok. Rookie Yuk Cheong-myung, who gained experience as a starting pitcher last season, is also one of the starting pitchers. Jo Je-seong, who played a key role in the Korean team's starting lineup, will return to the team on June 17 after finishing his military service. So there is no need to worry. KT also has a strong bullpen session led by Park Young-hyun.

Another factor to look forward to is the "best-ever" foreign trio. KT has completed the formation of proven foreign ace Cuevas, former MVP batter Rojas, and left-handed pitcher Heyesus who showed off his presence at Kiwoom last year. No one would disagree that he is the strongest foreign trio among KBO league teams.

We cannot deny that we are out of power. Still, we have a lot of resources. This is why KT, which broke up with Shim Woo-joon and Um Sang-baek, can feel relieved.