'Emergency' Kim Sung-wook-NC renewal 'Red Light'... Coach Lee Ho-joon said, "2025 center fielder Park Gun-woo leans on corner outfield geniuses and Park Si-won."
'Emergency' Kim Sung-wook-NC renewal 'Red Light'... Coach Lee Ho-joon said, "2025 center fielder Park Gun-woo leans on corner outfield geniuses and Park Si-won."
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NC Dinos manager Lee Ho-joon (49) announced his plan to form the outfield for the 2025 season.
Coach Lee Ho-joon talked about his plans for the 2025 season in a live broadcast on the NC club's official YouTube on the 11th. Asked who must play 144 games, coach Lee replied, "It's Park Gun-woo. I talked to Park Gun-woo. There is a high probability that Park Gun-woo will see center field next season."토토사이트
"Left and right field can be replaced when they are winning big in the eighth and ninth innings, but center field should be balanced. If the center field is excluded, the outfield will collapse. I told him that while eating. Instead, he said he would let me rest through a whole game when I rest."
FA Kim Sung-wook was not in Lee's outfield plan. Of course, the possibility cannot be ruled out that he intentionally avoided mentioning the situation when the team had not signed a contract yet. However, Lee seemed to have already planned the scenario when Kim was away.
Kim had a batting average of 0.204 with 17 homers, 60 RBIs and 10 steals in 129 games during the 2024 season. He started 94 games out of 129 games, making him the second-most among team outfielders. Although he revealed weaknesses in batting precision, he was not small enough to hit the second-most homers and fourth-most RBIs in his team.
Meanwhile, Park only played 15 innings in three games last year. He once played 621 innings in 77 games as a center fielder in 2022, the first season of his transfer to NC Dinosaurs, but he has mainly played in right field for the past two seasons. Using Park as a full-time center fielder means that the existing center fielder has to be emptied.
Kwon Hee-dong, who hit .300 with 13 homers and 77 RBIs in 123 games as the center hitter of his team last year, will remain in the NC Dinos' outfield under the assumption that he will remain in the left field. Lee Ho-joon had already decided on the remaining spot for the corner outfield. "Left and right field can be replaced in the middle. That's why I have high expectations on Chun Jae-hwan and Park Si-won," Lee said.
Choi had a batting average of 0.282 with one homer, 14 RBIs and seven steals in 65 games last year. Although there were few samples, he has consistently maintained a batting average in the mid-to-late 20% range for four seasons since his debut as a pro. His OPS for the 2024 season was 0.721, showing better batting productivity than Kim Sung-wook (0.671). Park Si-won is also a left-handed hitter from the second round of the 2020 rookie draft.
As a result, manager Lee Ho-joon's remarks further reduced Kim Sung-wook's position. There was also a red light in the renewal of the contract with NC.