Is the ball fast? The growth is fast...Baseball starts in 6th grade → 1R is nominated in 3rd grade in high school → Go-grad rookie final challenge

Is the ball fast? The growth is fast...Baseball starts in 6th grade → 1R is nominated in 3rd grade in high school → Go-grad rookie final challenge

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Manager Yeom Kyung-yeop of the LG Twins picked Kim Young-woo, a promising fastball player, as one of the alternatives for Jang Hyun-sik, who suffered an unexpected injury at the end of the spring camp. Though his position as the closing pitcher has not been determined yet, it is meaningful that he is mentioned as the pitcher who will take responsibility for the back door of a team.바카라사이트

This also shows Kim's rapid growth. Kim started playing baseball in earnest when he was a sixth grader, which is later than others, and has become a candidate to finish a professional baseball team for the first time in eight years. Even though he was trying to adjust his pace in the spring camp, he couldn't hide his fastball of 150 kilometers per hour.

LG had to change its closing pitcher in the process of welcoming the new season. Yoo Young-chan, who successfully transformed into a closing pitcher with 26 saves and an ERA of 2.97 last year, has been sidelined for a considerable period of time due to microfractures in his elbow. Manager Yeom Kyung-yeop predicted Jang Hyun-sik, who was hired as an FA, as a new closing pitcher, but even Jang Hyun-sik is uncertain to join the opening game due to an unexpected injury.

Jang Hyun-sik injured his right ankle while walking on foot on the 16th (Korea Standard Time). X-ray examinations in the U.S. showed that there was no problem with bones, but he decided to return home for a thorough examination in Korea. The results of this examination set the schedule for Jang Hyun-sik's return.

After the end of last year's season, LG rewrote its stove league strategy due to a series of injuries to Ham Deok-joo and Yoo Young-chan. After recruiting Jang from outside, LG tried to resolve the bullpen issue by fostering promising players, but as a series of players were injured, it recruited Kim Kang-ryul, who remained in the FA market. In addition, it brought pitcher Choi Chae-heung as a reward player for Choi Won-tae (Samsung Lions) for transfer to the FA, and tried to strengthen its pitching capability by recruiting Shim Chang-min, who was released from the NC Dinos after testing.

Still, the key was Jang Hyun-sik, who signed a contract with full guarantee of 5.2 billion won. LG is now in a position to prepare for the departure of a player that it had been afraid of at the center of rebuilding the bullpen. Manager Yeom Kyung-yeop, however, foretold an unexpected choice here. He mentioned rookie Kim Young-woo as a closing candidate. "A closing pitcher should have a ball power. A closing pitcher who does not have a ball power is always uneasy. A closing pitcher should be able to push a closing pitcher with strength," Yeom said, paying attention to Kim's fastball.

"My hope is that Kim Young-woo will grow up like Kim Taek-yeon. Me and the coaching staff will all try. The guts on the mound are also okay," he said. Kim Young-woo recorded 151 km per hour with his highest fastball speed in the fourth bullpen pitching of the camp on the 9th. He is a proven player with his speed.

In the camp interview, Kim Young-woo told the story that he didn't start playing baseball properly until he was in the sixth grade of elementary school. "I wanted to do it for a long time, but my parents opposed playing baseball because I tend to study a bit. But I strongly persuaded my parents because I have to do what I really want to do," he said. Although it was a start two to three years later than other players, he became a fastball pitcher who was selected in the first round of the KBO rookie draft before graduating from high school, and now he has emerged as a team's closing candidate.

However, manager Yeom Kyung-yeop did not limit Kim's position to bull pen pitchers. Currently, he sees Kim as a temporary relief pitcher, but he also sees him as a player who can grow into a starting pitcher in the long run. "After one to two years as a midfielder, I know how baseball is going, develop pitches, gain confidence, and gain experience in the first team," Yeom said. "If I join as a starting pitcher, I will be able to adapt much more. It would be great if I succeed as a starting pitcher in the first team just like Ryu did, but it is very rare," he said.