"Korea's Ohtani" followed by "The Second Lee Jung-hoo"... Is it a big hit if just one explodes? Doosan is running the "happiness circuit."
"Korea's Ohtani" followed by "The Second Lee Jung-hoo"... Is it a big hit if just one explodes? Doosan is running the "happiness circuit."
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With Kim Min-seok (20) joining as a trade, Doosan has two outfield prospects with the best potential.
Doosan gave up pitcher Jung Chul-won and infielder Jeon Min-jae to the Lotte Giants and made a 2-3 trade to receive pitcher Choi Woo-in, outfielder Kim Min-seok and Choo Jae-hyun. Among them, the main cards are Jung Chul-won, who was also a "finish," and Kim Min-seok, the "second Lee Jung-hoo."
Jung Cheol-won, who was drafted by Doosan as the 20th pick in the second round of the 2018 Rookie Draft, won the Rookie of the Year award in his first year in 2022 with a 3.10 ERA with 4 wins, 3 losses, 23 saves and 23 holds. Jung Cheol-won, who was selected for the World Baseball Classic (WBC) national team held in March 2023, played the role of a yardstick for Doosan's bullpen with a 3.96 ERA with 67 games, 7 wins, 6 losses, 13 saves and 11 holds in his second year of his first-team debut.
However, Jeong, who started the 2024 season as the closing pitcher, handed over the finishing position to rookie Kim Taek-yeon after a severe slump. He failed to find his footing even after going to the second division several times, but suffered a slump in 36 games with 2 wins, 1 loss, 6 saves and 1 hold with an ERA of 6.40, which weakened his position in the team and was eventually used as a trade card to reinforce the outfield.
Kim Min-seok, who Doosan has been receiving after giving up Jeong Cheol-won, is a promising player who has shown talent enough to earn the nickname "Second Lee Jung-hoo" when he was at Hwimungo. Kim Min-seok, who wore a Lotte uniform as the third player in the first round of the 2023 Rookie Draft, entered the first division of the year and recorded a batting average of 0.255 with three home runs and 39 RBIs in 129 games. He became the eighth high school graduate in the KBO League to achieve 100 hits in his rookie season, proving that his talent is not a lie.
This year's first-team performance was poor with a batting average of 0.211 6 RBIs in 41 games, but he performed well leading Lotte to victory in the 2024 KBO Fall League, which was held for the first time this year after the season. He was named the first MVP of the fall league by playing a big role in the final with four hits and three RBIs from five times at bat.
Doosan has one more outfield resource with as much potential as Kim Min-seok. Kim Dae-han, Kim Min-seok's senior Hwimungoong and the first draft of the 2019 rookie draft, is the main character. He showed talent in both pitching and hitting to the extent that he was called "Korea's Ohtani" when he was in Hwimungo, but strangely, he fell into Doosan's painful finger as he failed to fully bloom his talent on the professional stage.
Kim Dae-han will go to the U.S. to meet Kang Jung-ho with Kim Jae-hwan from the same team in this off-season. Kang is considered a "hitting instructor" for KBO league hitters. This is why expectations are growing that Kim Dae-han, who has been to the U.S., will be able to burst his potential this time. 온라인바카라
Doosan, which has two of the best talents from Hwimungo, can happily imagine the two prospects exploding at once. Assuming that they renew their contracts with foreign Jarrod Young, the two prospects occupy one spot in the outfield and Kim Jae-hwan is committed to hitting in the designated hitter position. Even if each does not occupy a spot, it is also a good thing to see that the two prospects continue to compete in good faith with each other.
It remains to be seen whether Doosan's "happy imagination" can become a reality through this trade.